Month: January 2022

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Women who received Covid vaccinations while pregnant were at no greater risk of delivering their babies prematurely or of giving birth to unusually small babies than pregnant women who did not get vaccinated, a new study reports. The study, one of the first to examine the health of babies born to women vaccinated during pregnancy, was a reassuring signal. Low-birth-weight babies and infants born early are more likely to experience developmental delays and other health problems. An earlier study had found that women vaccinated during pregnancy did not face a higher risk of miscarriage than the unvaccinated. The new study looked at some 46,079 singleton pregnancies that resulted in a live birth, including some 10,064 among women who received one or more doses of Covid vaccine between Dec. ...

The omicron variant of the coronavirus appears to cause less damage to the lungs, suggesting that the variant is different than previous COVID-19 strains. A series of new studies that used mice and hamsters found that the omicron variant limited its infectiousness to the upper airways, according to WebMD. That includes the nose, throat and windpipe. Previous COVID-19 variants centered around the lungs and breathing issues, which led to COVID-19 symptoms such as shortness of breath. Roland Eils, a computational biologist at the Berlin Institute of Health, said this shows a sign of what’s happening with the omicron variant. “It’s fair to say that the idea of a disease that manifests itself primarily in the upper respiratory system is emerging,” he said, per The New York Times...