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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Cases are surging in central and eastern Europe, as well as in the west, where new illness numbers are already high.
States are grappling with how best to distribute vaccines to the most vulnerable residents as fast as possible.
A modeling study published yesterday in Science projects increased transmissibility of the B117 strain of COVID-19, also known as the UK strain, and warns that the strain could likely cause a resurgence of high virus activity in the United Kingdom and make 2021 a deadlier year than 2020.
Cases are leveling off just as the rate of the B117 variant climbs—a bad sign.
In the northern Amazon basin where cases are spiking, ICUs in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia are filling up with COVID-19 patients.
It's striking that mental healthcare increased significantly at the same time that overall medical care fell.
The P1 variant that caused a second wave of COVID-19 infections in Manaus, Brazil, is more transmissible and from 25% to 61% of previously infected people may be susceptible to reinfection, according to a preprint, non–peer-reviewed study from researchers at the University of Sao Paulo, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford.
Also, some lawmakers ask officials to examine delaying 2nd vaccine doses.
Two doses of the Pfizer vaccine were 85% to 90% effective against symptomatic illness in those 70 and older.
Low-resource nations have borne the brunt of shaky oxygen supply chains, even before COVID.
