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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A total of 282,000 renters received an eviction notice in 2020 and 2021, during which time their observed death rate was 106% higher than expected.
Just over 40% of mothers said their young babies had received Beyfortus, the new RSV antibody vaccine.
Vaccine halved risk of medically attended COVID, reduced H1N1 flu risk by 60%.
Influenza B proportions are rising in regions where flu activity is trending upward.
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.