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Coronavirus Tidbits #269 Oct 29, 2023
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that. News Study highlights potential role of statin drug in critical COVID-19 cases Simvastatin (Zocor), the widely available statin drug used to treat high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, has a 96% probability of improving outcomes for critically ill COVID-19 patients and a 92% chance…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #268 Oct 22, 2023
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that. ~ ~ ~ New Post: Mislabeled Medications Aren’t Always Made Public My friend found aspirin in a sealed bottle labeled Naproxen, bought at a Walmart. When does something happen? https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2023/10/19/mislabeled-medications-arent-always-made-public/?sh=154cc0bc6224 News Study finds serotonin reduction causes long COVID symptoms Patients with long COVID—the…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #267, Oct 15, 2023
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that. ~ ~ ~ Tidbits is abbreviated this week. With all that is going on in Israel and the Middle East, I haven't felt up to doing more. Not much happening on the Covid front anyway. If you wish to support Israel, I would suggest…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #266, Oct 8, 2023
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I’m getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don’t be shy about that. News Covid rates are steadily rising, notably in Boston, prompting me to ask, in response to a Boston Globe article and my post last week about anti-maskers and Boston hospital infection control people opposing masking: I wonder if about 425 patients were hospitalized…
