The sensitivity of RATs was 47%, compared with RT-PCR and 80% versus viral culture.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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Adults with psychiatric disorders were hospitalized at a rate of 394 per 100,000 person-years.
Partially vaccinated and unvaccinated patients were at significantly higher risk for death in the Delta and Omicron periods.
Some states in the Central and Midwest regions are reporting high or very high flu activity.
COVID vaccine effectiveness against heart failure and blood clots in the veins and arteries was 22%, 53%, and 45%, respectively, in the month after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The CDC said the cases are a reminder that vaccination is an important tool for preventing MIS-C, which can be severe or even fatal.
The most pronounced association was seen in men younger than 75 years, who had a 78% lower death rate (3% vs 14.0%).
On average, healthcare providers more strongly agreed that scarce resources shouldn't be allocated to patients less likely to survive.
Delayed care, resource constraints, and emergency department crowding by COVID-19 patients likely contributed to the worse outcomes, the authors say.
The long COVID treatments in the trials target autonomic nervous system dysregulation, which triggers some of the most burdensome symptoms.
A literature review found pneumococcal conjugate vaccines were associated with some protection against flu and other viral respiratory tract infections.