Posts published in “COVID-19”

Early oral antiviral drug administration was associated with a 23% reduction in long COVID overall.

Unflagged vaccine-skeptical content cut vaccination intent by 2.28 percentage points per user, versus −0.05 percentage points for flagged content.

Wastewater detections are up in the western region, which is also seeing a small rise in test positivity.

Chicago, after recording 64 measles cases and administering more than 30,000 vaccine doses, has passed 2 incubation periods with no new infections.

On average, COVID-19 was tied to 2 more days of sick time than influenza.

Protection against infection 4 weeks after vaccination was 52%, and against COVID-related hospital illness it was 67%.

“A brief, seemingly innocuous or benign encounter with the virus can still lead to health problems years later,” one study author says.

The findings come as CDC advisers prepare to meet next week about the composition of upcoming COVID vaccines.

In healthy children with no comorbidities, the absolute risk of critical disease from COVID-19 was 4%.

Breast cancer screening tanked and then rebounded in the first pandemic months, while cancer treatment disruptions varied by race, age, and wave.