In healthy children with no comorbidities, the absolute risk of critical disease from COVID-19 was 4%.
In other developments, H5N1 was detected in feral cats in New Mexico and more dairy herds in affected states.
Breast cancer screening tanked and then rebounded in the first pandemic months, while cancer treatment disruptions varied by race, age, and wave.
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