Year Three of COVID-19: Harsh Truths, Brutal Realities, and Glimmers of Hope

SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, has now killed 1 out of every 303 Americans. While four vaccines are available in the US, and masks widely available, too few are fully immunized and most of the population has stopped wearing protective masks. The ongoing consequences of this include continue...

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Autores principales: Poland, Gregory A., Issa, Meltiady, Sundsted, Karna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9622385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36464465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2022.10.022
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description SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, has now killed 1 out of every 303 Americans. While four vaccines are available in the US, and masks widely available, too few are fully immunized and most of the population has stopped wearing protective masks. The ongoing consequences of this include continued excess morbidity and mortality, the generation of immune-evading variants and sub-variants, and in toto are injurious and ultimately self-defeating. Herein we briefly update and review COVID-19 vaccines, waning immunity, and new variants.
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spelling pubmed-96223852022-11-01 Year Three of COVID-19: Harsh Truths, Brutal Realities, and Glimmers of Hope Poland, Gregory A. Issa, Meltiady Sundsted, Karna Mayo Clin Proc Special Article SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, has now killed 1 out of every 303 Americans. While four vaccines are available in the US, and masks widely available, too few are fully immunized and most of the population has stopped wearing protective masks. The ongoing consequences of this include continued excess morbidity and mortality, the generation of immune-evading variants and sub-variants, and in toto are injurious and ultimately self-defeating. Herein we briefly update and review COVID-19 vaccines, waning immunity, and new variants. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9622385/ /pubmed/36464465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2022.10.022 Text en © 2022 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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