The 10 new flu-related deaths in children bring the season's total to 226, the most since 2009-10.
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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A 4-year-old boy living outside of Milan with no travel history is now the earliest confirmed SARS-CoV-2 case in Italy, a team based in Italy reported in a research letter to Emerging Infectious Diseases yesterday.
The UK warns that those with a severe allergy history should avoid getting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Staff infection rates were higher than for students, and nearly half of the outbreaks involved staff-to-staff transmission.
In vaccine developments, as advisors prepare to consider the first vaccine EUA tomorrow, questions are already swirling about which workers should be prioritized as part of essential groups.
Also, 63% of Americans are now willing to be immunized, up from 50% in September.
A large study of childcare providers in Pediatrics today found that childcare staff were not at higher risk for COVID-19 during the early months of the US pandemic.
As the US COVID-19 markers head further into red zone territory, the feds press states and cities to do more to curb transmission.
The peer-reviewed data mirror unpublished results noted last month by the researchers, with up to 90% protection.
Two large studies find no increase in pandemic-related stillbirths or preterm births or among UK and US women.
Only 1 of 62 newborns who nursed and roomed with an infected mom tested positive.
