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UN agencies warn of erosions on schooling in West Asia, as well as on employment and maternal health in Latin America.
Biden's goals are to keep schools open, mandate vaccines for all federal workers, and increase testing.
Patients diagnosed as having metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) after COVID-19 lockdowns in France had significantly higher tumor burdens and died sooner than those diagnosed before the pandemic, shows a multicenter study yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
A study of US veterans hospitalized with community-acquired sepsis shows an overall decline in time-to-antibiotics, with significant variation across hospitals, researchers reported this week in JAMA Network Open.
The variant spread faster and more efficiently than previous strains, even as adult immunizations rose.
For the first time, children account for more than a quarter of new weekly COVID-19 cases.
Global COVID-19 cases and deaths remain at a high plateau, with the Americas as a hot spot region.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced the creation of Public Health AmeriCorps through a partnership with the federal agency for volunteering and national service, AmeriCorps. The new program will help recruit, develop, and train new public health leaders.
The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a collective 91% vaccine efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 infection in Americans 16 years and older, according to a test-negative study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases today.
As global cases top 220 million, surges continue in Southeast Asia and Oceania.
About 100,000 Americans are currently hospitalized because of COVID-19.
Study reveals a small link between school closures and worse mental health, particularly in older and minority students.
A new study by researchers in Pakistan details the impact and response to treatment among children diagnosed as having extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid infections.
Results from an observational cohort study of pregnant women indicated a 96% vaccine effectiveness (VE) against COVID-19 infection and an 89% VE against hospitalization for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in pregnant women, according to a study in Nature Medicine today.
The US surge has driven child COVID-19 hospitalization rates to pandemic highs.
The state has stepped into oxygen negotiations, created resource depots, and taken other actions.
Also, Africa is struggling to meet its end-of-September vaccination coverage goal of 10%.
None of the specified outcomes in 6.2 million vaccine recipients met the criteria for a safety signal.
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) against the Delta (B1617.2) variant was 65% in those fully vaccinated, according to a population-based study in Norway. The results, published in Eurosurveillance yesterday, looked at 4,204,859 infected adults without previous COVID-19 from mid-April to mid-August.
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