Articles related to COVID-19

According to the January 2023 Cochrane report, “…in the community studies, wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like illness…” Were reviews delayed in publication to support a masking viewpoint? Read the summary and collected interviews here.

In a review of hospitalization records in Hong Kong, Feb-July 2022, adults hospitalized for COVID and given molnupiravir or nirmatrelvir–ritonavir showed lower all-cause mortality, regardless of vaccination status. However, there was no significant reduction in ICU admission or the need for mechanical ventilation.

On May 11th, the public health emergency that loosened some controls on telehealth and remote prescribing comes to an end. What will be the impact on telepsychiatry? Some of the flexibilities introduced by the Ryan Haught Act will continue, but others sunset, and practices will need to adjust.

Many studies have a high risk of bias and significant heterogeneity, implying that results should be interpreted with caution. Nonetheless, most estimates of symptom change for general mental health, anxiety symptoms, and depression symptoms were close to zero and not statistically significant, and significant changes were of minimal to minor magnitudes. In all domains, women or female participants experienced minor negative changes.

According to emails, the February 2020 paper, written to disprove the lab-leak theory, was crafted under Dr. Fauci’s prompting with his final approval before publication, say House Republicans.

Patients with long COVID may present in primary care with symptoms of palpitations from tachycardia triggered by standing or even limited exertion. Palpitations can be accompanied by other autonomic nervous symptom-associated symptoms such as dizziness, breathlessness, chest pain, sweating, bloating, and fatigue, and patients can find these symptoms debilitating.