Tag: CORO
Parental Intent to Vaccinate Under 5s Against COVID-19 Examined
Odds of intending to vaccinate their children was lower for parents three months after a baseline survey versus baseline
FDA Approves Omicron-Specific Booster Shots From Pfizer, Moderna
Vaccine advisory panel for the CDC set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss who should get the updated boosters
SARS-CoV-2 Infections Frequently Asymptomatic in Children
Infections most often asymptomatic for children aged 0 to 4 years; for adults, but not children, number of symptoms linked to viral load
SARS-CoV-2 mAbs Continued to Be Used After FDA Deauthorization
More than 158,000 doses of bamlanivimab-etesevimab and casirivimab-imdevimab were used after deauthorization on Jan. 24, 2022
Duration of Infectiousness Examined in COVID-19 Cases
65 and 24 percent of 34 cases continued to shed infectious virus at five and seven days after symptom onset
School-Aged Children Can Self-Swab for COVID-19 Testing
Close agreement seen between self-collected nasal swabs and swabs collected by health care workers for SARS-CoV-2 testing results
Wide Variance Seen in Booster Uptake Among Vaccinated U.S. Adults
Disparities seen by geographic, sociodemographic, and occupational subgroups
Hospitalization Rates Up During Omicron BA.2 Predominance
Hospitalization rates 3.4 times as high for unvaccinated adults compared with vaccinated adults
Biden Administration Will Stop Sending Out Free COVID-19 Tests on Friday
Move comes as the stockpile of test kits is shrinking and fewer Americans are testing for COVID-19
Up to 4 Million Americans Out of Work With Long COVID
Numbers could translate into at least $170 billion in lost wages a year, a new report suggests
