The group weighed considerations about newer variants and raised concerns that a strain recommendation might interface with the FDA's new proposed COVID vaccine framework.
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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Too-high pulse oximetry readings led clinicians to believe patients weren't ill enough for certain therapies.
Though falling or holding steady elsewhere, COVID cases are still increasing in the Americas region.
Three COVID-19 vaccine doses offer good protection against infection and hospitalization, including those caused by variants of concern—regardless of brand, type, or combination, according to an ongoing meta-analysis published yesterday in BMJ.
The findings reveal substantial global collateral damage during the pandemic.
In the US, the more transmissible BA.2.12.1 subvariant now makes up nearly 60% of sequenced samples.
About 75% of COVID-19 deaths in the least-vaccinated Chicago areas could have been prevented if their uptake would have equaled that of the highest-coverage areas during the Alpha and Delta variant surges, suggests a study late last week in JAMA Network Open.
Long COVID can affect even fully vaccinated people after mild breakthrough infections.
International survey finds 62% reported 1 or more symptoms of burnout, and 31% reported 2.
Symptomatic COVID-19 cases are responsible for more viral transmission than asymptomatic infections, suggests an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of 130 studies published yesterday in PLOS Medicine.
Weekly prescriptions for oral COVID-19 antivirals rose from about 27,000 to more than 182,000 in 7 weeks.
