ACIP's chair signaled that new work groups will take up 2 new topics: cumulative vaccine doses in children and impacts from established vaccines, including hepatitis B in infants.
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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One study finds that 35% of 77 patients had a heart attack while waiting.
The study is one of only a few showing preliminary data in older populations.
US cases in college-age people more than doubled as students went back to school, the CDC says.
Children have accounted for 12% to 15.9% of new cases in the past 8 weeks.
A JAMA Network Open survey study of US adults' preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation in the event of a limited supply ranks frontline medical workers, high-risk children, and high-risk older adults as highest priority for vaccine distribution.
Fifty-two of 54 patients who experienced cardiac arrest had nonshockable rhythms.
Cases in school-aged kids rose in September, with infections in teens twice as common and racial disparities that mirror adult trends.
Experts say rapid tests can help lower-income nations scale up their testing without specialized labs or staff.
A review by members of the National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel finds insufficient data to recommend for or against convalescent plasma for treating COVID-19.
The researchers calculate that about 9.3% of the population had been infected by July.
