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A crowdsourcing appeal for creative solutions for safely reopening the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill amid the COVID-19 pandemic in fall 2020 netted 82 submissions from 110 students, faculty, and staff, according to a qualitative study today in JAMA Network Open.
Vaccinating with both Pfizer and AstraZeneca is linked with more systemic symptoms in older adults.
"If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic."
The world's second most populous country has only 2.8% of its population fully vaccinated.
The inaugural cohort of Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Activity Rehabilitation Program (CARP) for post–COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) were mostly women, younger, had few pre-existing comorbidities, and experienced milder forms of COVID-19, but only a third were able to return to full-time work.
An analysis of administrative claims data in Japan found that newer, third-generation fluoroquinolones were not associated with an increased risk of Achilles tendon rupture, Japanese researchers reported this week in the Annals of Family Medicine.
The 8-month probe chronicled several failures that still fuel massive surges, with experts recommending a host of bold overhauls.
A trial of the Pfizer vaccine in 2,260 young teens found only 1 serious side effect, a fever higher than 104°F.
The researchers estimate a 40% increase in the annual incidence of resistant Salmonella.
Half of the patients had altered brain function or structure, and almost 1 in 5 were in a coma.
Watching a brief video about antibiotic treatment prior to a family practitioner visit reduced patients' expectations about receiving antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) but had no influence on physician prescribing, according to a randomized controlled trial published this week in the Annals of Family Medicine.
Twice as many mothers with babies 6 months or younger reported postpartum depression during the first UK COVID-19–related lockdown, according to a Frontiers in Psychology study yesterday.
As daily cases stay above 300,000, scores of bodies turn up in some of India's rivers.
Tomorrow CDC advisers will vote on whether to recommend the shot for this age-group.
COVID-19 patients visited their GPs 20% more often and clinics 10% more often.
Compared with non-pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19, pregnant women with COVID-19 had lower in-hospital death rates, according to a research letter in the Annals of Internal Medicine today.
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding Australian diagnostics company SpeeDx up to $1.8 million to develop a rapid molecular diagnostic test for chlamydia and gonorrhea infections.
"We now have clear evidence that NSAIDs are safe to use in patients with COVID-19."
Also, India is reporting an increase in potentially deadly fungal lung infections.
The CDC says 44% of US adults are now fully vaccinated, as are 72% of seniors.
