COVID Articles
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued an amendment to the declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act for medical countermeasures against COVID-19.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has amended the emergency use authorizations of the. Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines to simplify the vaccination schedule for most individuals.
U.S. scientists have developed a new genomic test that can predict a patient's risk of developing severe COVID-19, an advance that could help doctors quickly begin tailored treatment.
Despite technical challenges, some companies are working on making a combination COVID and flu vaccine.
A new systematic review and meta-analysis conducted by U.S. and Nepalese collaborators supports the use of IVIG with glucocorticoids compared to IVIG alone.
Researchers at the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine are developing a COVID-19 vaccine using a conventional method that will make the production and distribution cheaper and more accessible.
Investigators found COVID-19 infection altered the mothers’ immunity at delivery, and gestational COVID-19 exposure alters the immunity of newborns.
A new study demonstrates how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection could be associated with an autoimmune response and development of autoantibodies.
Transition of clinic-based to home-based intravenous immune globulin (IVIG)/subcutaneous IG (SCIG) infusion can be successfully done to decrease potential exposure during a pandemic in a high-risk immunosuppressed population.
The National Institutes of Health is conducting a $470 million study to determine why COVID-19 symptoms persist for so long among many patients.
A large multicenter clinical trial has found intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) plus glucocorticoids may be better than IVIG alone for treating multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) caused by COVID-19.
Two recent studies effectively determined the antibody responses of pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2 and the effect of the fetal sex on those responses, as well as the direct clinical implications for COVID-19 infection and future maternal-fetal vaccination strategies.