About 4,800 lives could have been saved during the winter 2021-22 Omicron wave if just 5% of COVID-19 patients had taken the antiviral drug, modelers estimate.
Fitbit tracking and the participant survey found that lower step counts persisted, even after COVID restrictions eased.
The study combined data from 3 earlier smaller studies across 6 diverse sites.
The mortality rate for babies born to mothers who were vaccinated during pregnancy was half the rate of those whose mothers were unvaccinated.
The authors acknowledge that the findings may have been influenced by confounding factors and bias.
COVID-19 was associated with a 30% increased subsequent risk of a first cardiovascular event.
So far, the cases have been detected in 3 South African provinces and aren't fueling a resurgence in cases.
Long COVID was not associated with any one trimester of pregnancy.
The NIH is investing $515 million more in its long COVID research program.
When compared with White counterparts, Hispanic patients had a higher mortality risk.
Post-traumatic stress disorder was the most common psychiatric condition, affecting 26% of patients.
At 12 months, 20.3% of COVID-exposed children and 5.9% of the controls received a diagnosis of neurodevelopmental delay.
The Home Test to Treat program offers home COVID and flu testing, telehealth visits, and treatment—if needed—for uninsured and underinsured adults.
After schools reopened, preschoolers aged 3 to 5 years with special educational needs had significantly fewer emotional and behavioral problems, but adolescents had worse behavior.
The authors said their findings should result in a more urgent push to vaccinate pregnant women, especially Black and Hispanic patients.
The prevalence of overweight and obesity was significantly higher in MIS-C than KD (41% vs 23%).
The median time to symptom resolution was 6 days, and 12% of participants still had symptoms at day 10.
No long COVID was reported among vaccinated athletes.
Current vaccines neutralize current variants, but there are limited data on the impact against JN.1, a steadily rising part of the BA.2.86 family.
The findings came from the European Primary Oral Insulin Trial.
The 5-year grant was awarded to the Icahn School of Medicine.
Among survey respondents, 64% reported very good to excellent hospital support for their infection prevention and control programs, but 49% said they were burned out.
"Other services," manufacturing, transportation, and retail trade also had higher death rates.
The team will collect more than 20,000 samples from wildlife such as eastern chipmunks, gray squirrels, and raccoons.
By day 29 of the trial, 11.2% in the remdesivir group and 11.3% in the control group had an adverse cardiac event.
