- Interim CDC analysis of severe allergic reactions in people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccineAnaphylaxis is a serious allergic reaction that can become life threatening. Here are key points about anaphylaxis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
“… - Anaphylaxis is a serious allergic reaction that can become life threatening. Here are key points about anaphylaxis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
“… - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has extensive guidance about the rollout of the COVID vaccine program. A summary of the CDC’s advice to vaccination sites is as follows:
- The vaccines previously reported on in this issue of TreatmentUpdate use messenger RNA. However, for its COVID-19 vaccine, the Janssen corporation is using a modified form of a virus called an…
- As this issue of TreatmentUpdate went to press, the Janssen corporation released the interim data from its phase III clinical trial.
- Molnupiravir is an experimental antiviral drug under development to assess its effects in people infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes symptoms…
- Scientists have been trying to repurpose drugs that have already been approved for one purpose for a new use—as treatment or prevention for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes symptoms called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In many people who become infected with this virus, perhaps as many as 40%…
- Interferons are an important part of the immune system’s defence against viruses. Research suggests that SARS-CoV-2-infected cells can make proteins that suppress the production of interferons.…
- In lab experiments with cells and in some people, infection with SARS-CoV-2 is associated with decreased production of proteins called interferons. These proteins help cells resist viral infections…
- SARS-CoV-2 causes no or mild symptoms in most people it infects, but a substantial minority develop symptoms that are serious, including difficulty breathing, cough and, in some cases, pneumonia.