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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Though downstream disruptions affected naloxone access, upstream supply has been solid.
From January to August 2020, 17% more US assisted living residents died compared with the same months in 2019, and excess deaths hit 24% in the hardest-hit states, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter yesterday.
Eight states in the South and West recorded rising 7-day averages for infection rates over the past 2 weeks.
In other global developments, the WHO welcomes vaccine donations from the G7 meeting.
International medical graduate physicians, or IMG physicians, make up about 25% of the practicing physicians in the United States, but they have made up 45% of COVID-related physician deaths, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter late last week.
The vaccine showed 100% protection against severe illness and 93% against variants of concern.
COVID-19 surges continue in South America, now the hardest-hit continent, and Africa is seeing a host of vaccine issues.
The FDA says 60 million doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine cannot be used because of possible contamination.
Preventive anticoagulation dosing for blood clots in the veins was tied to lower 60-day death rates.
A surveillance study of US children during the first wave of the pandemic found that multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) was a rare complication associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, but incidence was significantly higher in non-White racial and ethnic groups, US researchers reported yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
