The treatment effect was strongest in healthcare workers 30 years and younger.
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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Also, a UK group adds more evidence that the B117 variant is about a third deadlier.
Patients on long-term dialysis were also more than 5 times likelier to be infected.
States continue to struggle with how best to reach the elderly and minorities, groups at greater risk for severe COVID-19.
Except for a slight decrease from Mar 29 to Apr 11, 2020, emergency department (ED) visits involving drug and opioid overdoses (ODs) were 1% to 45% more frequent than in 2019, according to a JAMA Psychiatry study published yesterday.
People age 35 to 49 have especially contributed to recent outbreaks.
Findings suggest the vaccine provides strong protection after 1 dose and could slow disease spread.
Though US numbers have fallen, the CDC head warns they are overall still very high.
Higher viral loads of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are associated with an increased risk of transmission, according to cohort study results from Catalonia, Spain, published yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases,
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding up to $6.4 million to French biopharmaceutical firm Mutabilis to develop a new class of antibiotics to treat infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) bacteria.
Also, vaccine doses sent to states will rise from 10 million to 10.5 million.