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Antibiotic receipt for COVID-19–related outpatient visits ranged from 4% in children 5 and under to 16% in adults ages 45 to 65.
After a moderate rise over the winter holidays, US COVID indicators are showing downward trends.
Also, the single available medical code for long COVID may not capture the wide variation in symptoms and severity.
Moderna vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic Omicron was 60% 2 weeks to 2 months after the second dose and 36% from 3 to 4 months after the second dose.
The percentage of outpatient visits for flulike illness remained just above the national baseline.
There have been 221 confirmed Shigella sonnei infections and 37 possible cases from the EU, UK, and US.
At least 11 people have been sickened and 10 hospitalized in the multistate outbreak going back several years.
Long COVID was tied to a 16% reduced odds of working full time (25% for those with cognitive impairment) and a 23% higher probability of unemployment.
Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Uruguay reported their first highly pathogenic H5N1 detections in different wild bird species.
Adults hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infections in Switzerland died at 1.5 times the rate of those diagnosed as having influenza A or B.
The company will offer no-cost access to vaccines after the government phases out covering them when the Public Health Emergency winds down in May.
After adjustment for risk factors, adherence to clinical guidelines was identified as a major protective factor.
A meta-analysis finds that antibiotics may be associated with more than a quarter of cases of rare, serious drug reactions that affect the skin and mucous membranes.
Of all participants, 59% had organ damage at 1 year—even those with non-severe infections.
Alternatives to Bacillus Calmette-Guerin are tied to many negative consequences, including adverse effects and premature organ loss.
Experts conclude that sustained incidence of illness in a few nations, along with underreported detection of cases, was enough to maintain emergency status.
Multidrug-resistant Salmonella gradually increased over time in both intestinal and product samples.
People with asthma experienced worse control of their asthma after they had recovered from mild to moderate COVID-19.
Testing done on samples from about 5,000 deer harvested in last year's hunting seasons in Iowa revealed that 84 deer were positive for CWD.
COVID-19 may act as a disease accelerator, amplifying the risk of a diabetes diagnosis that may have come later in life.
