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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About 27% of kids hospitalized for COVID-19 or MIS-C had symptoms 2 to 4 months later.
COVID-19 patients early in the pandemic had 4% higher healthcare use in the 6 months after illness onset than matched controls, most notably for infection-related conditions, hair loss, bronchitis, pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis, and shortness of breath, finds a study today in JAMA Network Open.
The CDC also revised its school guidance, which no longer recommends cohorting or the test-to-stay strategy for exposed contacts.
In kids, lingering symptoms often occurred after mild illness and were more common in unvaccinated youngsters.
Adults with blindness and deafness were less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a large study of adults published today in an early online edition of JAMA Ophthalmology.
More durable protection would be an advantage, since frequent mRNA vaccine boosting may be hard to sustain long-term.
Japan reported a record daily high today, and South Korea's daily total reached a 4-month high.
One day after the United States said it would allow intradermal, fractional dosing of Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine, Jynneos, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for more trials on the practice.
In the first known estimate of the SARS-CoV spillover risk from bats to people, researchers who studied bat populations in South East Asia and interactions with humans estimate that about 66,280 people a year are infected each year. The team, based at EcoHealth Alliance, published their findings today in Nature Communications.
The authors say the findings underscore maxminizing vaccine coverage and consideration of boosters for teens, if research supports it.
