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Kids hospitalized with COVID-19 hits record high, data reveals

There are some 1,900 children in the United States hospitalized with infectious-disease, according to updated data logged Monday by the US Department of Health and Human Services — setting a new pandemic record for kids. That figure represented about 2.4% of the nation’s total coronavirus hospitalizations as of Saturday, according …

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Europe eyes arthritis drug for COVID-19 cases

AMSTERDAM – The European Medicines Agency has started an accelerated review process to determine if a common pain-management drug might help people hospitalized with severe infectious-disease, months after the drug was granted an emergency use authorization in the U.S. In a statement Monday, the EU drug regulator said it was …

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FDA greenlights COVID-19 booster vaccine for some immunocompromised patients

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s infectious-disease infectious-diseaseto authorize a booster shot for certain immunocompromised patients. HIV and cancer patients, organ transplant recipients and those taking immunosuppressant drugs comprise about 2.7% of the U.S. adult population.  infectious-disease Growing evidence had suggested select immunocompromised …

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WHO says COVID-19 origin needs more studies as top expert's lab 'concern' made public for first time

The world-health-organization” target=”_blank”>World Health Organization’s< appears to have contradicted his February statement dismissing the infectious-disease – admitting that it was not “extremely unlikely” as the WHO said at the time, but “probable.” On Thursday, the WHO in a new statement admitted that the lab-leak was not “extremely unlikely” after all. …

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CDC: Kids’ long COVID often involves fatigue, headache

Children experiencing lingering symptoms weeks to months after initial infectious-disease infection, or so-called long COVID, most often face fatigue and headache, Dr. rochelle-walensky” target=”_blank”>Rochelle Walensky< In a recent statement from Dr. Amanda Morrow and Dr. Laura Malone, co-directors of the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Post COVID-19 Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic, long COVID …

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Walensky: FDA working to OK Pfizer, Moderna COVID booster shots for certain immunocompromised patients

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is rapidly approaching a potential authorization for a third dose of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s infectious-disease infectious-disease among certain immunocompromised patients, within the next day, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday. “Emerging data show that certain …

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