Emphasizing shared clinical decision-making with providers, the CDC now says healthy children ages 6 to 17 "may" receive COVID vaccination if a parent or guardian wants it.
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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US outcomes were poorer early in the pandemic, even in counties with low death rates.
The first 20 million vaccine doses could be available in December, officials say.
The drug, which has antiviral properties in animals, shows promise in a small randomized controlled trial.
An antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) intervention led by ambulatory care pharmacists was associated with improvements in guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing in a family medicine residency clinic, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
In a preliminary study conducted on 152 patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections, no patient in a group of 80 people who took a 15-day course of fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, reported clinical deterioration, as opposed to 6 (8.3%) of 72 who took a placebo.
Hospitalizations rose in all but 4 states this week, with the steepest increases in the Midwest, and deaths jumped by nearly 23%.
The findings suggest the need to develop safer measures in similar settings involving young adults, such as for schools and camps.
Of 176 patients, 32 (18%) tested positive via RT-PCR, but only 1 had infectious virus.
Also, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing another $70 million to a WHO vaccine initiative.
A meta-analysis of 50 studies and 18,728,893 US and UK patients with COVID-19 found that black people were 2.02 times more likely and Asians 1.50 times more likely to be infected with COVID-19 compared with white people. The researchers also found that Hispanic people had a 1.77 adjusted risk ratio (RR), but none of the applicable studies had been peer reviewed.
