Higher-risk activities included carpooling with relatives and attending concerts.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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As seen in other studies, there was a higher incidence of thrombocytopenia after first dose of AstraZeneca compared with no vaccination.
Among participants with diabetes and no history of depression, the incidence of new depression was 13%.
Among the nearly 600,000 survey responses, trust in doctors and hospitals plummeted from 72% to 40% across socioeconomic groups
Participants with diabetes had higher odds of both hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss.
The top predictor of needing respiratory support was B-lines.
Changes in infection control practices and strategies to conserve personal protective equipment may have played a role in MDRO outbreaks at US hospitals, CDC researchers found.
The number of favorable lifestyle factors was tied to the risk of long COVID in a dose-dependent manner.
Deer mice, opossums, raccoons, groundhogs, Eastern cottontail rabbits, and Eastern red bats had signs of infection, and isolates from an opossum showed a unique mutation closely matching the Omicron variant in circulating in humans at the time.
The West has had the highest wastewater detections for most of the summer, but levels have now declined a bit according to the CDC's latest update.
Overall, there was high vaccine uptake in the sample, with 88% of parents and 80% of youth receiving at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
