Posts published in “COVID-19”

A total of 282,000 renters received an eviction notice in 2020 and 2021, during which time their observed death rate was 106% higher than expected.

Just over 40% of mothers said their young babies had received Beyfortus, the new RSV antibody vaccine.

Vaccine halved risk of medically attended COVID, reduced H1N1 flu risk by 60%.

Influenza B proportions are rising in regions where flu activity is trending upward.

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.

Average weekly outgoing transfers per hospital stayed lower than the prepandemic average of 12 transfers per week for most of the pandemic.

57% of those with post–COVID-19 condition—or long COVID—said they experienced symptoms of a cognitive (thinking) deficit daily.

Unlike reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, rapid antigen tests are still subject to misinterpretation by both patients and clinicians.