Covid-19: US doctors sue regulator for charging them with spreading misinformation in pandemic
Four doctors threatened with disciplinary action by Washington state’s medical regulator over spreading misinformation about…
Category: US, COVID-19
Agreement of treatment effects from observational studies and randomized controlled trials evaluating hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir-ritonavir, or dexamethasone for covid-19: meta-epidemiological study
AbstractObjectiveTo systematically identify, match, and compare treatment effects and study demographics from individual or meta-analysed…
Covid-19: US passes one million deaths as mask mandates return
The US passed one million deaths from covid-19 on 4 May 2022, data from NBC…
Covid-19: Is the US compensation scheme for vaccine injuries fit for purpose?
“My toes move constantly, 24 hours a day, uncontrollably back and forth,” says Chris Dreisbach,…
Covid-19: Americans who are over 50 or immunocompromised are advised to have second booster
Second booster doses against covid-19 for Americans aged over 50 and for certain immunocompromised people…
Clinical severity of, and effectiveness of mRNA vaccines against, covid-19 from omicron, delta, and alpha SARS-CoV-2 variants in the United States: prospective observational study
AbstractObjectivesTo characterize the clinical severity of covid-19 associated with the alpha, delta, and omicron SARS-CoV-2…
Covid-19: Military medics are sent to hardest hit hospitals as US records a million cases a day
President Joe Biden has told Americans, “Be concerned about omicron, but don’t be alarmed,” after…
Covid-19: FDA expert panel recommends authorising molnupiravir but also voices concerns
An advisory panel of experts has voted by 13 to 10 to recommend that the…
Covid-19: Gun violence in US increased 30% during pandemic
Gun violence in the United States increased by 30% during 2020-21 from pre-pandemic levels, researchers…
Covid-19: US imposes mandatory vaccination on two thirds of workforce
All US companies employing more than 100 people must require their staff to be fully…
Covid-19: FDA approves Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in record time
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval to the two dose Pfizer-BioNTech…
Effect of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across populations in the USA and other high income countries: simulations of provisional mortality data
AbstractObjectiveTo estimate changes in life expectancy in 2010-18 and during the covid-19 pandemic in 2020…
Covid-19: US relaxes rules on mask wearing for fully vaccinated people
Americans who have been fully vaccinated can relax their use of face coverings, especially outdoors,…
Covid-19: US will send 60 million AstraZeneca doses abroad as domestic demand falls
The Biden administration has announced that the US will send as many as 60 million…
Covid-19: Moderna plans booster doses to counter variants
The US drug company Moderna has announced that it is developing two new approaches to…
Covid-19: Biden launches national plan based on “science and public health alone”
President Joe Biden has warned that the US death toll from covid-19 may reach 500…
Covid-19: Biden calls for science, vaccines, and masks
President elect Joe Biden has said he would rely on science, the broad distribution of…
Immunized? There’s an app for that
If you’re of a certain age, or if you travel to exotic places, you’ll be…
Covid-19: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is rolled out in US
Stephen Hahn, director of the US Food and Drug Administration, issued an emergency use authorization…
Covid-19: US faces “surge upon a surge”
The US is likely to experience “a surge upon a surge” of covid-19 cases as…
Work visas: foreign doctors in the US have more than covid-19 to fear
Covid-19 has hit the city of Florence in South Carolina hard in the past few…
Covid-19: Medical expenses leave many Americans deep in debt
When Susan Adair called an ambulance for her husband on 5 April 2020, she thought…
Covid-19: US cases are greatly underestimated, seroprevalence studies suggest
Several seroprevalence studies suggest that US covid-19 infections are many times higher than the reported…
Characterization and clinical course of 1000 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in New York: retrospective case series
AbstractObjectiveTo characterize patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in a large New York City medical…
Covid-19 care before, during, and beyond the hospital
By the third week of May 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the…
Lack of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in covid-19
Some have trumpeted the 4-aminoquinoline antimalarial drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquinine, for the treatment of covid-19,…