While antibiotic use at three Chicago hospitals increased in COVID-19 patients at the outset of the pandemic, it declined among non–COVID patients.
Relative vaccine effectiveness was an additional 50% against critical illness.
The study was based on outcomes seen among 660,000 UK patients from February 2020 to April 2021.
Risk factors for long or very long COVID included female sex, the presence of least one underlying condition, and moderate or severe COVID-19.
Patient blood samples showed signs of persistent immune-system changes believed to be related to long COVID.
The effect was smaller among females, Asian, Black, and Hispanic race, and patients with lower incomes.
The official report said the farm houses 70,000 animals.
Deaths were up a bit, but hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and test positivity trended downward.
Advanced maternal age, obesity, Asian race, and private insurance were all correlated to COVID-19 vaccine uptake.
A total of 7% of residents with HIV were reinfected with SARS-CoV-2, compared with 5% of those without HIV.
The bats were tested as part of the response to a Nipah virus outbreak in Kozhikode district, where spillovers have been reported before.
Comparing symptoms at 1-month and 3-month follow-up, one study observed a declining trend of long COVID, from 82.1% to 66.7%.
The countries had procured about 916,120 Paxlovid courses, compared with a minimum need for 9,135,953 courses.
The authors said the findings support vaccinating this age-group, despite low incidence of severe disease or hospitalization.
The analysis comes during a year in which RSV has been the target of new vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapies.
A total of 28 experts are on the commission, from fields ranging from epidemiology, veterinary medicine, and food systems management.
Hospital workflow delays resulted in slower stroke diagnosis and treatment during waves 1 and 2 and the lull, likely due to hospital SARS-CoV-2 infection-prevention mandates.
In temperate South America and the Caribbean, activity was low.
Florida's dengue cases have been concentrated in Miami-Dade County (47 cases) and Broward County (3), with single cases reported in Palm Beach, Hardee, and Polk counties.
Previously vaccinated children in a county with the greatest COVID-19 severity had a lower predicted probability of receiving a flu vaccine than those in a county with the lowest severity.
Seventy percent of those who did not use telehealth said they did so based on personal preference.
The latest Gates Foundation funds support mRNA vaccine production in Africa and other lower-income regions.
Relative to controls, COVID-19 patients had significantly higher risks of conditions such as alopecia areata, alopecia totalis, Crohn disease, and sarcoidosis.
The findings were based on patients seen in King County, Washington.
MD Anderson Cancer Center saw declines in the incidence rate of several healthcare-associated infections during the first 2 years of the pandemic.