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Paxlovid Improved Long Covid Symptoms in Some Patients, Researchers Report

Paxlovid Improved Long Covid Symptoms in Some Patients, Researchers Report

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Can Paxlovid treat long Covid? A new report suggests it might help some patients, but which patients might benefit remains unclear. The report, published Monday in the journal Communications Medicine, describes the cases of 13 long Covid patients who took extended courses of the antiviral drug. Results were decidedly mixed: Nine patients reported some improvement, […]

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C.D.C. Shortens Isolation Period for People With Covid

C.D.C. Shortens Isolation Period for People With Covid

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Americans with Covid or other respiratory infections need not isolate for five days before returning to work or school, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, a striking sign of changing attitudes toward the coronavirus. People with respiratory illnesses may resume daily activities if they have been fever-free for at least 24

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C.D.C. Considers Ending 5-Day Isolation Period for Covid

C.D.C. Considers Ending 5-Day Isolation Period for Covid

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering loosening its recommendations regarding how long people should isolate after testing positive for the coronavirus, another reflection of changing attitudes and norms as the pandemic recedes. Under the proposed guidelines, Americans would no longer be advised to isolate for five days before returning to work or

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Paxlovid Cuts Covid Death Risk. But Those Who Need It Are Not Taking It.

Paxlovid Cuts Covid Death Risk. But Those Who Need It Are Not Taking It.

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As Covid rises again, killing about 1,500 Americans each week, medical researchers are trying to understand why so few people are taking Paxlovid, a medicine that is stunningly effective in preventing severe illness and death from the disease. A study of a million high-risk people with Covid found that only about 15 percent who were

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Covid Variant JN.1 Now Accounts for Nearly Half of U.S. Cases

Covid Variant JN.1 Now Accounts for Nearly Half of U.S. Cases

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As the holiday season winds down and Covid-19 cases start to pick up, a variant called JN.1 has now become the most common strain of the virus spreading across the United States. JN.1, which emerged from the variant BA.2.86 and was first detected in the United States in September, accounted for 44 percent of Covid

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COVID Changed Life for People With a Fear of Needles

COVID Changed Life for People With a Fear of Needles

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From the moment COVID-19 reached pandemic designation, Joe McDougall had nightmares. Not, like others, about the potential path of the virus, but about the seemingly inevitable moment at which he’d be asked—or held down and forced—to receive a vaccine. McDougall, now 39, is terrified of needles and a global pandemic meant that for the first

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Wild Mammals Roamed When Covid Kept Humans Home

Wild Mammals Roamed When Covid Kept Humans Home

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Why It Matters: Traffic can take a toll on wildlife. Many previous studies have shown that roads can alter the behavior of wild animals. But it has been difficult to disentangle the effects of permanent changes to the landscape, such as clearing forests to build a freeway, from the effects of daily human activity, such

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How Worried Should the World Be of China’s New COVID Wave?

How Worried Should the World Be of China’s New COVID Wave?

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Last week when a Chinese senior health adviser projected 65 million COVID-19 cases per week in China by June, some health experts sounded the alarm. China has been facing a new COVID-19 wave fueled by the XBB variant since April. Data from Zhong Nanshan—a respiratory disease doctor who was among the first to confirm COVID-19’s

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