Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-related hospitalization was 38% in the 2 months after receipt of one dose and 34% at 2 to 4 months.
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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Sufficiently active participants had a 10% reduction in infection and a 27% lower chance of hospitalization.
Adults and kids have, respectively, a 50% and 40% higher risk of having shortness of breath after recovery from COVID-19.
So far, the cases have been detected in 3 South African provinces and aren't fueling a resurgence in cases.
COVID-19 was associated with a 30% increased subsequent risk of a first cardiovascular event.
The authors acknowledge that the findings may have been influenced by confounding factors and bias.
Influenza B activity is fueling rises in the Midwest and Central regions.
Outpatient visits of all types but surgery were higher among infected veterans than among their uninfected peers, with an increase of 5.1 per 30 days.
At 3 months, 17% of the intervention group reported that their overall health was "much better now," compared with 8% in the usual-care group.
Functional decline during or after hospitalization is tied to adverse health outcomes, prolonged hospital stays, and more episodes of early hospital admission.
A total of 162,886 of these excess natural-cause deaths (90% PI, 14,276 to 308,480) were not reported as COVID-19.