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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An estimated 10.5 million lost parents or caregivers to COVID-19, with 7.5 million orphaned.
A study of 346 previously healthy COVID-19 survivors finds that 73% had cardiac signs and symptoms more than 3 months after infection, and 57% still had them at nearly 1 year.
Low testosterone was tied to a 2.4-fold higher risk of hospital care with COVID-19.
Soon after vaccine advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday voted to recommend updated COVID boosters that target the original virus plus the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, endorsed the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation, paving the way for immunization to begin.
Experts voted 13-1 to approve both boosters, which target the original strain plus the latest subvariants.
Children were more likely to be COVID orphans if they lived in poor nations with high chronic disease rates.
Infections with previous COVID-19 variants offer more protection against the Omicron BA.5 subvariant in vaccinated people compared with vaccinated people who had no previous infections, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study yesterday.
The CDC advisory group discussions begin tomorrow, as the top WHO official urged countries to prepare for rising cases in the months ahead.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, of the World Health Organization (WHO) today said many European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, were showing continued slowing of new monkeypox cases, while countries in the Americas (save for Canada) are still seeing increased case counts.
Parental risk factors for head trauma in babies during the pandemic included life stress such as job loss, intimate partner violence, and lifestyle changes.
