After the emergence of the Omicron variant, the rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States was 10.5 times higher in unvaccinated adults and 2.5 times higher in those who were vaccinated but received no booster than in booster recipients

Vitamin D doesn't prevent COVID-19, other respiratory infections, studies find

In one of the largest follow-up studies to date, involving 25 pediatric hospitals, more than a quarter of children and adolescents hospitalized with coronavirus infection early in the pandemic still had health problems two to four months later

Constrained by a lack of sufficient resources and faced with difficult decisions amid COVID-19 surges in the first year of the pandemic, nearly 72% of US primary care, dental, and behavioral health clinicians working in safety-net clinics report experiencing mild to intense moral distress

Study shows virus causing monkeypox outbreak has mutated to spread easier

New research shows after controlling for demographic characteristics and social determinants likely to affect COVID-19 transmission and outcomes, the team found a positive relationship between county Republican vote share and COVID-19 death rates.

Study spotlights Omicron's impact on unvaccinated, rural Americans: Though it causes less severe disease than Delta variant, highly transmissible Omicron has been twice as deadly in unvaccinated people and has therefore hit rural Americans harder than those living in cities

Life expectancy in the United States declined 1.87 years from 2019 to after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, more than any of 21 other high-income countries—with greater losses in Hispanic and Black populations

COVID vaccine markedly cuts household transmission, studies show

CDC confirms Omicron less severe than other variants

Lack of high school education predicts vaccine hesitancy

Severe COVID tied to high risk of death, mostly by other causes, within year

Emotional toll of COVID-19 on health workers is vast, varied

Brain fog can persist 8 months after COVID diagnosis

More than 68,000 COVID-19 cases and 16,000 related deaths in US nursing homes may have gone uncounted because they occurred before federal guidelines required facilities to report case and death data in late May 2020

Covid vaccines highly effective in preventing hospitalisations, emergency visits

Ivermectin doesn't speed recovery from mild COVID-19, study shows

University of Washington at Seattle researchers estimate that 60% of US COVID-19 cases have gone unreported due to biases in test data and delayed reporting, according to study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

20 states reach 70% COVID-19 vaccination goal

The B cells have been waiting for at least 60 years—if not 90 years —for that flu to come around again," he said

Ghosts in the machine: Malicious bots spread COVID untruths

Infants who were exposed to the flu vaccine in utero—meaning their mothers received the vaccine while pregnant—did not have an increased likelihood of adverse outcomes

Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84%

AstraZeneca COVID vaccine 70% effective vs B117 variant

AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial

The B117 COVID-19 variant, which was first identified in the United Kingdom in October 2020, may pose a 61% higher risk of 28-day mortality

Kids with COVID-19, flu equally prone to severe illness: A single-center study of 315 pediatric COVID-19 patients and 1,402 children with seasonal flu identified no difference in rates of hospitalization…

Data do not back cloth masks to limit Covid-19, experts say

Macrolide use in pregnancy tied to higher risk of birth defects. The antibiotics were tied to a 55% increased risk of malformation.

California laws tied to higher kindergarten vaccine rates

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