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ECMO offers sickest COVID patients a chance to survive, but a slimmer one than previously thought
ECMO life support can save the lives of about half of the critically ill COVID-19 patients who are placed on it by their ICU teams.
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Should you get a booster dose of COVID vaccine?
Do you need a COVID vaccine booster shot? Follow this quick, easy-to-understand guide to the latest recommendations from the FDA and CDC for COVID vaccine booster doses.
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Delirium is a common consequence of severe COVID-19, study finds
Cognitive impairment is highly likely for patients in the ICU and could be lasting.
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Pandemic tripled telehealth use for Gen Z, but even digital natives want in-person care
Polls of teens and young adults taken before and during pandemic show most see the benefit of telemedicine, especially video and for minor ailments.
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Majority of older adults say health care workers should have to get COVID-19 vaccine
Many unvaccinated health care workers will soon be subject to a federal vaccine requirement announced by President Biden. A new poll shows most older adults support a COVID vaccination mandate for doctors, nurses and others.
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Why Do People with Diabetes Develop Severe COVID-19?
Type 2 diabetes is one of the main risk factors for developing severe COVID-19 due to too much inflammation, often called a cytokine storm. New research shows a potential new therapy for these patients.
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Studying an extra COVID-19 vaccine dose in people with autoimmune diseases
How would a third dose of COVID vaccine affect people with autoimmune disease? A new NIH study co-led by a U-M rheumatologist aims to find out.
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Why do some people need a third dose of the COVID vaccine?
We know more now about how immunocompromised people — including organ transplant recipients, certain cancer patients and those on medications that severely suppress the immune system — respond to the COVID vaccine.
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Immunocompromised people make up nearly half of COVID-19 breakthrough hospitalizations
An extra vaccine dose may help.
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Existing drugs kill SARS-CoV-2 in cells
Could the next therapy for COVID-19 already be at your local pharmacy?
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Short hospitalizations hit hard for COVID patients
Study hints at long-term health and financial impacts.
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Masks and the delta variant
Do masks work against the delta variant? If you’re vaccinated, do you need to wear a mask? As the COVID pandemic continues, CDC mask wearing guidance adapts to current conditions.
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What the Delta variant means for COVID-19 spread and vaccines
The Delta variant of COVID-19 is more transmissible and can cause breakthrough infections even in vaccinated people, but what does it mean practically for the vaccinated and unvaccinated, the immunocompromised and kids?
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How can nursing homes protect residents from infection? Follow the research
Nursing home residents were hit hard by COVID-19, but other infections threaten their health too including superbugs known as MDROs, and urinary tract infections.
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What does the future hold for telehealth? New report gives hints
Telehealth including video visits, e-Visits and other telemedicine have ramped up rapidly during the pandemic. New data could shape future use.
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