Researchers say the campaign encouraged 22 million Americans to complete their primary COVID-19 vaccine series, preventing nearly 2.6 million infections.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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24% of jurisdictions did not know whom to contact to access the SNS in the first months of the pandemic.
The mean SARS-CoV-2 viral load was reduced 3.6-fold with metformin.
The sensitivity of RATs was 47%, compared with RT-PCR and 80% versus viral culture.
The treatment effect was strongest in healthcare workers 30 years and younger.
Willingness to get a booster dose of vaccine dropped most notably in high-income countries.
People who received the COVID-19 booster vaccine had 25% lower odds of having long COVID than their unvaccinated counterparts.
After the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines at the end of 2020, there were on average 10,201 more vaccine-related tweets per month.
The authors say Community Notes are a good way to nurture a learning environment rather than rely on censoring.
The FDA's vaccine advisory group will discuss the make-up of 2024-25 vaccines at its meeting on May 16.
Of those who had declined the vaccine, 22% said they were interested in receiving a dose in the emergency department.