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The oral antiviral drug umifenovir, which is used to treat influenza, appears to be beneficial in COVID-19 patients who are asymptomatic or with mild symptoms, with a phase III study showing that the drug is well tolerated and can induce viral clearance within 5 days.

Patients with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), even those genetically predisposed to the disease, are not at increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation, and vice versa, a study has found.

A large study conducted in Israel has suggested that the effectiveness of the BNT162b2 vaccine against COVID-19 decreases over time.

Long-term exposure to particulate matter ≤2.5 μm (PM2.5) results in increased admission to hospital for COVID-19, according to a recent study.

A decline in daily physical activity (DPA) among patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) over a year is noteworthy and disproportionate to a decline in pulmonary physiology, suggests a recent study, noting that this change in DPA may be used as a prognostic tool to assess disease progression.

The pan-sarbecovirus monoclonal antibody sotrovimab appears to reduce the risk of COVID-19 disease progression in high-risk patients, according to interim results of the phase III COMET-ICE* trial.

In post hoc analyses of the phase III SINUS-24 and SINUS-52 trials, the monoclonal antibody dupilumab continued to render improvements for patients with severe chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), as well as among those with comorbid asthma regardless of asthma characteristics.

Secondary analysis of the DARE-19* trial presented at ASN Kidney Week 2021 has shown that the effect of dapagliflozin in patients with cardiometabolic risk factors hospitalized with COVID-19 is consistent regardless of kidney disease status.