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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A single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was immunogenic in 92% of recipients, with no difference in immunogenic response between men and women but a decreasing response among older recipients, researchers from Israel's Bar-Ilan University reported yesterday in Eurosurveillance.
Those fully vaccinated and exposed to a case no longer need a 14-day quarantine.
Patients given the monoclonal antibody were less likely to die or need a ventilator.
"Right now, it’s a thin line between the hope of a vaccine and a false sense of security," a European official says.
Presymptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 cases contributed at least 50% of transmissions during New York City's first COVID surge, according to a study published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
New CDC data show the fit of face masks may significantly reduce COVID-19 spread.
Also, the WHO says overall cases and deaths are falling, but more nations are reporting variant viruses.
Hospitalized adults with COVID-19 are 3.5 times more likely to die than adults with the flu, reports a study today in CMAJ. The study also found that those with COVID were 1.5 times more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and have 1.5 times longer hospital stays.
Nursing homes with more than 40% non-white residents had COVID-19 death rates 3.3 times higher.
"Learn the lesson of Tuskegee and do everything in our power to ensure African Americans get the vaccine."
