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The overall protection against long COVID from vaccination is likely even higher, because these estimates don't account for infections prevented by vaccines, the authors say.
Illnesses have been occurring since 2018, mainly in nursing home residents, with the latest cases reported this year.
Only 11% of survivors resumed full-time work by 6 months, while 12% went back to part-time work.
Nine of the state's counties have now reported cases, though most infections are from the Gaines County epicenter.
Cases in Cambodia have been on the rise, many of them fatal and some involving a novel reassortant.
In other H5N1 developments, the USDA confirmed detections at live-bird markets in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Portuguese biotechnology company Immunethep is receiving $2 million from CARB-X to develop a conjugate peptide-based vaccine against E coli.
A study of primary care patients in 5 European countries finds the mean antibiotic course duration for common respiratory infections was 7.5 days.
A survey reveals that 98% of US pediatric ASPs meet CDC Core Elements for antibiotic stewardship, but most reported insufficient funding.
Of children aged 5 to 10 years, about 40% had abnormal lung function post-treatment, rising to 65% in older children.
The top motivator for getting vaccinated was a strong clinician recommendation.
New Mexico reported more cases in an adjacent county, with a few new confirmations from Texas in the community around Dallam and Hartley counties.
Hydroxychloroquine use was evenly distributed across the United States, but outpatient use of ivermectin was significantly higher in southern states.
The CDC notes that the poultry worker from Ohio had been hospitalized with respiratory and nonrespiratory symptoms.
The funds will help vaccinate 370 million children annually.
A survey of the province's public hospitals and microbiology labs finds that the rate of new patients with carbapenemase-producing organisms doubled from 2022 to 2023.
Amid a post-pandemic increase in pediatric M pneumoniae cases, researchers find rising rates of macrolide-resistance mutations at Ohio children's hospitals.
The county is in southwestern Indiana, on the border with Illinois and Kentucky, both of which are CWD-positive.
The Trump administration also terminated advisory committees on long COVID and health equity.
The CDC says it does not anticipate posting any more updates on US respiratory disease activity this season.
