Editor’s Note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the stories of coronavirus that Medscape editors around the world think you need to know today: Immune responses explained Although reports of weak as well as short-lived anticonvulsant responses in patients with COVID-19 have …
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Editor’s Note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance at Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the stories of coronavirus that Medscape editors around the world think you need to know about today: Fax Challenge Files More than 32,000 people volunteered to participate in challenge studies for COVID-19 vaccines, which …
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The full results of a randomized low-dose dexamethasone clinical trial confirmed previous preliminary findings that it could save the lives of up to a third of hospitalized patients with severe respiratory complications from COVID-19. The RECOVERY (Randomized Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY) trial led by the University of Oxford found that …
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