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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The BA.2 Omicron subvariant now says makes up about 21% of sequenced global cases, the WHO says.
New cases have dropped 40%, hospitalizations are down 28%, and deaths have decreased by 9%.
A new study comparing excess years of life lost (YLL) during the first year of COVID-19 in parts of England and Wales shows that economically deprived areas suffered three times as many deaths as affluent regions, and young adults (15 to 44 years old) were 11 times more likely to die from the virus in poorer parts of the United Kingdom. The study is published in PLOS Medicine.
A second study shows how hard Omicron has hit kids, especially the unvaccinated.
A steady drop in US cases includes a substantial decline in children's infections, but in parts of Eastern Europe, cases have doubled in the past 2 weeks.
A large proportion of US COVID-19 patients were left with thousands of dollars of hospital bills after many health insurers stopped issuing cost-sharing waivers in early 2021, finds a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
Signs of vagus nerve dysfunction in long COVID patients include difficulty breathing and problems swallowing.
New daily cases fell 42% in the past week, deaths fell 6%, and hospitalizations fell 19%, while Americans are split on mask mandates.
Isolation beds at public hospitals have reached 90% capacity in Hong Kong, with 2,000 new cases reported.
People who received a different brand of COVID-19 vaccine booster than they did in the primary series had lower rates of infection than those who received the same brand, according to a study in Singapore published late last week in JAMA.
