Early-stage diagnoses especially were lagging for lung and cervical cancers.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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Twenty-two percent believe the falsity that it's less risky to get infected with COVID-19 than to get the vaccine, up from 10% in 2021.
Researchers found that the pandemic was associated with only minor changes in youth mental health overall, but some groups of children fared better than others.
During the study period, 255 COVID-19-related attacks on HCWs were reported, with 18 killed and 147 injured, in addition to damage to 86 facilities.
The large amounts of adipose tissue in obese patients could explain the increase in disease severity and vulnerability to infection, the authors say.
During follow-up, 3% of patients with postvaccination myocarditis, 4% of those with post-COVID myocarditis, and 6% of those with the conventional type were readmitted for myopericarditis.
The most common diagnosis was depression, a history of which was a risk factor for mental illness after COVID-19 infection.
US health officials are eying ways to reduce the spread of the virus over colder months and the holiday season.
The agency approved of the single-strain mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for people aged 12 and older and granted emergency use authorization for those aged 6 months to 11 years.
Absenteeism rates were 10.6 percentage points higher among students learning from home in districts in the top quintile of poverty than those receiving face-to-face instruction.
Its benefits in reducing symptoms or severity are unclear, the authors say.
