The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will now allow pharmacists to prescribe the drug Paxlovid to eligible patients with COVID-19. Previously the drug could only be obtained with a doctor’s prescription.
When data from 2020 and 2021 were analyzed separately for different age groups, the researchers found that the likelihood of death from COVID-19 increased in those aged 35-44 and 45-54 from the the fourth- and fifth-leading cause of death to the first- and second-leading cause of death. Among those 85 and older, COVID-19 was the second-leading cause of death in 2020, but dropped to third in 2021, likely because of targeted vaccination efforts in this age group, the researchers postulate.
The authors said that additional impacts of the pandemic on other causes of death may emerge in the years to come, such as increased cancer diagnoses or deaths because the pandemic prevented many people from getting the necessary screenings.It’s increasingly common to become infected with COVID-19 more than once. And some early research suggests that individuals may become sicker with each subsequent reinfection.
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