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The study looks at outcomes of people who came down with COVID during the infection’s first wave. Fatigue, pain, and memory loss were the most common persistent symptoms, in that order.

Although the panel voted 16:1 for the new budesonide + albuterol inhaler in adults, they said the data does not support use in children and they were split on use in adolescents over the age of 12.

In a recently published prospective cohort study, a third dose of the BioNTech Pfizer vaccine yielded a sustained immunologic response. But response to a fourth was much smaller and was gone completely by 13 weeks, providing only a short-term benefit over the third dose. A fourth dose should therefore be timed based on disease waves or be provided seasonally, like the influenza vaccine.

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Two JAMA papers suggest that more side effects correlates with higher levels of anti-spike antibodies. But anti-spike antibodies develop even in individuals who experienced evident reaction, with the possible exception of those on immunosuppressant regimens.