Current vaccine strains show high neutralization against the latest variants, but the LP.8.1 antigen may provide similar or moderately higher cross-reactive antibody response.
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 authors say the findings underscore maxminizing vaccine coverage and consideration of boosters for teens, if research supports it.
BA.4.6 levels are highest the Midwest region that includes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
A scientific literature review for empiric examples of impacts from 10 climate hazards influenced by greenhouse gas emissions found that more than 58% of human diseases caused by pathogens—such as dengue, pneumonia, and Zika virus—are made worse by the climate-related hazards. A team based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa reported the findings today in Nature Climate Change.
The authors said high vaccination levels, indoor masking, stepped-up surveillance, and enhanced air filtration kept classroom transmission at a negligible level.
New studies continue to shed new light on the long-term impacts of COVID, including the development of cardiovasular and kidney complications in kids.
With COVID activity still high in many counties, Paxlovid prescribing is rising as another study shed light on rebound prevalence.
Polio in New York state is circulating more widely than thought, with wastewater sampling revealing traces of the virus in a second county, the New York Department of Health (NYDH) announced yesterday.
Only one-fifth say they plan to have their preschooler vaccinated within 3 months.
EMS workers are scrambling to adapt treatment protocols and conduct training on their use.
Three quarters of a group of nonhospitalized men and women newly diagnosed as having COVID-19 continued to have positive rapid antigen test (RAT) results—and over one-third still had viable virus on culture—6 days later, according to a study led by Brigham and Women's researchers.
