ACIP's chair signaled that new work groups will take up 2 new topics: cumulative vaccine doses in children and impacts from established vaccines, including hepatitis B in infants.
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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In a study with implications for COVID-19 transmission, mild coughing can expel small saliva droplets through and around a face mask and travel as far as 1 meter (3.3 feet), according to a study published yesterday in Physics of Fluids.
Of the total, 3.8 million COVID-19 cases have been reported in the Americas, where the pandemic is accelerating.
Underlying conditions place 22% of people at increased risk for severe COVID-19 and 4% at high risk.
Also, NIAID Director Fauci says speeding a vaccine through trials is not compromising safety.
Unpublished data from a large randomized controlled trial in the United Kingdom indicate that dexamethasone, a cheap, widely available steroid, reduces deaths in hospitalized COVID-19 patients requiring respiratory support.
"What I'm afraid I see happening is people are kind of over it. This is old news; we're going to move on."
The agency says the drugs "are unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19 for the authorized uses."
For the past 2 weeks, more than 100,000 new global cases have been reported almost every day.
Data on passengers on the Diamond Princess reflect differences between symptomatic and symptomatic cases.
An investigation by Chinese and US scientists of a cluster of COVID-19 infections in China provides evidence that the coronavirus can spread through casual contacts at social gatherings.
