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Interest in getting the newly approved RSV vaccine varies by factors such as age and underlying health status, according to a survey of older US adults.
Caregivers with lower levels of education reported more stress during the first 2 years of the pandemic.
One of the big questions is how well the variant evades immunity from earlier infection or vaccination.
The combination of the RTS,S/AS01E vaccine and preventive drugs was superior to the drugs or vaccine alone in preventing the mosquito-borne disease.
Amoxicillin and clindamycin were the most prevalent antibiotics prescribed (63% and 14%, respectively).
The vast majority of patients had community-onset invasive E coli (94%) and required hospitalization (97%), with 32% of patients needing ICU treatment.
The study focused on the population of Tsimane, a voluntarily isolated community in Bolivia that is more than 60 miles from the nearest market town.
The case involves a 27-year-old woman from Sichuan province, marking China's fifth H5N6 case of the year.
The WHO guidance replaces temporary recommendations, Florida has 15 dengue cases now, and Connecticut confirms 4 people infected with the tick-borne Powassan virus.
The report from the Access to Medicine Foundation calls responsible antibiotic manufacturing both a "moral imperative" and a business priority.
COVID-19 ICU admissions decreased for preschoolers, but the need for mechanical ventilation in hospitalized children that age remained steady.
Only 35% of the 80 studied long-COVID signs and symptoms became nonsignificant 2 years after infection among hospitalized veterans.
FDA's approval is for use of the vaccine, called Abrysvo, at 32 to 36 weeks gestational age of pregnancy.
The BA.2.86 sequence was from Virginia, and the patient had traveled from Japan and was asymptomatic.
Of the funding, $1 billion goes to 4 BARDA research partners to support phase 2b clinical trials of vaccine candidates.
A deep-learning model can evaluate chest x-rays to predict whether COVID-19 patients will need intensive care.
The risk of excess death was highest on days 0 to 90 after infection and was elevated sixfold.
While the exact cause of hypertension is unknown, it is possible that SARS-CoV-2 causes cardiac dysfunction and blood pressure dysregulation via the ACE2 receptors.
The vaccine effectiveness of 4CMenB in fully immunized children was 95% using the screening method and 92% using the case-control method.
The patient, who lives near Washington, DC, was hospitalized and is recovering.
