The risk of long COVID was two to three times higher after the initial infection (14.8%) than after first (5.8%) or second (5.3%) reinfections.
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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Adults with blindness and deafness were less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a large study of adults published today in an early online edition of JAMA Ophthalmology.
More durable protection would be an advantage, since frequent mRNA vaccine boosting may be hard to sustain long-term.
Japan reported a record daily high today, and South Korea's daily total reached a 4-month high.
One day after the United States said it would allow intradermal, fractional dosing of Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine, Jynneos, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for more trials on the practice.
In the first known estimate of the SARS-CoV spillover risk from bats to people, researchers who studied bat populations in South East Asia and interactions with humans estimate that about 66,280 people a year are infected each year. The team, based at EcoHealth Alliance, published their findings today in Nature Communications.
The authors say the findings underscore maxminizing vaccine coverage and consideration of boosters for teens, if research supports it.
BA.4.6 levels are highest the Midwest region that includes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
A scientific literature review for empiric examples of impacts from 10 climate hazards influenced by greenhouse gas emissions found that more than 58% of human diseases caused by pathogens—such as dengue, pneumonia, and Zika virus—are made worse by the climate-related hazards. A team based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa reported the findings today in Nature Climate Change.
The authors said high vaccination levels, indoor masking, stepped-up surveillance, and enhanced air filtration kept classroom transmission at a negligible level.
New studies continue to shed new light on the long-term impacts of COVID, including the development of cardiovasular and kidney complications in kids.
