During the pandemic, mortality rates increased significantly for men, people of color, non-urban residents, and people in the South and West.
In the 19 states with COVID-19 vaccine mandates, weekly COVID-19 vaccination rates weren't statistically significantly different before and after mandate implementation.
Just over 40% of mothers said their young babies had received Beyfortus, the new RSV antibody vaccine.
Both controls and cases in the trial had an approximate mortality rate of 15% at day 90.
Nationally, 6.4% of US adults reported ever having experienced long COVID
Treatment shortened symptoms by a day and also reduced viral loads.
Long COVID was not associated with any one trimester of pregnancy.
The NIH is investing $515 million more in its long COVID research program.
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.
The mortality rate for babies born to mothers who were vaccinated during pregnancy was half the rate of those whose mothers were unvaccinated.
The study combined data from 3 earlier smaller studies across 6 diverse sites.
Along with a rise in blood-related diagnoses, healthy adults experienced rises in endocrine and digestive conditions.
Overall protection among adults against symptomatic COVID-19 was 54%.
People with rheumatologic autoimmune diseases and HIV had an only slightly elevated mortality risk compared to immunocompetent patients.
More than half (53.5%) of patients with PCC had a response speed slower than 2 standard deviations from the control mean.
Obesity prevalence among children ages 4 to 5 years increased by 45% during the first year of the pandemic.
The toilet seat had the most contamination, while walls had little.
At 90-days post-infection, 8% of vaccinated cases were still reporting symptoms, compared with 27% of unvaccinated cases.
Both sperm concentration and total sperm number were significantly lower 3 months after infections.
The six studies that examined all-cause death and the 13 on diabetes-related death showed consistent increases in both.
Non-exclusive licensing of the yeast strain by developers will allow others to develop effective, low-cost vaccines.
Whole-genome sequencing of samples from the animals revealed four novel mutations not found in public databases as of November 2023.
The length of COVID-19 symptoms was on average 36 hours shorter in the simnotrelvir group.