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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Different approaches may be needed in the future, experts say, such as vaccines that target a specific variant.
Fully 92% of side effects during the first 6 months of the US vaccine rollout were mild and short-lived.
Three percent of 10,403 adults with COVID-19 pneumonia were diagnosed as having new-onset dementia after a median of 182 days, a significantly higher proportion than that observed with other types of pneumonia, finds a study yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
The roadmap advises against school closings, lobbies for more tests, and details when restrictions should lift.
Concerns are growing that continued spread could create COVID-19 virus reservoirs in animals.
Social determinants of health tied to COVID-19 death rates vary by race and community type, a new study finds.
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with congenital heart defects (CHDs) were more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), require invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), and die than those without CHDs in the first 11 months of the pandemic, suggests a study published today in Circulation.
Death rates were 22% to 25% lower despite a 41% ICU rate, compared with 18% in other hospitals.
The CDC says 90% of Americans are in areas with low or medium levels of COVID-19.
The estimated effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine against infection in US adolescents was 91%, with 93% protection against symptomatic illness and 85% against asymptomatic disease amid the Delta SARS-CoV-2 surge in Connecticut, finds a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
