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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From March 2020 to September 2021, women were more likely than men to lose their jobs, forego work to care for others, and report increasing violence, and women and girls were more likely than men and boys to drop out of school for reasons other than school closures, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet.
Test to treat will allow patients who test positive to be treated with free antiviral pills on the spot.
Surges continue to intensify in locations such as Hong Kong, where Omicron is still very active.
The study involved 24,915 US patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest, 24% of whom had COVID-19.
A retrospective study of 17 COVID-19 survivors with lingering symptoms reveals that 10 (59%) had nerve damage, which the researchers said could have been triggered by potentially treatable infection-related immune dysfunction.
Also, new data show moderate COVID vaccine protection in young kids against serious illness.
Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's or other types of dementia died at higher rates.
Fewer than half of US states requiring COVID-19 vaccination or routine testing of schoolteachers included childcare professionals in their mandates, leaving some young children vulnerable to infection by unvaccinated caregivers, according to a study yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
"When the number of patients with COVID-19 exceeds hospital resources, young, healthy Americans die who otherwise would have lived," a study author says.
Also, 3 preprint studies offer new clues that suggest a Wuhan market was the original source of SARS-CoV-2.
