Current vaccine strains show high neutralization against the latest variants, but the LP.8.1 antigen may provide similar or moderately higher cross-reactive antibody response.
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.
Get weekly COVD-19 updates in your inbox.
Catch the latest episode!
Top COVID FAQs
By CIDRAP & other experts
Read all 7 reports
Officials warn that Africa is at risk due to continued virus circulation and low vaccine uptake.
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.
