The West has had the highest wastewater detections for most of the summer, but levels have now declined a bit according to the CDC's latest update.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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The authors said 2021 was the first year since their creation that SDGs had a marked decline in progress.
Primary care visits for long COVID represented only 12% of patient visits after COVID-19 infection.
Compared to influenza, COVID-19 patients had longer ICU stays.
The death rate was 17% higher in 2020 than in 2019 in India, implying an estimated 1.19 million excess deaths.
Researchers found a 43% drop in DR-TB case notifications in a South African province after COVID-19 lockdowns were implemented.
Two wastewater systems show high levels across most of the country.
In the entire cohort, 17,704 infants (5.2%) had a major congenital anomaly.
Rural children had longer travel times than their urban peers in all demographic subgroups and both vaccine age-groups.
A total of 15,700 death certificates listed COVID-19 as a contributing condition, and 3 of 4 recorded a COVID-19 complication or pre-existing condition as the cause.
The highest risk of developing long COVID was seen among patients infected with the original strain of the virus, when no vaccines were available.