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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Also, Moderna says its vaccine likely protects against B117 and B1351 variants.
New reports touch on the pandemic's economic toll and on the benefits vaccine equity could have.
Antibiotics were widely prescribed to hospitalized COVID-19 patients at Dijon University Hospital in France during the first wave of the pandemic but did not have any impact on outcome, French researchers reported yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
An intensive COVID-19 prevention and surveillance system that the National Football League (NFL) put in place this season identified certain types of risky in-club transmission, which helped officials revise its high-risk contact definition and improve its protocols.
All regions saw decreases in adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions, but especially the Midwest.
A new UK study says the B117 variant might be more deadly than older strains.
Anthony Fauci, MD, however, says he's concerned about new variant viruses.
As the pandemic has made hand sanitizer ubiquitous, perhaps it was inevitable that clinicians would report sanitizer-related eye injuries in children.
Twelve health departments said less than 32% of contacts were notified within 24 hours.
The ECDC raises the risk of spread of new variants to very high as the UK struggles with the B117 strain.
