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Getting COVID Shot During Pregnancy Helps Protect Newborns, CDC Study Finds
FRIDAY, Sept. 29, 2023 – When pregnant women get a COVID vaccine, it helps protect their newborns from the virus, a new government study shows. "These findings indicate that maternal vaccination d...
COVID Triggered More Cases of Deadly Sepsis During Pandemic Than Thought
FRIDAY, Sept. 29, 2023 – The life-threatening infection sepsis was more common than once thought among COVID-19 patients early in the pandemic. Massachusetts researchers linked SARS-CoV-2, the virus...
Differences Seen in Immune, Hormone Function for Those With Long COVID
FRIDAY, Sept. 29, 2023 – Individuals with post-acute infection syndrome after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection (long COVID [LC]) have differences in immune and...
Less than One Quarter 'Definitely' Plan to Get New COVID-19 Vaccine
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 27, 2023 – Just 23 percent of American adults say they "definitely" will get the new COVID-19 vaccine, while another 23 percent say they will "probably" get it, according to a new...
Just 23% of U.S. Adults 'Definitely' Plan to Get New COVID Shot
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 27, 2023 – Just 23% of American adults say they 'definitely' will get the new COVID-19 vaccine, while another 23% say they will 'probably' get it, according to a new poll, which...
Pandemic-Linked Drop in Cardiac Testing Recovered in United States
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 27, 2023 – In the United States and non-U.S. high-income countries, the reductions in cardiac testing seen in the early COVID-19 pandemic recovered by 2021, according to a study...
1.3 Percent of Children, 6.9 Percent of Adults Have Ever Had Long COVID
TUESDAY, Sept. 26, 2023 – In 2022, 1.3 percent of children and 6.9 percent of adults had ever had long COVID, according to two September data briefs published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
About 1 in 14 U.S. Adults Have Had Long COVID
TUESDAY, Sept. 26, 2023 – One in every 14 American adults has suffered from long COVID, a new federal survey has found. About 7% of adults have ever had long COVID and more than 3% still have it,...
Blood Tests for Long COVID Could Lead to Better Treatments
TUESDAY, Sept. 26, 2023 – People who develop long COVID have distinct abnormalities in their immune and hormonal function that can be picked up with blood tests, researchers have found. In a new...
Increase in Types 1 and 2 Diabetes Seen in U.S. Youth During Pandemic
TUESDAY, Sept. 26, 2023 – The incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes increased among U.S. youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Sept. 21 in JAMA Network Open....
Nirmatrelvir, Molnupiravir Use Lowers Risks for Omicron-Infected
MONDAY, Sept. 25, 2023 – For patients infected with omicron at high risk for progression to severe disease, treatment with nirmatrelvir or molnupiravir is associated with reductions in mortality and...
President Biden Gets COVID, Flu Shots
MONDAY, Sept. 25, 2023 – President Joe Biden has been freshly vaccinated for three major respiratory viruses that could spread widely this fall and winter. Biden got both the updated COVID booster a...
Critical Outcomes in COVID-19 Hospitalizations Decreased Over Time
FRIDAY, Sept. 22, 2023 – From 2021 to 2023, there was a decrease in the proportion of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 who experienced critical outcomes, according to a study published online Aug....
Many Americans Frustrated in Search for Low-Cost COVID Boosters
FRIDAY, Sept. 22, 2023 – Americans seeking out the new COVID boosters are finding themselves held back by insurance entanglements and supply delays. Some insurers have balked at covering the...
Free COVID-19 Test Program to Resume
THURSDAY, Sept. 21, 2023 – Americans will once again be able to get free at-home COVID-19 tests. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Wednesday that it will spend $600...
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