Medication

Influenza overtakes COVID-19 in the United States as the primary respiratory disease

Influenza overtakes COVID-19 in the United States as the primary respiratory disease

More people are getting seriously ill with the flu in the United States than with COVID-19, a demonstration of this year’s severe flu season — but also of the waning severity of a pandemic that once brought the world to its knees. Figures collected by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the …

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Our next best COVID medicine has been hiding in plain sight

Our next best COVID medicine has been hiding in plain sight

The fight against COVID seems to have fallen into a ping-pong rhythm at this point, where every step forward seems undermined by a step back. Vaccines are available and hospitalization rates have fallen dramatically from previous peaks. But only a small number of eligible Americans have received the most recent bivalent vaccine, and the specter …

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