Wellness Blog: Covid-19

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Monoclonal antibodies are laboratory-made proteins that are administered to patients to fight off harmful pathogens such as viruses, like SARS-CoV-2. Led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, the laboratory study tested...

Similarly in the United Kingdom, the hospital admission rate among people who went to the emergency room with Omicron was about a third of what it was for Delta, per a technical briefing issued by the U.K. Health Security Agency in late-December of 2021. As of early...

Updated Booster Guidance for 16-and-17-year-olds On December 9, the Food and Drug Administration authorized third booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for 16-and-17-year-olds. Hours later CDC Director Walensky signed off on third shots for the age...

Study Findings A small study out of South Africa published online on December 7th offered a first look at how well people immunized with Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine might fare against the new Covid variant, Omicron. After testing Omicron against blood samples from...

With the arrival of the Delta and Omicron variants, we are not just yet finished with the COVID-19 pandemic. Sure, the wide distribution of vaccines has greatly helped in our fight to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. But as...

Omicron COVID-19 variant possibly looks more like the common cold. It looks like Omicron may have caught a cold. Seriously, researchers say the Omicron variant may have acquired at least one of its mutations from another virus, more likely the common cold, or possibly...