The 10 new flu-related deaths in children bring the season's total to 226, the most since 2009-10.
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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Prescriptions for kids dropped 27.1% last year during COVID, with antibiotic prescriptions declining at twice that rate.
The latest report looks at COVID-19 relief fund allocation, stockpiles, supply chains, and more.
While Latino people have lower rates of mortality despite their higher rates of poverty compared with White people in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic erased it, at least in Los Angeles County, according to a JAMA research letter yesterday.
The antibiotic didn't lower the rate of symptoms by 14 days in non-hospitalized patients.
Plus, mask recommendations are returning, with a pediatrics group calling for them for schoolchildren.
Elsewhere, countries in Southeast Asia report more daily record highs, and Tunisia's surge has toppled its healthcare system.
Eighty percent of survey respondents in 10 developing countries indicated a willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 65% in the United States and 30% in Russia, according to a study published late last week in Nature Medicine.
New studies highlight 203 symptoms, indicators for long COVID, and the condition's rarity in children.
"This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," CDC head says, as indoor masking returns to LA County.
Half of patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 across 302 UK hospitals developed one or more health complications within 28 days or discharge, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet.
