Critics said today’s announcement is more evidence of the current administration’s willingness to undermine public trust in vaccines.
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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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.
A letter yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists shows homologous (same-vaccine) boosting for Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine recipients was significantly less effective than mix-and-match booster doses when the Omicron strain was predominant in the United States.
Two global regions that saw recent increases in infections are now seeing downturns, but the US reports the most new cases and deaths.
Transmission of COVID-19 was significantly lower, and viable virus was detected for a shorter period, in fully vaccinated patients and staff isolated at a South Korean hospital than in their partially vaccinated and unvaccinated counterparts, finds a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The agency also alerts clinicians about COVID-19 rebound after Paxlovid.
COVID-19 patients had persistent signs of heart and lung involvement, inflammation, and clotting.
A study from Israel published today in BMJ shows that the effectiveness of a fourth dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's mRNA COVID vaccine waned faster than a third dose in adults ages 60 and older.
FDA advisers will meet in a few weeks to discuss emergency use of 3 doses.
Compared with Omicron, MIS-C rate was 14 times higher amid Alpha and 13 times higher during Delta.
