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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In-hospital COVID death rates are declining, but the virus still poses substantial risk, including a doubled death rate in surgical patients.
Even countries that managed earlier outbreaks well face surges, and officials say they're tracking the variant fueling India's rise.
Slavitt said vaccination is still the main tool to end the pandemic, and he encouraged all Americans to get the vaccine next week, when eligibility expands.
UK researchers have uncovered the novel mechanism behind rare abnormal blood clotting seen in some AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine recipients, according to a study today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Should studies show COVID-19 effectiveness, fluvoxamine's supply chain looks resilient, an expert says.
COVID-19 poses 8 to 10 times the risk of blood clots in the brain than do COVID vaccines, a preprint study finds.
"This has put Brazil in a permanent state of mourning and led to the near collapse of Brazil's health system."
About 43% of Republicans, 5% of Democrats, and 22% of Independents say no to the vaccine.
The P1 SARS-CoV-2 variant, which was first identified in Brazil, may be more than twice as transmissible as non-P.1 lineages, and it may lower protective immunity from non-P1 variants 21% to 46%, according to a study published yesterday in Science.
ACIP experts will gather more data and likely meet again in 7 to 10 days.
