The combined vaccine elicited higher immune response against SARS-CoV-2.
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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"If we really want to put COVID behind us, we have to keep the fight together," President Biden says.
Age-adjusted US COVID-19 death rates in 2020 were 30% higher in large, central metropolitan areas than in medium-sized cities, finds a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis.
"What's needed are vaccines that are durable, with a wide breadth of protection."
The CDC says BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are spreading fairly quickly but still make up only a small proportion of all variants.
A study published late last week in JAMA Network Open links systemic symptoms—those that affect the entire body—after receipt of two doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with stronger SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses than in vaccinees with no or localized symptoms.
Study adds further evidence that the antiparasitic drug is ineffective as a COVID-19 treatment.
A third of US active-duty military service members who tested positive for COVID-19 reported new-onset or more difficulty with exercise and daily activities 1 month after diagnosis, but these symptoms diminished to pre-infection levels after 6 to 9 months, according to research presented at this week's Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) ID Week in Washington, DC.
The vaccine in kids 6 months to 5 years triggered similar immune response and protection as in young adults.
The vaccine advisory group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today approved changes to the child and adolescent immunization schedule, which adds COVID-19 vaccine to the recommended immunizations. The recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) passed on a unanimous 15-to-0 vote.
On top of 2020 losses, life expectancy fell further in 2021 in 12 countries, including the US.
