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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The roadmap advises against school closings, lobbies for more tests, and details when restrictions should lift.
Concerns are growing that continued spread could create COVID-19 virus reservoirs in animals.
Social determinants of health tied to COVID-19 death rates vary by race and community type, a new study finds.
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with congenital heart defects (CHDs) were more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), require invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), and die than those without CHDs in the first 11 months of the pandemic, suggests a study published today in Circulation.
Death rates were 22% to 25% lower despite a 41% ICU rate, compared with 18% in other hospitals.
The CDC says 90% of Americans are in areas with low or medium levels of COVID-19.
The estimated effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine against infection in US adolescents was 91%, with 93% protection against symptomatic illness and 85% against asymptomatic disease amid the Delta SARS-CoV-2 surge in Connecticut, finds a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
A third dose with any of 3 COVID-19 vaccines boosted effectiveness substantially.
The gap between the groups did not close during the Delta and Omicron surges, a new study finds.
US officials announce the transfer of technology to a global effort to speed and share pandemic tools.
