Philanthropies are funding studies of cheap, existing medications like the antidepressant fluvoxamine — sold under the brand name Luvox — as COVID treatments./Wikimedia Commons
A few scientists say that two small studies indicate that a decades-old antidepressant that costs $10 for a two-week course could be used to fight COVID.
“We need to take care of the problem everywhere to be able to take care of it anywhere,” says Dr. Mark Feinberg, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
Mar 22, 2021
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President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris./Shutterstock
With three vaccines — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — now authorized for emergency use in the United States, there seems to be hope that the pandemic’s end may be in sight.
Mar 17, 2021
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COVID-19 symptoms can last for months./Conscious Design on Unsplash
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are experiencing what is being called “long COVID” — a pattern of prolonged symptoms following an acute bout of the disease.
Mar 10, 2021
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Stephanie Salazar-Rodriguez is paying about $10,000 a year for premiums and is afraid she will have to run up her credit card or have to find extra work to afford it.Rachel Woolf for Kaiser Health News
Scientists say unprepared immune cells appear to be responding to the coronavirus with a devastating release of chemicals, inflicting damage that may endure long after the threat has been eliminated.
Mar 4, 2021
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Pictured is a CDC scientist preparing a patient sample for testing.
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Federal rules around who can be told about the variant cases are so confusing that public health officials may merely know the county where a case has emerged.