Infectious disease

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The U.S. averages more than 700,000 new COVID-19 cases per day. As of Saturday, there were 4.91M cases, more cases in seven days than in April, May, June, and July 2021 combined.
Around 40% of Pfizer’s portfolio was realized through partnerships, and Monday, the pharma giant announced three more collaborative deals.
The biopharma industry has started 2022 with plenty of clinical trial news. Here’s a look.
Judge Mark Pittman found that the Freedom of Information Act filed by PHMPT is of paramount public importance and demands that the FDA make the data publicly available within eight months.
As the Omicron strain sweeps the world, researchers rush to determine how effective vaccines are at creating immunity against the variant. For that and more, continue reading.
What the appearance of yet another variant shows is the “unpredictability of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants,” according to the researchers who discovered IHU.
A bispecific antibody discovered by Twist Bioscience and licensed to Revelar Biotherapeutics neutralizes both the Omicron and Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2 in studies with the live virus.
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Evidence continues to accumulate suggesting that Omicron, although significantly more infectious than previous COVID-19 strains, causes less severe disease.
More than 103,000 people in the U.S. were hospitalized on January 3, 2022, for COVID-19—the highest daily figure of hospitalizations since last summer when the Delta variant emerged.
While women are more statistically susceptible to autoimmune diseases, the research found that men with at least a mild COVID-19 infection had far more autoantibody (AAB) reactivity.
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