The risk reduction in developing long COVID in kids was largely linked to reducing the risk of COVID infection in the first place.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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The results highlight the importance of beneficial coping behaviors during social upheaval, the authors say.
In its weekly respiratory illness snapshot, the CDC upgraded the level from low to moderate.
Food insecurity was the most prevalent indicator among adults with long COVID in all income and education groups other than the top income group.
But the risk of bacterial infections in COVID-19 patients was substantially elevated after 48 hours compared with the other viruses.
Those who reported COVID reinfections during the study period had the most symptoms through 24 months.
Vaccination conferred a protective effect, with 15% of vaccinees developing long COVID, compared with 46% of the unvaccinated.
In its annual National Influenza Vaccination Week messaging the CDC said there's still time to benefit from getting a flu shot this season.
Two doses of COVID vaccine before infection was tied to a 24% reduced odds of having long COVID.
Sex-based disparities in COVID-19 severity may be influenced by a complex interaction of genetic, hormonal, immunologic, and other factors, the authors say.
Postvaccination reactions were reported for 47% of children.
