Covid 19

Covid-19 may increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths for three years after an infection, study suggests

CNN — Covid-19 could be a powerful risk factor for heart attacks and strokes for as long as three years after an infection, a large new study suggests. The study was published Wednesday in the medical journal Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. It relied on medical records from roughly a quarter of a million people …

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Egypt Independent October 13, 2024

FDA signs off on updated Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech

CNN — As a summer wave of Covid-19 continues to hit the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday signed off on updated Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech. Moderna and Pfizer said updated mRNA shots will be available in pharmacies and clinics in the days ahead. “Vaccination continues to be the …

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Egypt Independent August 24, 2024

FDA may greenlight updated Covid-19 vaccines as soon as this week, sources say

CNN — The US Food and Drug Administration is poised to sign off as soon as this week on updated Covid-19 vaccines targeting more recently circulating strains of the virus, according to two sources familiar with the matter, as the country experiences its largest summer wave in two years. The agency is expected to greenlight …

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Egypt Independent August 19, 2024

A summer wave of Covid-19 has arrived in the US

CNN — Covid-19 levels have been rising in the United States for weeks as new variants drive what’s become an annual summer surge. Covid-19 surveillance has been scaled back significantly since the US public health emergency ended more than a year ago — individual cases are no longer counted, and severe outcomes are based on …

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Egypt Independent July 1, 2024

New virus variants threaten a summer Covid-19 wave, but experts say the risk remains uncertain

CNN — Covid-19 levels are about the lowest they’ve ever been in the United States, but another new crop of virus variants once again threatens to disrupt the downward trend as the country heads into summer. KP.2 — one of the so-called FLiRT variants — has overtaken JN.1 to become the dominant coronavirus variant in …

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Egypt Independent May 19, 2024

The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines

CNN — For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the United States will contain only three strains, and the change happened in part because of Covid-19. On …

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Egypt Independent March 7, 2024

You can get Covid-19 and flu vaccines at the same time, but should you? What the science says

CNN — With holiday season underway, you may be realizing that you forgot to get your Covid-19 and flu vaccines, and now you’ll be sitting across the table from your elderly relatives. The good news is that it’s not too late to get your shots, but what about knocking them both out at the same …

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Egypt Independent November 28, 2023

Older adults still make up most Covid-19 hospitalizations, CDC report says, but concern grows over lack of vaccination

CNN — Older adults have accounted for nearly two-thirds of Covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States this year, posing “a continued public health threat,” says a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From January through August, adults 65 and older accounted for about 63 percent of all Covid-19 hospitalizations, 61 percent of intensive care …

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Egypt Independent October 10, 2023

Nobel Prize in medicine won by two scientists for ‘groundbreaking findings’ on mRNA Covid-19 vaccines

CNN — This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their work on mRNA vaccines, which were crucial in curtailing the spread of Covid-19. The Nobel Prize committee announced the prestigious honor, seen as the pinnacle of scientific achievement, in Sweden on Monday. It praised …

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Egypt Independent October 2, 2023

University of Pennsylvania duo wins Nobel prize for work that led to COVID vaccine

Two scientists won the Nobel prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The award was given to Katalin Kariko, a professor at Sagan’s … Continued

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The New Daily October 2, 2023

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