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The test joins other over-the-counter COVID-19/flu tests already available under emergency use authorization.

When compared to COVID test-negative participants, test-positive participants had a significant 3% increase in scores for fatigue.

Though KP.3.1.1 variant levels continue to rise, the proportion of XEC viruses is also trending upward.

CDC researchers found that adults 65 and older continue to hospitalized for COVID at much higher rates than other age groups, yet antivirals remain underused…

At 5 Massachusetts hospitals, prolonged antibiotic use was common during the first 33 months of the pandemic, despite low rates of proven bacterial infection.

Ensuring the availability of linguistically appropriate information about vaccine recommendations and safety may help address the disparities, the authors say.

But a subsequent dose-finding study found that higher doses of the drug were tied to numerically greater symptom relief. 

There was a 17% higher risk of extrasystoles, or extra heart beats, after dose one.

Results suggest that 54 million US COVID-19 infections were missed in official records after home tests were widely deployed and institutional testing waned.

In one study, over half of long-COVID patients also were diagnosed as having myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.