ACIP's chair signaled that new work groups will take up 2 new topics: cumulative vaccine doses in children and impacts from established vaccines, including hepatitis B in infants.
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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Several factors, not just the more transmissible Delta variant, are fueling rise that threatens oxygen and medical supplies, especially in lower income countries.
US COVID-19 vaccine disparities (CVD) were linked with income, education, political views, and race, according to a study yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The president also unveiled a new incentive plan and asked school districts to make more vaccine available for kids 12 and older.
Vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine against COVID-19 was 91% up to 6 months after the second dose, according to a non–peer-reviewed study published yesterday on the preprint server medRxiv.
Most cases were mild to moderate, but 1 in 5 patients had long COVID symptoms.
Meanwhile, Africa's vaccine supply show improvements, and Delta-driven surges increase in parts of Asia and the Middle East.
The studies, one on mental health in general and one on mood disorders, both found a higher death risk.
The WHO projects that, at the current pace, global cases could reach 200 million in the next 2 weeks.
The CDC says it's up to state and local officials to determine appropriate mask use, based on metrics.
COVID-19 reduced lifespan by up to 9 years in parts of the United States, per a new "mean unfulfilled lifespan" (MUL) metric, according to a study published yesterday in PLOS One.
The MUL is a new indicator of the impact of mortality shocks, such as the novel coronavirus or other natural disaster, on peoples' lifespan.
