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One study found that 32% of people who did not get an updated COVID shot were worried about side effects. The possible side effects reported for the updated COVID vaccine are the same as with the ...
Remdesivir is the first treatment for COVID‑19 to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). [ 60] The approval by the FDA does not include the entire population that had been authorized to use remdesivir under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) originally issued in May 2020. [ 60]
New research finds the COVID-19 vaccine lowers the risk of long COVID by up to 72%. The findings support health agencies’ recommendations. Long COVID treatments still have a long way to go.
More serious side effects are very rare. Before COVID-19 vaccines such as Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech were authorized for use in the general population, they had to pass phase III studies involving tens of thousands of people. Any serious side effects that did not appear during that testing are likely to occur less often than ~1 in 10,000 cases.
In November 2020, a U.S. National Institutes of Health clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of adults with COVID-19 formally concluded that the drug provided no clinical benefit for COVID-19 treatment and recommended against its use. [56] [57] [1]
The bottom line: “Getting COVID-19 carries way more baggage than any side effects you might get from the vaccine,” Dr. Ogbuagu sums up. “We know that about two out of every 10 people who get ...
COVID-19 drug development is the research process to develop preventative therapeutic prescription drugs that would alleviate the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). From early 2020 through 2021, several hundred drug companies, biotechnology firms, university research groups, and health organizations were developing therapeutic ...
In May 2020, Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR's) National Institute of Virology approved and provided the virus strains for developing an Indian COVID-19 vaccine. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] In June 2020, the company received permission to conduct Phase I and Phase II human trials of a developmental COVID-19 vaccine codenamed BBV152 , from the ...