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Paxlovid Cuts Covid Death Risk. But Useage is Low --studies

As Covid rises again, killing about 1,500 Americans each week, medical researchers are trying to understand why so few people are taking Paxlovid, a medicine that is stunningly effective in preventing severe illness and death from the disease.

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Sixteen US States Reported Increased COVID Hospitalizations Before Christmas--CDC map

Sixteen U.S. states had a substantial increase in coronavirus hospitalizations in the week leading up to Christmas compared with the previous seven days, maps from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show.

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Other critical illnesses as well as COVID can affect brain health --Danish study

A study involving hospitalized adults today in JAMA Network Open finds that severe COVID-19 negatively affects brain health, but no more so than pneumonia, heart attack, or other critical illnesses.

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