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July 15th 2025
Receiving a COVID-19 vaccination vastly reduced the risk of long-term hospitalization, necessitating dialysis, and morbidity in patients hospitalized with acute kidney injury related to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Second Booster Protects Against Breakthrough COVID-19 Variant Infections in Health Care Workers
August 8th 2022Health care workers who got 4 total doses against COVID-19, 2 doses of which are boosters, experienced more than 10% lower breakthrough infection rate than those with only 3 total doses.
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Overdose Deaths Increased in Wave 4 of the Opioid Crisis, Coinciding with the COVID-19 Pandemic
August 4th 2022The suggested wave 4 of the opioid crisis saw high opioid-involved overdose death rates in urban counties and high acceleration of overdose deaths in rural counties, indicating that the opioid crisis worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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