In 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 was the top cause of death for the region of the Americas.
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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The decline in care quality may have been due to staff shortages, a lack of personal protective equipment, and visitor policies that limited family support, the authors say.
Of the vaccinated patients, 96.7% had two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
About 55,500 patients were flagged for long COVID, compared with 2.1 million who self-reported the condition in a community infection survey.
SARS-CoV-2 infection is tied to increased preterm birth, high blood pressure during pregnancy, and severe maternal morbidity.
The UK maintained a relatively stable proportion between questionable and reliable retweets, while Germany had the highest rates of misinformation.
Compared to last year, cholera cases are down 32%, but deaths are up 14%.
The overall case-hospitalization rate among patients was 5.7%.
The results should be interpreted in the context of twice as many hospitalizations for COVID than flu during the study period, the authors say.
The FDA sent the company a warning letter after an inspection revealed that Cue Health had made changes to the tests that reduced their reliability.
Collectively, the interventions may have averted 400,000 patient infections and 410,000 staff cases.