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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. One of Johnson & Johnsons contract vaccine manufacturers messed up during production of 15 million doses, putting shipments behind schedule. ( New York Times) Meanwhile, Pfizer and BioNTech said their vaccine was 100% effective in South Africa, where the troubling B.1.351 variant is widespread, amidst other boasts about the product. France will undergo a third national lockdown through the end of April due to accelerating coronaviru...

email article During the pandemic, teens mental health services accounted for a much greater proportion of all their medical claims than in the past, especially last March and April, according to a FAIR Health "white paper". Mental health claims essentially doubled as a percentage of all medical claims for individuals age 13-18 in March (+97%) and April (+103.5%) of 2020 compared with the same periods a year earlier, the report said. Medical claims overall fell by about half during that t...

email article Kids whose mothers had an autoimmune disease were more likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to results of a cohort study and meta-analysis. Mothers with an autoimmune disease were 30% more likely to have a child with ADHD (hazard ratio 1.30, 95% CI 1.15-1.46), reported Timothy Nielsen, MPH, of the University of Sydney in Australia, and colleagues. Type 1 diabetes (HR 2.23, 95% CI 1.66-3.00), psoriasis (HR 1.66, 95% CI 1.02-2.70), and r...