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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Twenty-five patients (2.7%) in the interferon group were hospitalized or visited an emergency department, compared with 57 (5.6%) of placebo recipients.
Three vaccine doses were 73% effective against maternal Omicron infection and 80% effective against infant Omicron hospitalization.
Subvariant patterns are in flux, with BA.5 Omicron lineages still dominant, but XBB.1.5 gaining ground.
All genomes belonged to the existing 123 Pango lineage, demonstrating no persistently dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants or new strains.
Data reveal that 60% of cancer patients still have COVID-19 symptoms for 7 months after infection, similar to the general population.
Early during COVID-19, 622 more US physicians died than expected, but no excess deaths occurred after April 2021, when vaccines were broadly available.
Over the first 2 years of the pandemic, global antibiotic sales increases were linked with rises in COVID-19 cases.
Conservative physicians were five times more likely than their peers to say that they would treat a hypothetical COVID-19 patient with hydroxychloroquine.
Of 1,981 COVID-positive women, 44.0% developed long COVID, of whom 87.0% reported symptoms lasting at least 2 months.
Early in COVID-19, rates of lung and breast cancer screenings among Medicare enrollees were 24% and 17%, respectively, below expected rates, rising to -14% and -4% later on.
