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Experts hope for a better summer and envision an endemic status ahead where health systems will include COVID-19 as part of the yearly respiratory burden. …

In the scramble to tackle the virus in real time, entrenched scientific and medical processes were challenged, sometimes leading to mixed results. …

Based in lack of trust that is often fanned by politicians, the media, and others, misinformation has not only caused arguments but arguably has also cost many lives. …

Over the past 2 years, Americans have made many changes to how they live, work, play, worship ― and manage their health. Many experts think some of these changes are here to stay. …

'Benefit finding' is a skill among some of the more resilient people whose lives have been upended by COVID-19, and experts explain how it can help others. …

Better treatment for Candida auris, Aspergillus and other dangerous fungal pathogens is slow to come, even as rates of drug resistance rise. New therapies are in the pipeline, and hospital practices can help. …

Most children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19 infection show recovery of cardiac function by 3 months. …

'We respect the court’s ruling and will comply,' Starbucks Chief Operating Officer John Culver wrote in a company memo. Starbucks employs 228,000 people in the US. …

"Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends." …

The news offers hope for other countries that their Omicron surges may soon be over. That said, hospitalizations and deaths didn't increase as much in South Africa as they have elsewhere. …

WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Adelaide Robb, MD, Division Chief, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's National Hospital, about addressing the growing mental health crisis among children and adolescents. …

Over the 3-week stretch from December 17 to January 13, weekly cases increased by 394%. …

The plan is a response to growing pressure from public health experts to encourage Americans to stop using cloth masks that don’t work as well against the Omicron variant. …

A PLOS journal has issued an expression of concern for a 2018 paper which claimed that ivermectin could be useful as a way to control dengue fever. …

Given the similarities between symptoms of influenza and COVID-19, distinguishing between the two diseases when both are spreading in the community is challenging. …

Telling insurance companies to pay for rapid COVID-19 tests is just the latest COVID-related cost the federal government expects them to bear. But who really ends up paying for it? …

A health official has been put on administrative leave as state officials investigate whether he tried to compel employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in violation of state law. …

Youngkin's order said parents of any child in elementary or secondary schools or a school-based early childcare or educational program "may elect for their children not to be subject to any mask mandate." …

Some schools have gone virtual to begin the semester. Critics of virtual learning have charged that universities have ignored science and are enforcing COVID-19 policies that are unfair to students. …

A new study shows that the performance of COVID tests in children falls below standards for diagnostic accuracy set by regulatory agencies in the US and elsewhere. …

The problems were more likely if the infection occurred 28 days or less before the delivery date, the researchers said. …

It's much too early to say if the Omicron variant signals the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony Fauci, MD, said. …

A study reinforces a link between appendicoliths and appendectomies after antibiotics, but its author said there's a surprising lack of connection for other factors that tilt patients toward surgery. …

Der er indtil videre beskrevet 3 subvarianter af omikron: BA.1, BA.2 og BA.3. På verdensplan udgør BA.1 langt de fleste tilfælde. I Danmark vinder BA.2 dog frem på bekostning af BA.1.

Data fra covid-19-indlagte viser at en stigende andel af indlæggelserne sker blandt patienter med med omikron. I uge 1 var ca. 86% af alle nyindlagte smittet med omikron, hvorimod andelen med omikron blandt nyindlagte på intensiv kun var ca. 43%.

Treatment of uncomplicated pediatric community-acquired pneumonia with a short, 5-day course of antibiotics results in a superior clinical response compared to the standard 10-day course. …

Use of medications to manage cardiovascular disease risk factors significantly decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK and has not returned to prepandemic levels, a new study shows. …

A fourth shot of the COVID-19 vaccine boosts antibodies but doesn't provide enough protection to prevent infections from the Omicron variant, according to new research at an Israeli hospital. …

The administration said 500 million tests are available to be delivered to homes across the country. …

The pandemic threw curveballs that she should have expected, she said, and she should have made it clearer to the public that new guidelines could change quickly as the pandemic shifts. …

Gilead Sciences said on Tuesday that tampered and counterfeit versions of its HIV treatments worth $250 million were sold to pharmacies over 2 years by a network of drug distributors and suppliers. …

The finding could eventually help the 1.6 million people in the US who still can't smell or have had a change in their ability to smell more than 6 months after getting the coronavirus. …

Donald Trump falsely declared in a weekend rally that public health authorities are denying the COVID-19 vaccine to White people because of their race. …

Nursing homes were the lethal epicenter of the pandemic early on, before the vaccine allowed many of them to reopen to visitors last year. But the wildly contagious variant has dealt them a setback. …

The CDC update doesn't come out and say Americans should avoid cloth masks but clarifies that some kinds of masks work better than others. …

"This week's national ensemble predicts that the number of newly reported COVID-19 deaths will likely increase over the next four weeks." …

The tests will ship within 7 to 12 days after being ordered, senior officials from President Joe Biden’s administration said Friday. …

Officials in some states are sounding the alarm about dubious street testing operators that could put people’s personal data, their health, or wallets at risk. …

This report describes racial and ethnic disparities in receiving medications for COVID-19 treatment.

Most prescriptions are being written for COVID-19, although there's no evidence that it's effective against the virus. …

Fed up with personal attacks directed at the nation's top infectious disease expert, leading scientists and physicians sign an open letter of support and gratitude for Fauci's 'sagacious counsel.' …

The journey of the nasal swab -- from the collection point to the test results arriving by text or email -- is more involved and complicated than most people realize. …

Nearly all teenagers admitted to intensive care units because of COVID-19 were unvaccinated, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. …

WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Director, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University, about the ethical issues around criticizing and triaging the unvaccinated in hospitals. …

Just 18% of 5- to 11-year-olds are vaccinated, with rates varying sharply across the US, a KHN analysis of federal data shows. Pediatricians say the slow pace and geographic disparities are alarming. …

Nyt studie af deltasmitte i danske husstande viser, at vacciner både beskytter mod at blive smittet, men også mod at smitte videre til andre.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 9-15 January 2022 and includes updates on COVID-19, the Omicron variant, avian influenza, seasonal influenza and measles.

From 20 December 2021 to 2 January 2022, there were 21 EU/EEA countries with adequate sequencing volume that reported an estimated prevalence of Omicron VOC of 46%.

Doctors are clamoring for the pills now, not just because omicron is causing an explosion of cases but because two antibody drugs that were once the go-to treatments don't work as well against the variant. …

The president announced three strategies to protect Americans during the Omicron surge. …