The announcement comes just 2 days after Kennedy removed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee.
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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Cloth or surgical facial masks reduced SARS-CoV-2 RNA 77% in exhaled coarse aerosol particles and 48% in exhaled fine aerosol particles, offering "modest" source control, according to a Clinical Infectious Diseases study yesterday. The study also found that the Alpha (B117) COVID-19 variant contained 43-fold more fine-aerosol viral RNA compared with earlier virus strains.
The regimen involves 2 different vaccines and was shown safe in adults and children.
More than 243,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported from Sep 2 to Sep 9, the second highest weekly total of the pandemic.
While welcoming the move, African leaders pushed for multiple ways to boost vaccine access, including easing export bans.
Of the cancer patients, 62% reached the highest possible antibody levels.
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients were more likely to have autoantibodies, or self-attacking antibodies, than those without COVID-19, according to a study today in Nature Communications.
Americans are evenly split on requiring proof of vaccination for everyday activities.
Any gain "will not outweigh the benefits of providing initial protection to the unvaccinated," one expert says.
Researchers suggest low staff vaccination rate may have affected the outbreak.
US counties with more excess deaths not attributed to COVID-19 had less health insurance coverage and primary care as well as more at-home deaths, according to a research letter today in JAMA Network Open.
The researchers looked at 2020 data from the US National Center for Health Statistics for 2,096 counties with 319.1 million residents and divided county characteristics into quartiles.
