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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Nearly 72% of US clinicians working in safety-net clinics had mild to intense moral distress.
Children aged 4 to 14 years can accurately self-collect nasal swabs for COVID-19 testing after viewing simple instructions, suggests a study late last week in JAMA.
With 137 newly confirmed infections, cases on the Diamond Princess reach 355.
mRNA booster protection against severe COVID-19 was 87% and didn't wane for 6 months.
One study describes an increase in US hospital deaths during a surge, 1 notes a rise in the risk of dying at home, and 1 notes decreased hospital deaths in New York City.
The prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in the United States declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, but inpatient mortality and treatment costs were higher, according to a paper published yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
The drugs reduced disease progression, hospitalization, and death in people 65 and older.
Central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated events, and C difficile infections all increased.
At a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing today, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said COVID-19 deaths for 2022 alone passed 1 million this week, as he pressed countries to do more to vaccinate all healthcare workers, older people, and others at highest risk. Since the pandemic began in early 2020, 6,472,848 deaths have been reported, according to the Johns Hopkins online dashboard.
Whether the increase was caused by COVID-19 or other factors remains unclear.
