Editor’s Note: Find the latest news and guidance from COVID-19 at Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Overall mortality of patients with COVID-19 in intensive care units (ICUs) in Europe, Asia, and North America fell from nearly 60% in late March to nearly 42% in late May, according to a systematic review. …
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A new study involving more than 92,000 COVID-19 patients in Brazil shows that the odds of serious illness, ventilatory support requirement, and death are reduced with a trivalent recent flu shot. This seems to indicate that these vaccines should be used as widely as possible to reduce the risk of …
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