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Anchor lead: Can a diabetes drug help reduce Alzheimer’s risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Metformin is the first line medication for type 2 diabetes, and now an Australian study has shown that people taking it experience less Alzheimer’s disease compared to …
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Anchor lead: Estimates are that about 10% of the US population has been exposed to Sars-CoV2, Elizabeth Tracey reports Seroprevalence refers to looking for antibodies to an infection in a population, with the most recent study in the US finding …
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Anchor lead: Volunteers in the UK plan to allow themselves to be infected with Sars-CoV2 following vaccination, Elizabeth Tracey reports How can you tell if a Sars-CoV2 vaccine works? Most studies inject two groups of people, one of whom gets …
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Anchor lead: What accounts for an apparent decline in severity of Covid-19? Elizabeth Tracey reports Numbers of people infected with Sars-CoV2 continue to rise nationally, yet the rates of hospitalization and death are largely declining, recent data show. Brian Garibaldi, …
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Anchor lead: How many people can be infected with Sars-CoV2 but not show symptoms? Elizabeth Tracey reports One in three people who tested positive for Sars-CoV2 didn’t have any symptoms at diagnosis and never developed any, a recent study from …
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Anchor lead: What can a big data analysis of Covid-19 hospitalizations teach us? Elizabeth Tracey reports Assessment of several clinical factors and other patient characteristics can predict who might have a severe course of Covid-19 when they are hospitalized, a …
