Sewer sampling, the authors say, could be expanded to track other infectious diseases such as H5N1 avian flu or mpox or to detect unexpected pathogens.
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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A retrospective study of 17 COVID-19 survivors with lingering symptoms reveals that 10 (59%) had nerve damage, which the researchers said could have been triggered by potentially treatable infection-related immune dysfunction.
Also, new data show moderate COVID vaccine protection in young kids against serious illness.
Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's or other types of dementia died at higher rates.
Fewer than half of US states requiring COVID-19 vaccination or routine testing of schoolteachers included childcare professionals in their mandates, leaving some young children vulnerable to infection by unvaccinated caregivers, according to a study yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
"When the number of patients with COVID-19 exceeds hospital resources, young, healthy Americans die who otherwise would have lived," a study author says.
Also, 3 preprint studies offer new clues that suggest a Wuhan market was the original source of SARS-CoV-2.
Oxygen supplies are needed for the nation's 1,700 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and other critically ill patients.
An investigation led by Canadian Food Inspection Agency scientists has identified a new and highly divergent lineage of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in white-tailed deer (WTD) in that country. The findings, which are not peer-reviewed, are published as a preprint study on bioRxiv.
One study finds no link, and the other shows a marginally higher incidence in Pfizer recipients.
More than 5 million children have lost a parent or caregiver during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a modeling study published yesterday in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
