corticosteroids for Covid-19 patients after data from some 11, 000 patients showed they cut the risk of

-19 treatment. The first is a class of steroids called corticosteroids, recommended in September 2020 by the UN

A drug usually used to treat rheumatoidarthritis reduces the risk of people in hospital with severe Covid-19 dying. The benefit was on top of that provided by dexamethasone and tocilizumab, two other anti-inflammatory treatments previously shown to reduce the risk of death in these patients. The University of Oxford-led Recovery trial has been trialling a range of potential coronavirus treatments for patients admitted to hospital for Covid-19 since March 2020. Today’s results not only show that

By Reuters Staff3 Min Read( Reuters)-Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: FILE PHOTO: A medical worker prepares to administer a test at the Bondi Beach drive-through coronavirus disease( COVID-19) testing centre in the wake of new positive cases in Sydney, Australia, June 17, 2021.... REUTERS/ Loren Elliott/ File Photo Tests show Chinese shots less effective on Delta variantAntibodies triggered by two Chinese COVID-19 vaccines are less effective against the Delta varian

Some health departments in the D.C. region are beginning to offer third doses of coronavirus vaccines to immunocompromised residents, after federal officials authorized the move last week for this small group. Support our journalism.... He estimated that there are a couple hundred thousand Maryland residents who will be eligible.“ We have multiple channels — physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, local health departments, ” he said, noting the locations where the shots will be administered.... Thi

So you took the first COVID-19 vaccine that was offered to you and — if it was one of the two mRNA vaccines available in the U.S.— you went back on schedule to get the second jab.... The FDA’s move led the CDC this week to update its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations.... But the agency’s language doesn’t actually recommend the booster for all those newly eligible....

The emergence of severe acute respiratory--syndrome coronavirus 2( SARS-CoV-2) in late 2019 led to the third international outbreak caused by a high consequence coronavirus in the past two decades, and the first confirmed coronavirus pandemic in recorded history.... Although SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome( MERS)-CoV strongly hinted at the potential danger of coronaviruses, few imagined the scale of the global impact of SARS-CoV-2.... Here we discuss some of the remarkable aspect