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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"The severity of your disease doesn't seem to predict how you're going to respond down the road."
Biden is also sending Anthony Fauci, MD to speak at the WHO's executive board meeting.
A 1% increase in a county's income inequality is associated with a 3% rise in COVID-19 deaths.
The WHO says further investigation is under way into two new variants recently detected in Brazil.
Twenty-eight–day in-hospital mortality rates decreased from 29.9% to 19.7% for adult COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) patients over the first wave of the pandemic, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine study published yesterday.
More than 60% of Americans prioritize public health over the economy.
The report aims to strengthen COVID-19 response now as well as prepare for future pandemics.
The risk of death was 2 to 3 times higher, depending on how close the ICU was to capacity.
The world added more than 2 million new COVID-19 cases in the past 3 days.
COVID-19 infection rates in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers are higher than those in the general population and eclipse those of surrounding communities, according to a research letter published today in JAMA Network Open.