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Researchers using genetics, data science to study why COVID-19 is more severe in some people

 

Why do some people have a more severe course of COVID-19 disease than others? A genome sequence database created by an international collaboration of researchers, including many from the University of Toronto and partner hospitals, may hold the answers to this question—and many more.

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Paxlovid cuts hospitalization, death only in COVID patients with weak immune systems -- Canadian study

 

...in JAMA Network Open, an observational Canadian study ties the antiviral drug combo nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) to a lower risk of hospitalization or death only in very high-risk COVID-19 patients with weakened immune systems.

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U.S. and Canada: Cancer diagnoses fell early in COVID pandemic, but many types eventually climbed again

A pair of new studies documents initial drops—and, in some cases, rebounds—in cancer diagnoses in Canada and the United States in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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