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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Seventy-two percent of respondents say the benefits of MMR vaccines are very high or high, and 64% say the risk of side effects is very low or low.
Transplant patients who receive a heart from a COVID-19–infected donor may be at greater risk for death, with the risk doubled at 1 year.
The WHO's outside experts saw a need for better protection against XBB lineages and had several reasons for dropping the ancestral strain.
COVID-19 patients had a longer hospital stay and a 69% higher mortality rate than ICU patients with influenza.
The percentages of misclassified vaccination status using linked IIS and claims data were lower than those using data from the CDC, state health departments, and a capture-recapture analysis.
A lack of exposure to respiratory syncytial virus in the first 2 years of COVID-19 may have led to the global resurgence of the virus in 2022 and 2023.
The economic burden of healthcare worker infections ranged from $2 million in Eswatini to $163 million in South Africa.
A lower proportion of infants with COVID-19 had co-occurring UTIs, bacteremia without meningitis, and bacterial meningitis.
An analysis of nearly 3 years of patient data finds no evidence of major changes in the level of inappropriate or repeat antibiotic prescribing in primary care.
The study was based on data collected from 4.8 million people who received at least one dose of the Moderna vaccine.
