Odds of Severe, Critical COVID-19 Up With Vitamin D Deficiency
Patients with severe or critical disease more often had preinfection vitamin D deficiency than those with mild-to-moderate disease
Vaccine Effectiveness Up After Three COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
VE lower during omicron- versus delta-predominant period at all time points; waned with increasing time since vaccination
Survival High With Lung Transplant for COVID-19-Associated ARDS
No patients demonstrated antibody-mediated rejection; all recipients alive at follow-up
Many COVID-19 Home Test Users May Act on Quarantine Inappropriately
Users may fail to quarantine or quarantine unnecessarily because of misinterpretation of pretest probability
Extensive Placental Damage ID’d in COVID-19-Linked Stillbirths
Mechanism of stillbirth, neonatal death is hypoxic-ischemic injury resulting from placental destruction and insufficiency caused by SARS-CoV-2
11.5 Percent of Under 65-Year-Olds Uninsured in 2020
Adults aged 18 to 64 years living in non-Medicaid expansion states twice as likely to be uninsured as those living in expansion states
New Symptoms, Conditions May Develop After Positive Test for SARS-CoV-2
Among hospitalized patients aged 20 years or older, prevalence of new fatigue, T2DM up for those with positive versus negative SARS-CoV-2 result
Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection Less Protective Against Omicron Variant
Effectiveness of previous infection in prevention of reinfection about 90 percent for alpha, beta, delta variants; 56 percent for omicron variant
Physician’s Briefing Weekly Coronavirus Roundup
FDA Postpones Decision on Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine for Under 5s
Step was taken after Pfizer notified the agency it would like to wait until data are available on a three-dose regimen
