COVID-19

BALTIMORE — COVID-19 vaccinations are safe and recommended, even for women who are pregnant or lactating, according to a presenter at a late-breaking session at the ACOG Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting.

BALTIMORE — The odds of preterm birth in the American Indian/Alaska Native population in the central New York region rose significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported at the ACOG Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting.

Patients who reported cognitive deficits in the first month of a COVID-19 diagnosis were more likely to develop long COVID than those without perceived deficits, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

The current understanding of long COVID’s pathogenesis may be better served by looking to other diseases and syndromes, particularly fibromyalgia, according to a speaker at the 2023 Biologic Therapies Summit.

In 2020, heart disease remained among the leading causes of death, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have exacerbated preexisting CVD morbidity-related racial and ethnic disparities.

Higher dose methylprednisolone and low-dose dexamethasone treatments in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia showed similar 28-day mortality rates, according to study results published in European Respiratory Journal.

Additional COVID-19 vaccine doses can occasionally “bully” a humoral response in patients who are immunocompromised, according to a presenter at the 2023 Biologic Therapies Summit.

Transplant recipients with donor hearts from people who had active COVID-19 at time of death had worse 6-month and 1-year survival outcomes than those who had hearts from donors recovered from or without COVID-19, researchers reported.

Communication between rheumatologists and patients with immune-mediated conditions will be essential for navigating COVID-19 in the endemic phase, according to a presenter at the Biologic Therapies Summit.

A review of the CDC’s performance during the COVID-19 pandemic found that the agency was slow to share science and data, struggled to develop practical policies and fell short of prioritizing public health communications.