COVID-19

Patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are less likely to experience long COVID symptoms, compared with unvaccinated patients, according to data.

Dazodalibep has successfully improved disease activity and symptoms two patient populations with Sjögren’s syndrome in a phase 2 trial, according to a press release from Horizon Therapeutics.

Children hospitalized with COVID-19 who had a secondary viral infection like respiratory syncytial virus or rhinovirus were around twice as likely to have severe respiratory illness, a study found.

A population-based survey of U.S. adults who previously reported having COVID-19 showed a high burden of long COVID, with some reporting symptoms more than 12 months after their initial infection.

Indira Gurubhagavatula, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Penn Medicine, spoke with Healio about the relationship between COVID-19 and sleep.

Health officials said a safety signal detected by a national surveillance system is “very unlikely” to represent a “true clinical risk” for stroke among older people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 booster.

Covering N95 filtering facepiece respirators with a face mask can cause respirator leaking and failure, according to a study among health care workers.

Medicare beneficiaries who received care from clinics participating in Maryland’s advanced primary care program had lower rates of COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths than those receiving care at nonparticipating sites, data show.

In a study of patients with COVID-19 who underwent cardiac MRI, among the signs of cardiac involvement in COVID-19 were cardiac symptoms, ECG abnormalities and cardiac biomarker elevations.

Intermittent fasting was associated with a lower risk for COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality and could be used as a complementary therapy to vaccination, according to researchers.