Associated Press 10:53 a.m.: After a year home in sweatpants, Americans are updating their closetsĪfter a year of being stuck in sweatpants, pajamas and fuzzy slippers, Americans are starting to dress up and go out again. Here’s a look at what’s on the horizon and the options now. The biggest need is for a convenient medicine such as a pill “that can prevent people with symptoms from getting worse and needing hospitalization,” he said. Anthony Fauci, recently told the National Press Club. government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. serious disease requiring hospitalization, and occasionally even tragic deaths,” the U.S. “We’re seeing more and more young people get into serious trouble. While vaccines are helping to curb the pandemic, easier and better treatments are needed, especially as virus variants spread. Other medicines for sicker patients can speed recovery, but only a few improve survival. Treatments like these can help newly diagnosed patients avoid hospitalization, but they are grossly underused because they require an IV. I was showering, eating, playing with my son.” After two days, “I really started turning the corner.

They quickly arranged for her to get a novel drug that supplies virus-blocking antibodies, and “by the next day I was able to get up and move around,” she said. But when the 30-year-old nurse arrived at a Long Island hospital last month, so short of breath she could barely talk, doctors knew just what to do. If Priscila Medina had gotten COVID-19 a year ago, she would have had no treatments proven safe and effective to try. Chicago Tribune staff 11 a.m.: A pill for COVID-19? Here’s what treatments are available for the virus now and what’s on the way. There were 50,512 doses of the coronavirus vaccine administered Sunday and the seven-day rolling average of daily doses is 105,873. There were 49,236 tests reported in the previous 24 hours and the statewide positivity rate as a percent of total test is 3.5%. Illinois public health officials on Monday reported 2,137 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, and 10 additional deaths, bringing the state’s totals to 1,323,170 cases and 21,836 fatalities. Associated Press 12:10 p.m.: 50,512 vaccine doses administered, 2,137 new COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths reported The AstraZeneca vaccine is widely in use around the world but not yet authorized by the U.S. The move greatly expands on the Biden administration’s action last month to share about 4 million doses of the vaccine with Mexico and Canada.

will begin sharing its entire pipeline of vaccines from AstraZeneca once the COVID-19 vaccine clear federal safety reviews, the White House told The Associated Press on Monday, with as many as 60 million doses expected to be available for export in the coming months. Karie Angell Luc, Lake County News-Sun 1:45 p.m.: US to share entire supply of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines once it’s approved here

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