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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Elsewhere, the WHO launches a plan to battle COVID-19 in 2021; it needs $2 billion to meet its 6 goals.
Also, the White House says it will spend $650 million to expand testing for schools and congregate settings.
An analysis by Canadian researchers suggests that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is highly efficacious, according to a letter published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
"For months the scientific evidence has been clear: Aerosol transmissions are a major way this virus spreads."
The authors conclude that pregnant women should be broadly prioritized for COVID-19 vaccine allocation.
The B117 variant has now been detected in 94 countries, with local transmission occurring in 47.
Almost one in five meat processing workers in Nebraska contracted COVID-19 from April to July 2020, but after facility-wide mitigations and strategies were put in place, new cases appeared to decrease, according to an Emerging Infectious Diseases report yesterday. The researchers found that men and Hispanic/Latinos showed the highest burden in case numbers and severity.
South Africa officials say they'll share AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine with other African nations.
Also, COVID-related cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children have reached 2,060.
COVID-19 patients in a Warsaw, Poland, hospital had a significantly lower mortality rate when treated with convalescent plasma, especially early, according to a study published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
