Covid-19: Convalescent Plasma No Benefit Over Placebo for Severe Disease
No efficacy in Covid-19 pneumonia Convalescent plasma did not show benefit over placebo in the...
Coronavirus Headlines
Need a COVID-19 Nurse? That’ll Be $8,000 a Week
A shortage of nurses has turned hospital staffing into a sort of national bidding war, with hospitals willing to pay exorbitant wages to secure the nurses they need. That threatens to shift the supply of nurses toward more affluent areas.
Parents Complain That Pediatricians, Wary of COVID, Shift Sick Kids to Urgent Care
Referrals of children to urgent care clinics or emergency rooms have become so prevalent that the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with interim guidance on how practices can safely continue to see patients. The academy recommended that pediatricians strive “to provide care for the same variety of visits that they provided prior to the public health emergency.”
Covid-19: Hydroxychloroquine—Nope, Still Not a Viable Treatment
This time it fails as a prophylaxis Yet another study fails to find a place for hydroxychloroquine...
Covid-19: Masks Not Effective if Few Wear Them
No clear benefit with face coverings found in controversial Danish trial, but results are hardly...
What Biden Can Do to Combat COVID Right Now
Although President-elect Joe Biden is free to meet with people who will be vital to carry out his administration’s fight against COVID, he and his transition team are blocked from conferring with federal officials because the Trump administration refuses to acknowledge Biden won the election. That could have a critical impact on Biden’s efforts to help fight the coronavirus.
FDA Issues EUA to Baricitinib Plus Remdesivir for COVID-19
FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Emergency use authorization was issued for...
Covid-19: FDA Issues EUA for Regeneron’s Monoclonal Antibody Tx
Casirivimab/imdevimab authorized for ’mild to moderate’ Covid-19 Casirivimab and imdevimab, a...
Pfizer/BioNTech Submit EUA for Covid-19 Vaccine
Moderna is expected to follow shortly with its EUA submission As expected, Pfizer, Inc., along...
Covid-19:Viral Shedding From Virus Can Be Prolonged, But Infection Window is Not
No live virus detected beyond 9 days in symptomatic patients SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding lasted as...
Covid-19: AstraZeneca Vax Up to 90% Effective in Interim Analysis
Lower dose appears more effective than higher dose in preventing infection, but the ’why’ is...
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Transition Troubles Mount as COVID Spreads
COVID-19 is spreading rapidly around the U.S. even before Thanksgiving promises to accelerate the trend. There are two promising vaccine candidates, but because President Donald Trump still refuses to concede the election and is holding up the official transition, President-Elect Joe Biden and his team cannot access plans for distributing those vaccines. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
