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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Oxygen supplies are needed for the nation's 1,700 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and other critically ill patients.
An investigation led by Canadian Food Inspection Agency scientists has identified a new and highly divergent lineage of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in white-tailed deer (WTD) in that country. The findings, which are not peer-reviewed, are published as a preprint study on bioRxiv.
One study finds no link, and the other shows a marginally higher incidence in Pfizer recipients.
More than 5 million children have lost a parent or caregiver during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a modeling study published yesterday in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
Efforts are under way to overhaul the nation's COVID-19 strategy.
Severe COVID in moms was linked to pre-labor C-section, preterm birth, stillborn birth, and infant intensive care.
Fully 40% of patients who rely on prescription drugs suspect that supply chain disruptions will put them at risk.
A seroepidemiologic survey of 7,010 people in Gauteng province, South Africa, before the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant outcompeted the Delta strain shows that 80% of those older than 50 years had antibodies against the virus, with most seropositivity likely generated by previous infection.
The risk is 1 case in 1 million vaccinated, compared with 200 in 1 million unvaccinated adolescents.
The WHO says the more transmissible BA.2 Omicron subvariant is now dominant in 18 nations.
