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Complications from a Covid infection can harm the heart, brain, lungs and kidneys. A new study finds that patients hospitalized for Covid were less likely to suffer severe kidney damage if they were vaccinated. Researchers at UCLA Health analyzed electronic medical records at a large academic hospital between March 1, 2020, and March 30, 2022, of approximately 3,500 hospitalized patients, ages 18 and older,...

The nation’s top public health agency posted new recommendations that say healthy children and pregnant women may get Covid vaccinations, removing stronger language that those groups should get the shots.The change comes days after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women.But the updated guidance on the Centers for Disease...

A new Covid variant that’s gaining momentum globally has landed in the U.S.The World Health Organization announced last week that it was monitoring the variant, NB.1.8.1, following a rise in cases in several parts of the world, including Europe, Southeast Asia and North and South America.The variant appears to be more transmissible than the dominant strain worldwide, LP.8.1, meaning it has the potential to...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend routine Covid shots for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday. “We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again,” he said in a post on X. Kennedy said the vaccine would no longer be recommended for "healthy pregnant...

When her school closed down in March 2020, Chimére Sweeney, an English teacher in Baltimore, thought she’d return to her students once the U.S. got a handle on the new SARS-CoV-2 virus. But “life had a different plan” when she got Covid shortly after — and then never recovered, she said.At first, Sweeney developed only muscle aches. By the second week, she started having...