Sewer sampling, the authors say, could be expanded to track other infectious diseases such as H5N1 avian flu or mpox or to detect unexpected pathogens.
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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Roughly 18,900 Americans were hospitalized for the virus in the first week of September.
The platform's system architecture may have enabled anti-vaccine content producers and users to forge new paths to such content.
The team will collect more than 20,000 samples from wildlife such as eastern chipmunks, gray squirrels, and raccoons.
"Other services," manufacturing, transportation, and retail trade also had higher death rates.
Effectiveness against symptomatic COVID-19 was 75% in previously infected participants and 31% among those never infected.
This is the first study to quantify the effect of chronic diseases on racial disparity in COVID-associated hospitalizations, the authors say.
Among survey respondents, 64% reported very good to excellent hospital support for their infection prevention and control programs, but 49% said they were burned out.
The 5-year grant was awarded to the Icahn School of Medicine.
Though the biggest impacts are among oldest and youngest people, the data show disease burden across all age groups.
Immunity from prior infections is stronger at limiting contagiousness, but fades quickly, compared to immunity from vaccines, which was longer-lasting.
