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The authors found no statistically significant difference in risk of VTE among cases and controls in the 6 months following a COVID-19 diagnosis.
While antibiotic use has declined over the pandemic, nearly two-thirds of non-critically ill, hospitalized COVID-19 patients received antibiotics in 2022, most of them on admission.
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.
Test positivity last week was 10.9%, down 1.2% from the previous week, and hospitalizations were down 6%.
MD Anderson Cancer Center saw declines in the incidence rate of several healthcare-associated infections during the first 2 years of the pandemic.
A lower percentage of Black and multiracial nursing home residents and those in the South and Southeast were up to date on COVID vaccinations.
In June 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended RSV vaccination for adults aged 60 years and…
Over a 4-month period, protection with the Novavax vaccine was stable against symptomatic COVID infection.