The clinical secondary attack rate for asymptomatic COVID-positive children was more than 10%.
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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The campaign focuses on avoiding enclosed spaces with people not in your "pod."
Data published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) show nearly double the COVID-19 mortality rate among people of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) ethnicity compared with whites.
Most German respondents preferred public health messages that acknowledge scientific uncertainty.
A 4-year-old boy living outside of Milan with no travel history is now the earliest confirmed SARS-CoV-2 case in Italy, a team based in Italy reported in a research letter to Emerging Infectious Diseases yesterday.
The UK warns that those with a severe allergy history should avoid getting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Staff infection rates were higher than for students, and nearly half of the outbreaks involved staff-to-staff transmission.
In vaccine developments, as advisors prepare to consider the first vaccine EUA tomorrow, questions are already swirling about which workers should be prioritized as part of essential groups.
Also, 63% of Americans are now willing to be immunized, up from 50% in September.
A large study of childcare providers in Pediatrics today found that childcare staff were not at higher risk for COVID-19 during the early months of the US pandemic.
As the US COVID-19 markers head further into red zone territory, the feds press states and cities to do more to curb transmission.