Mayo Clinic Strategies for COVID-19: Revamping Outpatient Care for Patients Without COVID-19doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.06.010Colleen B. StorinoJames C. WatsonWilliam SanchezMichael J. BrownConor G. LoftusMayo Clinic Proceedings
Mayo Clinic researchers studied the outcomes of treating high-risk patients for COVID-19 with a five-day oral regimen of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, which are together marketed as Paxlovid. Out of 483 high-risk patients, only a handful developedCOVID rebound symptoms, and the scientists say...
Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - The Mayo Clinic today announced a decision to require all of its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The mandate is scheduled to take effect on September 17th. It covers all Mayo employees at all Mayo locations. Any employee who refuses to be...
Dr. Richard Kennedy, co-director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, says even though younger children have tended to fare better with COVID-19, the reality is that some are still getting sick and even dying of the disease. More children were hospitalized during the omicron spike than ...
Ultimately, the weighing of risks to benefits depends on whether hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, is truly an effective treatment against COVID-19. "If it is, we hope that this simple QTc surveillance strategy, enabled by innovation and the FDA's emergency approval, will help pr...
ROCHESTER -- It's been a busy and stressful eight months for health care workers across the country, and while a COVID-19 vaccine is being shipped out across the country, frontline workers know their work isn't done. A panel of Mayo Clinic employees shared their perspectives Tuesday afternoo...
Anews releasesays the research project conducted by the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine found "key human genomic signatures" that could explain why some people develop a severe illness and others only experience mild symptoms from a COVID-19 infection. The researchers discovered "varian...
of symptoms, ranging from minor to disabling, that persist more than four weeks post-COVID infection. These symptoms have not only been identified in patients who had severe symptoms of COVID-19 requiring intensive care unit treatment, but also those who only experienced mild-...
A state park with an abundance of space has the potential to lessen risk. We've been recommending 6 feet based on the droplet transmission that COVID-19 is spread by, so if the setting of the reunion allows for attendees to maintain space to limit everyone's exposure, that would lessen ...
A Mayo Clinic study shows that people who use e-cigarettes are not more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than non-vapers.