COVID-19

Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News

The use of complementary respiratory virus tracking tools in schools, including air sampling, may help detect outbreaks.

Study on masks vs N95 respirators for health workers spurs concerns

Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.

COMMENTARY: Navigating COVID language traps

Peter M. Sandman, PhD

Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.

News briefs

Analysis shows racial disparities in COVID ICU admissions in California

US delays, mixed messages in COVID booster rollout may have cost nearly 30,000 lives

Study spotlights how COVID-19 admissions burdened ICUs

Young adults more prone to anxiety, depression during COVID-19 than older adults, data show

Jim Wappes

Feds offer free COVID tests to US school districts

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Maintaining coping strategies during pandemic tied to lower risk of anxiety, depression

Coping strategies ranged from using humor and distraction to denial and planning.

Cancer patients with COVID at higher risk of death, hospitalization amid Omicron

The 30-day death rate after COVID-19 diagnosis was twice as high in the cancer group than in controls.

Quick takes: RSV vaccine supply, Novavax COVID vaccine gets WHO nod, H1N2v flu case in UK

Federal officials have been working with companies to find ways to boost the supply of the new vaccine for newborns.

WHO upgrades BA.2.86 to COVID-19 variant of interest as US proportions grow

The CDC today said though the BA.2.86 proportion jumped, it doesn't yet appear to be driving case increases.

Undiagnosed pneumonia outbreak in China puts pressure on pediatric hospitals, prompts questions

Media reports describe overwhelmed children's hospitals in multiple locations in China.

Kids largely left out of US trials of COVID-19 treatments

Of 1,216 trials, 2% enrolled only children, while 10% included only children or both children and adults, and 90%) enrolled only adults.

Half of COVID survivors still had symptoms at 3 years, more reinfections amid Omicron

Amid Omicron, relative to participants without long COVID, those with long COVID at 2 years had significantly higher rates of reinfection and pneumonia.

MRI study spotlights impact of long COVID on the brain

Diffusion microstructure imaging reveals microstructure changes in patients with long COVID and in those who were infected with COVID-19 but did not develop lingering symptoms.

UK primary care costs nearly 45% higher among long-COVID patients, analysis finds

The COVID-exposed group had a 22.7% higher primary care visit rate than the unexposed group.

1 in 3 US adults worry about respiratory virus infections this fall and winter

Yet more people said they likely won't receive the COVID-19 booster than said they would get it (44% vs 40%).