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The team analyzed 486,149 adult electronic health records from patients with confirmed COVID in the United Kingdom. …

A poll from the University of Michigan found more than half of seniors are waiting for the next round of COVID-19 booster shots, many on the recommendation of a healthcare provider. …

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 7-13 August 2022 and includes updates on West Nile virus infection, COVID-19, monkeypox, measles, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Langya henipavirus, dengue, mass gatherings at the Birmingham 2022 commonwealth games, Vibrio growth, swine influenza and polio.

Monkeypox was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 23 July 2022. Between 1 January and 23 July 2022, 16,016 laboratory confirmed cases of monkeypox and five deaths were reported to WHO from 75 countries on all continents. Public health authorities are proactively identifying cases and tracing their contacts to contain its spread. As with COVID-19, PCR is the only method capable of being deployed at sufficient speed to provide timely feedback on any public health interventions. However, at this point, there is little information on how those PCR assays are being standardised between laboratories. A likely reason is that testing is still limited on a global scale and that detection, not quantification, of monkeypox virus DNA is the main clinical requirement. Yet we should not be complacent about PCR performance. As testing requirements increase rapidly and specimens become more diverse, it would be prudent to ensure PCR accuracy from the outset to support harmonisation and ease regulatory conformance. Lessons from COVID-19 should aid implementation with appropriate material, documentary and methodological standards offering dynamic mechanisms to ensure testing that most accurately guides public health decisions.…

This analysis is one of the first to compare adverse events in pregnant and nonpregnant and vaccinated and unvaccinated women. …

CDC recommendations on social distancing, quarantining, and testing children for COVID-19 while allowing them to stay in school may no longer be necessary for most Americans. …

The new guidance from the FDA is based on findings from a new study by University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School researchers showed the new timelines are more likely to detect an infection. …

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People with long COVID have increased antibody responses to other non-COVID viruses, like Epstein-Barr Virus, researchers found. …

This report describes voluntary reporting of COVID-19 self-testing data.

This report describes school and lab-based reporting of positive COVID-19 test results among school-aged children in New York.

This report describes voluntary reporting of COVID-19 self-testing data.

Neurofilament light (NfL) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) alone and together can help predict a neurological complication from COVID, new research suggests. …

The German health minister and various politicians say that ending quarantine and isolation requirements would result in the further spread of COVID-19. …

Antallet af danskere der testes positiv for covid-19 falder. Men færre bliver også PCR-testet. Det viser ugens tendensrapport for covid-19 og andre luftvejsinfektioner fra Statens Serum Institut.

Experts are worried about a second wave of illnesses from long COVID, a condition that already has affected between 7.7 million and 23 million Americans. …

Biden coughed several times during a speech on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday, which made him stop a few times and turn his head or sip water. …

The study was done on men and women in Utah who were, on average, in their 60s and got COVID before vaccines were available. …

While the study evaluated cases in one state, the results offer preliminary insights on the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on scabies and lice, the authors point out. …

The proportion of ED visits with diagnosed COVID rose steadily throughout June and July. …

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Wastewater testing has proved a reliable early alarm bell for covid outbreaks. US researchers are now adapting the approach to track the explosive spread of monkeypox. …

Kulick also is now vaccinated and boosted. Had a vaccine been available sooner, could it have protected her from long COVID? …

During departure from the White House on Marine One on Sunday, he told reporters he was 'feeling good,' saying, 'After 18 days, I'm clear!' …

Ontario government made getting the COVID-19 vaccine to indigenous people a priority, but uptake remained lower than in the general population, a new study has found. …

The mild, mainly A(H3N2)-driven 2021-2022 influenza season may have been slowed by COVID-19 precautions, CDC reports. …

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People whose brains were injured by concussions, traumatic accidents, strokes, etc, can benefit from targeted therapy. Experts employ therapies for long-COVID patients with memory and language problems. …

Speakers at a recent scientific ME/CFS conference reported new data linking the three conditions. New ICD-10 codes will help clinicians document them. …

The investigators said their findings stress the importance of COVID-19 vaccination in Americans under the age of 18. …

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Before coronavirus vaccines were even released, a disinformation campaign used a moment of national and personal vulnerability to prey on those who were pregnant or who planned to become pregnant. …

Most are already commercially available for other indications. …

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 31 July-6 August and includes updates on West Nile virus infection, monkeypox, COVID-19, cholera, diphteria, anthrax, Vibrio growth, Marburg virus disease, mass gatherings at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth games, MERS-CoV, and Poliovirus.

About 1 in 4 patients with non–small cell lung cancer have an unsatisfactory antibody response to the Omicron variant following COVID-19 vaccination, reports a new study. …

Functional immunity (defined here as serum neutralising capacity) critically contributes to conferring protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19. This cross-sectional analysis of a prospective, population-based cohort study included 1,894 randomly-selected 16 to 99-year-old participants from two Swiss cantons in March 2022. Of these, 97.6% (95% CI: 96.8–98.2%) had anti-spike IgG antibodies, and neutralising capacity was respectively observed for 94%, 92% and 88% against wild-type SARS-CoV-2, Delta and Omicron variants. Studying functional immunity to inform and monitor vaccination campaigns is crucial.…

Breathing difficulties, chest pain, tiredness, loss of taste and/or smell among the symptoms most likely to hang on. …

New COVID-19 vaccine boosters, targeting new Omicron strains of the virus, are expected to roll out across the US in September. …

Moderna shares surged Wednesday after the company also announced another $3 billion share buyback plan. …

Both inactivated and mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations are safe as to the risk of acute liver injury, and the risk of liver damage is reduced compared with SARS-CoV-2 infection, a new study shows. …

This report describes pediatric intracranial infections during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report describes the potential of post-COVID symptoms and conditions among children and adolescents.

This report describes interim recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for use of the Novavax vaccine in persons aged ≥18 years.

Many parents are hesitant to have their youngest children vaccinated against COVID-19, but some healthcare systems have had success using targeted strategies. …

Antallet af nye tilfælde med covid-19 er faldet yderligere mellem uge 29 og uge 30 svarende til et fald på 19%. Incidensen er i uge 30 på 183 tilfælde per 100.000 indbyggere på nationalt niveau, og der ses både et fald i testaktiviteten og i positivprocenter i uge 30.

Efter nedlukningen af det danske samfund i marts 2020 for at undgå spredningen af covid-19, blev der efterfølgende observeret et fald i forekomsten af en række infektionssygdomme. Det viser et nyt studium fra Statens Serum Institut.

“It felt like someone pulled the carpet out from under me,” he remembers. “I couldn’t walk three blocks without getting breathless and fatigued.” …

Symptoms can return after the person’s condition improves, and the symptoms can be better or worse than the original bout of illness. …

Travel restrictions reduced by tenfold the number of new cases in the first 2 waves, but new variants took over. Information is critical for understanding the impact of travel restrictions. …

"This case makes us consider the use of overwhelming power by the State against the individual liberties of its citizens and how that use of power may be challenged," the judges wrote. …