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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The test-to-stay strategy avoided an estimated 7 to 20 days of quarantine per child, with no significant increase in infections.
Inflammation of myeloid cells and activation of immune proteins that are part of the complement system stood out blood from long COVID patients, but it's not clear if that applies to all types of long COVID.
Among blood donors with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, 23.6% reported long-term neurologic symptoms.
Spanish-speaking Hispanic women had the highest self-reported rate of any COVID-19 vaccination.
Rural residence was associated with a 22% higher all-cause mortality.
Physicians with the largest proportion of unvaccinated patients were more likely to be male.
With the drop in flu activity gaining momentum, several parts of the US are now below their regional baselines.
Participants with long COVID had a 21% lower peak volume of oxygen consumption at baseline.
More policy work is needed to prevent future supply-chain disruptions and prioritize key drugs at the greatest risk for shortage, the authors say.
Patients in the neurologic cohort were more likely to die post-discharge compared to controls.
