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Despite the fact omicron’s variants are more contagious than ever and the U.S. is still seeing roughly 400 deaths a day, the pandemic is over for many. Not so for the immunocompromised among us, though. Some tips from Fred Hutch experts.
The Food and Drug Administration has formally restricted the use of antibody treatments that lost their once-considerable effect when faced with the omicron variant, pausing a therapy that had been widely embraced, including by people who eschewed vaccinations. Many health systems stopped using the antibody treatments weeks ago as omicron surged. And while doctors have
US officials limit treatments that don’t work on omicron
Several members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) vaccine advisory committee have financial ties to Pfizer. Right after voting unanimously to recommend the Pfizer-BioNTech [...]
®)—an alliance of leading cancer centers—has published new best practice recommendations for Management of COVID-19 Infection in Patients with Cancer. This new expert guidance cites more than 150 studies covering how best to manage and treat diagnosed or suspected COVID-19 in cancer patients to achieve the best possible outcomes for all conditions. The recommendations include topics such as: Who should be tested for SARS-CoV-2; Which SARS-CoV-2 tests to use; How to use/interpret PCR cycle threshold (Ct) value; Who should be isolated, how, and for how long; When to modify chemotherapy...