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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Compared with booster recipients, the rate was 10.5 times higher in unvaccinated adults and 2.5 times higher in vaccinated but not boosted adults.
COVID vaccine boosters or third doses after an initial two-dose series are well tolerated in pregnant and lactating women, according to a large cohort study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The findings from 2 large clinical trials—one in the UK and one in Norway—discount the notion that vitamin D supplements protect against COVID-19 or other respiratory-tract infections.
Researchers in Taiwan have discovered a new mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.3.7 subvariant that they suggest may be responsible for severe neurologic complications observed in young children on the island. Their study was published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Among a cohort who never had COVID-19 but tested positive within 1 year after baseline, depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, and concerns about infection were linked to a 33% to 50% increased risk of self-reported postinfection symptoms lasting at least 4 weeks, as well as functional impairment, finds a study published today in JAMA Psychiatry.
Next week the WHO will publish 6 policy briefs that outline steps governments can take to reduce transmission and save lives.
Today JAMA Network Open published a study showing a 1.8% COVID-19 infection rate among in-person attendees at a February 2022 Academic Surgical Congress conference in Florida in which 100% of participants were vaccinated and 92% were boosted.
An estimated 10.5 million lost parents or caregivers to COVID-19, with 7.5 million orphaned.
A study of 346 previously healthy COVID-19 survivors finds that 73% had cardiac signs and symptoms more than 3 months after infection, and 57% still had them at nearly 1 year.
Low testosterone was tied to a 2.4-fold higher risk of hospital care with COVID-19.
