The study was based on outcomes seen among women who received one or two mRNA COVID vaccine doses in the first trimester of pregnancy.
Nasal vaccines have the potential for reducing transmission and preventing milder illness.
The researcher also found leftover SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the gut as long as 2 years after infection.
Pre-existing sleep disturbances were tied to a 12% increased risk of COVID-19 infection and a 36% increased risk of long COVID.
The authors found that 37% of the COVID-positive group suffered quantitative olfactory dysfunction.
Type 1 diabetes incidence was 8.6 per 100 person-years during, versus before, the pandemic among uninfected participants and 14.0 among the infected.
Deer mice, opossums, raccoons, groundhogs, Eastern cottontail rabbits, and Eastern red bats had signs of infection, and isolates from an opossum showed a unique mutation closely matching the Omicron variant in circulating in humans at the time.
The top predictor of needing respiratory support was B-lines.
Among participants with diabetes and no history of depression, the incidence of new depression was 13%.
Of US measles cases, 59% weren't vaccinated and immunization status wasn't known for 24%.
The number of ED visits increased across the study period.
After the early months of the pandemic, antibiotic use at VA hospitals declined, even through subsequent COVID waves.
Between June 2019 and June 2023, AMI hospital encounters dropped by 20%.
Wastewater detections have now jumped to the "very high" level.
Children were less commonly vaccinated compared to adults.
More patients had a co-diagnosis of Kawasaki disease in 2023 (30.3%) than in 2021 (8.5%).
There were no significant uptake increases in states that offered both vaccine mandates and a test-out option.
Students whose memories were more negative and contained more COVID-19 information fared worse over time.
The vast majority of funds—up to $453 million—goes to Vaxart of San Francisco for developing an oral pill vaccine candidate.
In 2020, 1,033,122 excess deaths were recorded, and that number rose in 2021 to 1,256, 942.
A negative result indicates low immunity, but a positive result doesn't necessarily indicate sufficient immunity.
Over 78% were dirty, rendering them unsuitable for sterilization, the authors say.
The odds ratio of any persistent symptoms was more than double in COVID-19 patients.
The company said it will have the vaccine ready to distribute in mid July as prefilled syringes, pending approval and recommendations.
New CDC data show upticks in early COVID-19 indicators, but severity indicators remain unchanged from the previous week.
