The findings come on the cusp of the Northern Hemisphere flu and respiratory syncytial virus seasons and rising US COVID-19 cases.
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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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.
The team found a modest but statistically significant higher relative risk of having gestational diabetes in those who had COVID during pregnancy.
The index is a step toward a tool that could someday be used to identify long COVID in children but is not ready for clinical use, the authors say.
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers used the technique to characterize the bacterial pathogen population at an Italian hospital during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A second study found good protection against hospitalization--although uneven uptake--among pregnant women.
Students whose memories were more negative and contained more COVID-19 information fared worse over time.
