Coronavirus Survivors May Need Only One Vaccine Dose
But vaccine companies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and top health officials like White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci have cautioned against going outside what has been scientifically tested.
The latest estimates indicate that roughly thirty million people in the United States over the past year have contracted the novel coronavirus.
And the trending question in recent weeks is: Do these individuals still need to be inoculated against a virus that they have already defeated?
It appears that in many instances, according to two letters to major medical journals, survivors of the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, will need only one vaccine dose meaning that they can skip their second doses and immediately double the already scarce supply for other high-risk individuals.
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In the ordinary course of a day, most of us don’t give much thought to the ins and outs (literally) of our breathing. Running, however, can put a greater emphasis on the otherwise unremarkable (but, remarkable!) process due to the fact that it can sometimes cause breathing to become difficult or labored.
In a nutshell, the breathing process works like this: When you inhale, you’re filling the air sacs inside your lungs, which then fill the small sacs (a.k.a. alveoli) where that incoming oxygen is exchanged with carbon dioxide in the blood at the cellular level, explains William Roberts, MD, director of the Sports Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
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Challenges in interpreting serological data
In practice, interpreting and comparing data from serosurveys can be difficult, with studies varying in size, diagnostic test and sampling approach. Also, the lag between data collection and reporting is a major challenge, explains Jill Foster, professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immun