When Lori Popejoy and Amy Vogelsmeier were working as registered nurses early in their careers, they saw firsthand how quickly
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Flu shots and COVID-19
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends everyone over 6 months get a flu shot every season with rare
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Respiratory Virus Patterns Shifted by COVID-19 Measures
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as masking, staying
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Pneumonia Risk Soars in Heart Failure Patients, Especially HFpEF
Patients with heart failure get pneumonia at a rate almost three times greater than expected and, once they do get
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Botswana bans poultry imports from South Africa after avian flu outbreak
FILE PHOTO: Chickens are seen at a poultry farm at Hartbeesfontein, a settlement near Klerksdorp, in the North West province,
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Sharp Decline in Flu and Colds Has Experts Wondering if Masks Will Stick Around After Pandemic Ends
As the COVID-19 pandemic raged in the U.S., masks became key to reducing the virus' spread. But they did more
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Combined clinical and genomic data better predicts COVID-19 severity
The current COVID-19 outbreak is one of the worst pandemics in history and has claimed millions of lives across the
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New research shows substantially higher burden of COVID-19 compared to flu
In a paper published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, physician-researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) assessed
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Multiple factors synergistically drive socioeconomic disparities in flu burden
A comprehensive modeling study sheds new light on socioeconomic-based mechanisms that drive disparities in influenza burden across the U.S. Casey
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New mRNA treatment appears to stop replication of flu and Covid-19 viruses
With a relatively minor genetic change, a new treatment developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory
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