“As it gets colder and we head towards winter, we will start to see respiratory infections pick up-please try to stay at home if you are unwell and avoid contact with vulnerable people.”

“All of the available boosters provide good protection against severe illness from COVID-19 and getting your booster sooner rather than later is crucial,” Susan Hopkins, MB BCh, chief medical advisor at the UK Health Security Agency, is quoted. We hope the Dispatch has proved useful to people trying to stay abreast of the research and policy news in this space.ĬOVID-19 hospitalizations are rising in England for the first time since early summer, the Guardian notes, citing the government’s coronavirus dashboard. Today’s Dispatch will be our last: we will continue to cover any SARS-CoV-2 news as it pertains to cardiology care. We’ve decided to press pause on TCTMD’s COVID-19 Dispatch, recognizing that though the pandemic is not yet over, it has entered a different phase, our readership has a wealth of other sources of information, and our primary focus is cardiovascular disease.

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