The overall case-hospitalization rate among patients was 5.7%.
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 JAMA Network Open study late last week suggests that a pattern of delayed medical care during the pandemic may be responsible for a greater incidence of a ruptured appendix related to appendicitis in children.
Review of 57 studies finds that only 8 of 213 household COVID-19 clusters (3.8%) had a pediatric index case.
The latest CDC steps provide a bridge to when vaccines will be widely available.
Though it's an observational study and can't prove cause and effect, it holds promise.
The findings may be related to living and working conditions and other factors.
"You've got to stick with this or your health system won't be able to cope."
While younger adults with no underlying health conditions have been considered safer from COVID-19's severe outcomes, of those who were hospitalized, 22% were admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), 10% needed mechanical ventilation, and 0.6% (3 patients) died, reports a study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Strategies for a secure drug supply chain discussed at National Academies public workshop.
Neither remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, nor interferon-beta-1a—prevented death or other serious outcomes.
CDC Director Redfeld says the next few months will be "the most difficult in the public health history of this country."