Many of the problems in the mpox response were due to a deflated and exhausted public health workforce across the country.
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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Both controls and cases in the trial had an approximate mortality rate of 15% at day 90.
Nationally, 6.4% of US adults reported ever having experienced long COVID
Treatment shortened symptoms by a day and also reduced viral loads.
Average weekly outgoing transfers per hospital stayed lower than the prepandemic average of 12 transfers per week for most of the pandemic.
57% of those with post–COVID-19 condition—or long COVID—said they experienced symptoms of a cognitive (thinking) deficit daily.
Unlike reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, rapid antigen tests are still subject to misinterpretation by both patients and clinicians.
Long COVID was not associated with any one trimester of pregnancy.
The NIH is investing $515 million more in its long COVID research program.
Sufficiently active participants had a 10% reduction in infection and a 27% lower chance of hospitalization.
Adults and kids have, respectively, a 50% and 40% higher risk of having shortness of breath after recovery from COVID-19.