Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, on Monday encouraged “all Republican men” to get vaccinated against COVID-19, according to CNN. Recent polls have indicated that many men who identify as Republican are skeptical of getting the vaccine and don’t intend to […]
Oprah Winfrey is feeling "blessed" to be fully vaccinated. In a personal essay for her new digital platform Oprah Daily, the media mogul, 67, reflected on the profound relief and joy she experienced after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. "Stedman [Graham] and I were blessed enough to be able to create our own bubble at home […]
The emergence of a novel human coronavirus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. SARS-CoV-2 causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a heterogeneous disease. Due to its rapid spread across the world within a short period, by March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared […]
Patients treated with infliximab for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) showed significantly reduced response to COVID-19 antibodies, compared with those treated with vedolizumab, according to data from nearly 7,000 patients. Although anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) drugs are routinely used for patients with IBD, the impact of their immune-suppressing properties on protective immunity to COVID-19 is unknown, […]
Democrats, newly in control of Congress and the White House, are united behind an idea that Republican lawmakers and major drugmakers fiercely oppose: empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate the prices of brand-name drugs covered by Medicare. But they do not have enough votes without Republican support in the Senate for […]
During the pandemic, most of us have adopted Zoom calls rather than in-person meetings, and one unexpected side effect (outside of all the surprise cats on the screen and kids yelling in the background) is that many of us are staring at our own faces for more hours a day than we normally would be. […]
A lot of the attention around “pandemic pets” has focused on families with children getting a cat, dog or other pet in 2020, during a time when many people were learning or working from home. But a new poll shows that older adults also got in on the trend. According to the National Poll on […]
A new survey has found that almost half of health-care workers haven't received a dose of any COVID-19 vaccine. Conducted by The Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation, the poll was taken from Feb. 11 to March 7 by 1,327 people who work on the front lines within the heath-care industry, 597 of whom have […]
With the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the world entered a phase of social restrictions which limited routine social and economic activities covering a wide spectrum, accompanied by a soaring and often overwhelming disease and death toll. A new study, released on […]
India’s wealthiest state Maharashtra and its capital Mumbai recorded on Friday the most daily coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, stoking a new nationwide wave. The Asian nation of 1.3 billion people was this month overtaken by Brazil as the country with the second most infections after cases dipped in December and January. But recent […]
