No patients demonstrated antibody-mediated rejection; all recipients alive at follow-up
Many COVID-19 Home Test Users May Act on Quarantine Inappropriately
Users may fail to quarantine or quarantine unnecessarily because of misinterpretation of pretest probability
Extensive Placental Damage ID’d in COVID-19-Linked Stillbirths
Mechanism of stillbirth, neonatal death is hypoxic-ischemic injury resulting from placental destruction and insufficiency caused by SARS-CoV-2
Odds of Severe, Critical COVID-19 Up With Vitamin D Deficiency
Patients with severe or critical disease more often had preinfection vitamin D deficiency than those with mild-to-moderate disease
Vaccine Effectiveness Up After Three COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
VE lower during omicron- versus delta-predominant period at all time points; waned with increasing time since vaccination
Mandatory COVID-19 Tests Lifted for Vaccinated Travelers to Britain
Those who have had at least two doses of vaccine now only need to fill out a passenger locator form before arrival
U.S. Buys 600,000 Doses of New COVID-19 Treatment Still Awaiting FDA Approval
New drug will be distributed to states for free if it receives emergency use authorization from the FDA
FDA Approves New Antibody Drug to Fight Omicron Variant
Emergency use authorization for bebtelovimab is for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19
FDA Postpones Decision on Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine for Under 5s
Step was taken after Pfizer notified the agency it would like to wait until data are available on a three-dose regimen
Physician’s Briefing Weekly Coronavirus Roundup
Here is what the editors at Physician’s Briefing chose as the most important COVID-19 developments for you and your practice for the week of Feb. 7 to 11, 2022. This …