In summer 2020, 11% had moderate to severe depression, but the rate rose to 22% by spring 2021.
Patients with COVID-19 also saw a sixfold higher rate of in-hospital deaths.
How much of a role HIV status has on mpox progression and as an independent risk factor for contracting the virus is unknown.
The pathogen can persist on hospital surfaces for prolonged periods and has limited treatment options.
The asymptomatic cases are similar to those reported in workers who responded to outbreaks last year in Spain and the United States.
Transplant patients who receive a heart from a COVID-19–infected donor may be at greater risk for death, with the risk doubled at 1 year.
Beginning in May 2022, the UK, Spain, and the US saw a growing number of cases of mpox primarily among men who have sex with men.
In other US developments, the Biden administration signaled its pick for the next CDC director, and the FDA revoked the EUA for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Cannabis-related emergency department visits rose with COVID-19, with weekly visits higher in 2020, 2021, and 2022, compared to the same weeks in 2019.
Scaling up preventive TB treatment for people with HIV/AIDS and household contacts of newly diagnosed TB patients could save nearly 850,000 lives by 2035, experts estimate.
The results of a phase 2 trial show the experimental vaccine, when given to pregnant women, substantially reduced the risk of group B streptococcus infection in their infants.
Americans with ADHD are struggling to find good alternatives to the stimulant Adderall.
More than 500,000 Indiana residents ages 12 to 110 years were included in the study.
HHS is expanding access through stockpiles that had been reserved for use in a future flu pandemic.
Frequent staff testing had the biggest impact in the prevaccine months, but still made a difference through the Omicron wave.
Antibiotic receipt for COVID-19–related outpatient visits ranged from 4% in children 5 and under to 16% in adults ages 45 to 65.
But the authors caution that watch histories substantially affect video recommendations, complicating the picture.
Four to 6 months after a fourth dose, immunoglobulin G levels had regressed to three-dose levels.
Long-COVID patients were more likely to have reflux, peptic ulcers, pancreatitis, dyspepsia, gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, and other GI conditions.
A total of 162,886 of these excess natural-cause deaths (90% PI, 14,276 to 308,480) were not reported as COVID-19.
At 3 months, 17% of the intervention group reported that their overall health was "much better now," compared with 8% in the usual-care group.
The authors acknowledge that the findings may have been influenced by confounding factors and bias.
The new outbreak-related death was in Oregon; the previous two were in Minnesota.
