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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Over the first 2 years of the pandemic, global antibiotic sales increases were linked with rises in COVID-19 cases.
Conservative physicians were five times more likely than their peers to say that they would treat a hypothetical COVID-19 patient with hydroxychloroquine.
Of 1,981 COVID-positive women, 44.0% developed long COVID, of whom 87.0% reported symptoms lasting at least 2 months.
Early in COVID-19, rates of lung and breast cancer screenings among Medicare enrollees were 24% and 17%, respectively, below expected rates, rising to -14% and -4% later on.
The more transmissible XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant continues to gain ground in all US regions.
The Centers for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing had difficulty reliably producing larger drug product amounts.
Overall 2-dose protection against Omicron-related hospitalization or death remained above 70% for at least 6 months.
The global vaccination rate in 2022 for people older than 60 was 76%, but it was only 33% in low-income countries.
Retail-pharmacy (non-VA) dispensing of the unproven COVID-19 treatment "potentially harmed patients while resulting in wasteful insurer spending."
COVID-19 cases have declined 78% worldwide over the past 28 days, but deaths rose 65% over the same period, the WHO says.
