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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Plus, mask recommendations are returning, with a pediatrics group calling for them for schoolchildren.
Elsewhere, countries in Southeast Asia report more daily record highs, and Tunisia's surge has toppled its healthcare system.
Eighty percent of survey respondents in 10 developing countries indicated a willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 65% in the United States and 30% in Russia, according to a study published late last week in Nature Medicine.
New studies highlight 203 symptoms, indicators for long COVID, and the condition's rarity in children.
"This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," CDC head says, as indoor masking returns to LA County.
Half of patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 across 302 UK hospitals developed one or more health complications within 28 days or discharge, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet.
About 23 million kids missed their basic vaccines in 2020.
Misinformation has led people to avoid effective approaches, causing avoidable illnesses and death, he says.
The drug was not tied to faster recovery, but the regimen might be why.
Yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine results from a phase 3 trial showed that a combination of bamlanivimab plus etesevimab monoclonal antibodies led to a lower incidence of COVID-19–related hospitalization and deaths.
