But flu vaccination wasn't tied to a reduction in key COVID-19 symptoms.
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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Overall, the risk of developing 28 out of 36 long-COVID symptoms lessened when vaccines were effective.
The greatest levels of trust were seen among men, those with university degrees and high median outcomes, and those who had lost someone to COVID-19.
Among about 9 million healthcare personnel working in more than 4,000 acute care hospitals, flu vaccine coverage was 81%.
One study found a 25% and 42% higher risk of long COVID among obese and severely obese children, respectively.
A 3-year-old white-tailed doe tested positive for the fatal prion disease on routine postmortem testing.
While rates of patient injuries and infections are on a downward trend, they had not returned to prepandemic levels by 2022.
Data from US pharmacies indicates the volume of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions, after falling sharply in 2020 and 2021, rose to 2019 levels by the end of 2022.
Due, in part, to campus shutdowns, students' rates of on-campus use of mental health services decreased from 59% to 44%.
Paxlovid was associated with a 61% lower risk of hospitalization.
Though the KP.3.1.1 variant is still dominant, levels of the newer XEC variant continue to rise.
