Sewer sampling, the authors say, could be expanded to track other infectious diseases such as H5N1 avian flu or mpox or to detect unexpected pathogens.
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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And in a new study, CDC data show more cases in kids as schools reopened, but only limited school outbreaks.
Patients not needing ventilators who were given high-titer plasma had a 34% lower risk of death within 30 days.
Almost half (45.4%) of intensive care unit (ICU) physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers in England reported a mental disorder during the pandemic, including suicidal thoughts, according to survey results published in Occupational Medicine yesterday.
"We're telling states now to vaccinate their most vulnerable people."
The cumulative pediatric hospitalization rate jumped from 2.0 per 100,000 children in May to 7.2 in November.
UK hospitals in the hardest-hit areas are struggling, and deaths are up 46% in the past week.
Nonwhite Americans, those with low incomes or less than a high school education, and veterans were much more likely to die of COVID-19 than others in a simulation study published yesterday in PLOS Medicine, backing the findings of previous research.
Symptoms like fatigue, breathing problems persisted in 76% of patients.
In New York City, deaths caused by ischemic heart disease increased 139% during the pandemic.
As the world sees its deadliest day of the pandemic so far, China announces dates for a mission to arrive to probe origins of the virus.
