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Mashup Score: 7Covid Can Raise the Risk of Heart Problems for Years - 9 hour(s) ago
People who had severe infections are especially vulnerable.
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Mashup Score: 12What You Need to Know Now About Hydroxychloroquine - 10 hour(s) ago
Talk about the controversial medication is floating around again.
Source: www.menshealth.comCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
In this piece I’m quoted about how hydroxychlorquine, a failed #COVID19 treatment, has significant side effects and should not be used outside the conditions it’s been demonstrated to be effective in https://t.co/iEahpc5kKg
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Mashup Score: 2Study provides more positive data for Paxlovid use in high-risk patients with COVID-19 - 13 hour(s) ago
Treatment with Paxlovid significantly reduced the duration and severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection among high-risk patients while also reducing health care utilization and severe outcomes, according to a study.
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“Paxlovid significantly reduced times to sustained alleviation and resolution of COVID-19 illness. The treatment also resulted in fewer hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths.” https://t.co/Sl6Y88D7Ax
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Mashup Score: 9
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 A new report suggests most US fast-food and fast-casual restaurant chains have made little progress on efforts to reduce antibiotic use by their meat and poultry suppliers. Of the 20 restaurant chains reviewed in the Serving Up Superbugs report, which grades the chains based on antibiotic use policies in the meat they serve, only Chipotle and KFC received A grades for having meaningful policies for all types of meat they serve. Five chains
Source: www.cidrap.umn.eduCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
“only Chipotle and KFC received A grades for having meaningful policies for all types of meat they serve. Five chains received a C grade, six a D grade, and five received an F.” https://t.co/wkZDgHibLV
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Mashup Score: 8There Are Three Main Reasons You Are Alive Right Now. RFK Jr. Is Fighting Tooth and Nail Against One of Them. - 20 hour(s) ago
Things could get really bad.
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“The most dangerous thing Donald Trump is poised to do in his second administration—unless he barges into a nuclear war, which there is a nonzero chance of him doing—is elevate RFK Jr., a messianic, conspiracy-theorist, anti-vaccine menace to society” https://t.co/eBycdSCZre
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Opinion: Pro-vaccine advocates facing RFK Jr. are stronger, savvier, and more ready for a fight than ever before.
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“RFK Jr.’s nomination to HHS secretary is alarming, but the pro-vaccine movement is ready” https://t.co/f2S7vNpOyO
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Mashup Score: 0
The percentage of long-term care residents receiving an antibiotic decreased from 51% to 44% from 2013 to 2021.
Source: www.cidrap.umn.eduCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
“The study authors note that the decline in LTC antibiotic prescribing rates coincides with the 2017 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule requiring that LTCs have a system for tracking antibiotic use.” https://t.co/Ai59YCQ2pY
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Mashup Score: 9
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 A new report suggests most US fast-food and fast-casual restaurant chains have made little progress on efforts to reduce antibiotic use by their meat and poultry suppliers. Of the 20 restaurant chains reviewed in the Serving Up Superbugs report, which grades the chains based on antibiotic use policies in the meat they serve, only Chipotle and KFC received A grades for having meaningful policies for all types of meat they serve. Five chains
Source: www.cidrap.umn.eduCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
“only Chipotle and KFC received A grades for having meaningful policies for all types of meat they serve. Five chains received a C grade, six a D grade, and five received an F.” https://t.co/wkZDgHibLV
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Mashup Score: 4
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 When given early, the antiviral drug molnupiravir (Lagevrio) halved the risk of COVID-19 death and reduced all-cause deaths among older adults in the Czech Republic in 2022, findings published yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases suggest. Masaryk University researchers analyzed data from all 74,541 adults with a diagnosis of COVID-19 in the national registry infection treated with molnupiravir from January through December 2022, a
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“Molnupiravir was linked to a significantly lower risk of COVID-19 death (cumulative incidence, 0.28% in drug recipients and 0.48% in controls). The greatest risk reductions in COVID-19 and all-cause deaths were seen among women and hospitalized patients” https://t.co/Qwti5DWGps
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Mashup Score: 2
Case counts for Oropouche virus are still low but rising dramatically. What’s going on? And then there’s a study that raises the possibility that insect bites aren’t the only way the virus can spread.
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"So now the virus that was circulating between midges and mammals [is near] people..And then these people acquire the virus, and what do they do? They [travel back and forth] to the big cities." https://t.co/DZgkgcozzU
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“The new study found that people with a non-O blood type — A, B or AB — have an especially increased risk for heart disease after a Covid-19 infection” https://t.co/SBE0aQmYZ7