An open letter signed by dozens of medical and public health organizations urges payers and insurers to continue covering COVID vaccines for pregnant patients.
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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The increases come as poll data show 1 in 4 young adults say they are not likely to get the vaccine.
Much of the increase in cases is led by the more transmissible Delta variant, which has now been detected in 111 nations.
Half of 399 hospitalized COVID-19 patients developed bacterial infections 48 or more hours after hospitalization, according to a PLOS One study yesterday. The bacterial superinfections were associated most strongly with lung disease, encephalopathy, mechanical ventilation, hospital stay of 8 or more days, and steroid treatment.
Two doses of the vaccine were safe and 78% effective in preventing infection in pregnant women.
The country is ordering oxygen supplies from other nations, enough for home treatment.
There have been 100 cases of a rare neurologic syndrome in 12.8 million US J&J recipients, mostly in men over 50.
Today a consensus statement by several leading public health organizations and a commentary in the Annals of Internal Medicine voiced support for mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in US healthcare workers (HCWs).
The FDA and the CDC said so far there are not enough data to recommend a booster.
WHO head Tedros urges Moderna and Pfizer to go all out on channeling vaccine supply to COVAX.
Two doses of different vaccines were 80% to 89% effective in at-risk patients 65 years and older.
