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February 19, 2022
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HCWs with positive swab test more likely to experience long COVID

HCWs with positive swab test more likely to experience long COVID

Health care workers with a nasopharyngeal swab positive for SARS-CoV-2 were more likely to report long COVID symptoms after 6 months than negative controls in a study conducted in more than 20 Swiss hospitals.

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February 18, 2022
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Highly neutralizing plasma rapidly clears SARS-CoV-2 in hospitalized patients

Highly neutralizing plasma rapidly clears SARS-CoV-2 in hospitalized patients

Convalescent plasma with high neutralizing antibodies produced a strong and rapid viral clearance when administered to patients hospitalized with COVID-19, according to recent data.

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February 18, 2022
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More data show COVID-19 boosters are effective against variants

More data show COVID-19 boosters are effective against variants

Researchers evaluated the immune responses of a few dozen people who received three doses of a COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccine and found, as other have, that a booster shot can protect people infected with a variant from becoming very ill.

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February 17, 2022
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Intramuscular sotrovimab noninferior to IV administration for COVID-19

Intramuscular sotrovimab noninferior to IV administration for COVID-19

A 500 mg intramuscular injection of sotrovimab was noninferior to an IV infusion of the investigational monoclonal antibody for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in a phase 3 trial, investigators reported.

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February 15, 2022
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Woman with COVID develops bilateral periorbital pain, edema

Woman with COVID develops bilateral periorbital pain, edema

A 27-year-old woman was urgently transferred to Tufts Medical Center, from an outside hospital, for painful worsening facial cellulitis and pansinusitis. Her medical history was notable only for frontal bone fracture in 2001.

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February 15, 2022
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Solid teams help small practices navigate safely in uncertain times

Solid teams help small practices navigate safely in uncertain times

Team cohesion and effective employee retention strategies allowed small ophthalmology practices to rise to the challenges of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and grow even stronger in some cases.

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February 13, 2022
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‘Listen before you talk’: CDC’s Walensky addresses vaccine hesitancy

‘Listen before you talk’: CDC’s Walensky addresses vaccine hesitancy

CDC Director Rochelle P. Walenksy, MD, MPH, had some advice for combating vaccine hesitancy in the United States.

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February 11, 2022
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COVID-19 boosters wane over time but remain protective, study finds

COVID-19 boosters wane over time but remain protective, study finds

The effectiveness of a COVID-19 booster shot waned over time, but the extra dose continued to protect against hospitalization at 4 months and beyond, according to data collected during the omicron surge and reported Friday in MMWR.

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February 11, 2022
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CDC adds omicron subvariant BA.2 to online tracker

CDC adds omicron subvariant BA.2 to online tracker

The CDC has begun reporting the proportion of COVID-19 cases in the United States that are caused by the omicron subvariant BA.2.

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February 09, 2022
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Prior infection protects against variants, including omicron, study finds

Prior infection protects against variants, including omicron, study finds

Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection protects against symptomatic reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 variants, including omicron, national data from Qatar showed.

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