The 10 new flu-related deaths in children bring the season's total to 226, the most since 2009-10.
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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Antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections increased in the 2 years after COVID-19 lockdown measures were implemented.
The consequences of sticking with current dogma included the loss of many lives and huge economic repercussions, experts say.
The XBB.1.5 subvariant is now dominant in most US regions as a decline in infections appears to be leveling off.
Death rates among unvaccinated people were 14 times those of bivalent vaccine recipients.
Twenty-five patients (2.7%) in the interferon group were hospitalized or visited an emergency department, compared with 57 (5.6%) of placebo recipients.
Three vaccine doses were 73% effective against maternal Omicron infection and 80% effective against infant Omicron hospitalization.
Subvariant patterns are in flux, with BA.5 Omicron lineages still dominant, but XBB.1.5 gaining ground.
All genomes belonged to the existing 123 Pango lineage, demonstrating no persistently dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants or new strains.
Data reveal that 60% of cancer patients still have COVID-19 symptoms for 7 months after infection, similar to the general population.
Early during COVID-19, 622 more US physicians died than expected, but no excess deaths occurred after April 2021, when vaccines were broadly available.
