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In the Global Healthy Living Foundation’s latest COVID-19 Patient Support Program poll, more than 40 percent of patients surveyed said they wear two masks at the same time for better COVID-19 protection. Most started doing so within the last two months.
It may not be time to ease up on your COVID-19 mitigation efforts quite yet.
The $1.9 trillion virus relief bill is more than just stimulus checks or extended unemployment benefits. Here’s a look at how it impacts health insurance costs, which is particularly important for people living with chronic illness.
This finding adds more to a growing body of evidence that people should keep taking their autoimmune and rheumatic disease medications throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Rheumatologists and public health experts are urging most autoimmune and immunocompromised patients to get vaccinated as soon as they can. If you have concerns, consider discussing these questions with your doctor for reassuring answers.
The key takeaway of this study is really that rheumatic patients with lower disease activity seem to fare better than those in high disease activity if they contract COVID-19.
Texas is my home and has my heart — so why can’t it use common sense and work harder to keep chronic illness patients like me safe during the pandemic?
Here’s what rheumatologists and other specialists are telling their patients about getting the vaccine even during higher than usual disease activity.
The second dose appears to have less of a booster effect on these individuals, studies show.
Public health experts and doctors want most people with autoimmune conditions, who are immunocompromised, or who take immunosuppressant medication to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s what you need to know.