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The flu has so far caused 66 deaths, including four in children. Last year at this time, there were 33 deaths. “We haven’t seen many pediatric deaths in Massachusetts, thank goodness, for a while, but we are seeing them this year,” said Dr. Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “Overall, it’s shaping up ...


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In research that analyzed blood samples from more than 140 participants, scientists led by Dan H. Barouch tracked immunologic and inflammatory responses over time in patients who developed long COVID as compared with patients who fully recovered from COVID. The team found key differences in patients who developed long COVID and evidence of persistent chronic inflammation long...


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“It’s possible they’re both correct,” said Dr. Dan Barouch, an author of the study and director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

But what excites Barouch about the chronic inflammation hypothesis is that several anti-inflammatory drugs already exist. Based on the study’s data, Barouch said Beth Israel Deaconess Me...


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Even with universal vaccination for newborns as the standard, universal testing for hepatitis B during pregnancy remained an important part of prenatal care in the United States for decades. The ACIP decision puts even more emphasis on that practice, said Dr. Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Bosto...


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Ninaad Lasrado, postdoctoral research fellow in the Barouch Lab, presented a study on bird flu, which is highly lethal in poultry and dairy cattle and a 


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