Over a 4-month period, protection with the Novavax vaccine was stable against symptomatic COVID infection.
Relative to controls, COVID-19 patients had significantly higher risks of conditions such as alopecia areata, alopecia totalis, Crohn disease, and sarcoidosis.
The findings were based on patients seen in King County, Washington.
Previously vaccinated children in a county with the greatest COVID-19 severity had a lower predicted probability of receiving a flu vaccine than those in a county with the lowest severity.
The latest Gates Foundation funds support mRNA vaccine production in Africa and other lower-income regions.
Seventy percent of those who did not use telehealth said they did so based on personal preference.
In temperate South America and the Caribbean, activity was low.
Hospital workflow delays resulted in slower stroke diagnosis and treatment during waves 1 and 2 and the lull, likely due to hospital SARS-CoV-2 infection-prevention mandates.
Florida's dengue cases have been concentrated in Miami-Dade County (47 cases) and Broward County (3), with single cases reported in Palm Beach, Hardee, and Polk counties.
A total of 28 experts are on the commission, from fields ranging from epidemiology, veterinary medicine, and food systems management.
The analysis comes during a year in which RSV has been the target of new vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapies.
The authors said the findings support vaccinating this age-group, despite low incidence of severe disease or hospitalization.
Global cases dropped 76% over the past 28 days, while deaths were down 66%.
The COVID-19 booster was 74% effective against Omicron infection compared with the primary vaccine series for 3 months, but protection waned to 36% after 6 months.
Although bacterial co-infections were identified infrequently in hospitalized US COVID-19 patients, they were associated with more than double the risk of death.
About 63% were prescribed empiric antibiotics, but only 7% had bacterial co-infection, and only 3% had a respiratory bacterial co-infection.
An unpublished study involving nearly 150,000 COVID-19 survivors who had mild infections in Salt Lake City suggests that many still had chest pain 6 months and 1 year later.
Long-COVID patients were more likely to have reflux, peptic ulcers, pancreatitis, dyspepsia, gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, and other GI conditions.
The US is finalizing a plan to ease screening of travelers from China, the World Bank is short on pandemic funds, and the UK announces a spring booster plan.
A roundup of international news on the COVID-19 pandemic.
US legislators vote to declassify info about SARS-CoV-2 origins, the Cochrane Review issues a clarification, and XBB.1.5 now makes up nearly 90% of US cases.
Fever and cough were more common with the Delta and Omicron variants, but rates of hospitalization and ICU admission stayed the same over time.
Protection of 4 doses of COVID vaccine against BA.5 infection among COVID-naïve participants was 16.1%, while it was 89.5% and 94.3% among those previously infected with BA.1 and BA.2, respectively.
"Currently available data show that vaccination remains the best defense against severe disease, hospitalization, and death caused by COVID-19 across all age groups."
The pregnancy-related death rate shot up faster in 2021 than in 2020, nearly doubling from rates in 2019 and hitting racial minority women hard.
