The 10 new flu-related deaths in children bring the season's total to 226, the most since 2009-10.
Plaque growth can lead to a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and other life-threatening cardiovascular events for as long as 1 year.
Post-exertional malaise, or exercise intolerance, was seen in 36% of those with long COVID.
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Uganda's health ministry today reported 14 more lab-confirmed Ebola cases, pushing the outbreak total to 109. Health officials also reported 2 more deaths, raising the total to 30. Earlier in the outbreak before the first cases were confirmed, the ministry reported 20 suspected cases, all of them fatal.
Compared with both uninfected people and COVID-19 outpatients, hospitalized COVID-19 patients were at dramatically higher risk for death, a blood clot in a vein, heart failure, and stroke within 30 days, suggests an observational study published yesterday in Heart.
"If we really want to put COVID behind us, we have to keep the fight together," President Biden says.
Age-adjusted US COVID-19 death rates in 2020 were 30% higher in large, central metropolitan areas than in medium-sized cities, finds a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis.
"What's needed are vaccines that are durable, with a wide breadth of protection."
The CDC says BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are spreading fairly quickly but still make up only a small proportion of all variants.
A study published late last week in JAMA Network Open links systemic symptoms—those that affect the entire body—after receipt of two doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with stronger SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses than in vaccinees with no or localized symptoms.
Study adds further evidence that the antiparasitic drug is ineffective as a COVID-19 treatment.
A third of US active-duty military service members who tested positive for COVID-19 reported new-onset or more difficulty with exercise and daily activities 1 month after diagnosis, but these symptoms diminished to pre-infection levels after 6 to 9 months, according to research presented at this week's Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) ID Week in Washington, DC.
The vaccine in kids 6 months to 5 years triggered similar immune response and protection as in young adults.
