The overall case-hospitalization rate among patients was 5.7%.
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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UK hospitals in the hardest-hit areas are struggling, and deaths are up 46% in the past week.
Nonwhite Americans, those with low incomes or less than a high school education, and veterans were much more likely to die of COVID-19 than others in a simulation study published yesterday in PLOS Medicine, backing the findings of previous research.
Symptoms like fatigue, breathing problems persisted in 76% of patients.
In New York City, deaths caused by ischemic heart disease increased 139% during the pandemic.
As the world sees its deadliest day of the pandemic so far, China announces dates for a mission to arrive to probe origins of the virus.
California, Arizona, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Rhode Island have the highest case rates.
In COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) early in the pandemic, 82% were in a comatose state at some point and 55% experienced delirium, reports a Lancet study published late last week. Previous studies have connected ICU delirium to higher costs, greater mortality risk, and long-term dementia.
"Vaccine nationalism hurts us all and is self-defeating."
Also, the Biden team proposes a new COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan.
Studies spotlight limited in-school COVID-19 spread in North Carolina, Sweden, and Norway.