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5 days ago · If you test positive for COVID-19 or have respiratory virus symptoms (like a fever, chills, fatigue, cough, runny nose, and/or headache) that aren’t explained by another cause, the CDC ...
3 days ago · The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized this treatment to prevent COVID-19 in some people with weakened immune systems. Medicines to treat COVID-19. Your healthcare professional may suggest certain medicines if you test positive for COVID-19 and are at high risk of serious illness. These medicines keep mild illness from getting ...
4 days ago · Experts are closely watching KP.2, now the leading variant. By Dani Blum For most of this year, the JN.1 variant of the coronavirus accounted for an overwhelming majority of Covid cases. But now ...
1 day ago · Even before COVID-19 spread across the planet, patients were presenting with similar constellations of symptoms following other infections, which doctors and researchers collectively referred to as infection-associated chronic illnesses or post-acute infection syndromes. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a ...
5 days ago · Monitor vital signs. Monitor the patient’s temperature; the infection usually begins with a high temperature; monitor the respiratory rate of the patient as shortness of breath is another common symptom. Monitor O2 saturation. Monitor the patient’s O2 saturation because respiratory compromise results in hypoxia.
1 day ago · Coronavirus. Credit: European Centers for Disease Control. Two new COVID-19 subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are increasingly edging out the winter's dominant strain ahead of a possible ...
5 days ago · The “slight caution” about the FLiRT variants, Schaffner says, is that from a genetic perspective, they are a little more “distant from their parents.”. That means immunity from previous infections and vaccines “may not protect perfectly” against an infection with a FLiRT variant, he notes. ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER ADVERTISEMENT.
