Reasons cited for accepting the option of refusing treatment included unreasonable risk to physicians and their families and labor rights and worker protection.
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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Patients in the neurologic cohort were more likely to die post-discharge compared to controls.
The antiviral drug likely has a gradient of benefit, with those at highest risk most likely to see the greatest benefit, experts say in an editorial.
The study took place at a school that serves vulnerable students in a setting where air quality improvements were made and then monitored.
Analysis of viral sequences uncovered 3 novel viral spike protein mutations.
By day 29 of the trial, 11.2% in the remdesivir group and 11.3% in the control group had an adverse cardiac event.
More than 70% of visits were by adolescents 12 to 18 years old.
Of US measles cases, 59% weren't vaccinated and immunization status wasn't known for 24%.
Flu levels trended downward for the second straight week, as markers for COVID and RSV continue steady drops.
While these associations were seen across all age-groups, they were more pronounced among older people.
Multiple sclerosis was associated with a 7-times-greater rate of COVID-19 hospitalization and quadruple the risk of death.