In a paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Tuesday, experts recommended that inpatient personnel indefinitely use masks to mitigate disease and the seasonal spread of respiratory viruses,...
An article published in SLEEP on May 11, 2023, reported a link between obstructive sleep apnea and an increased risk of long COVID. Using data from NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery...
On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, the HHS issued an advisory regarding social connection, loneliness, and isolation. The advisory included data and statements from the United States Surgeon General, Vivek H....
As the COVID pandemic has progressed, the CDC has added yet another COVID-19 subvariant to the seemingly never-ending variants of concern. The new variant XBB.1.16, also known as Arcturus, is an...
According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, pediatric ingestion rates of illicit substances increased by 25.6% with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional insights determined that the...
On April 18, 2023, a study published in JAMA Network Open analyzing the link between COVID-19 and incident diabetes found that the condition may be linked to increased disease burden. Based on the...
In an astounding 419 to 0 vote on Friday, March 10, 2023, the United States House of Representatives unanimously favored declassifying information on the origins of COVID-19. While the two sides of the...
On March 6, 2023, Andrea Levy, PhD, MBE, and her colleagues published a research letter in JAMA Network Open on parental nonadherence to COVID guidelines. The study’s results alarmed researchers...
On February 24, 2023, the FDA issued a press release announcing an emergency use authorization (EUA) for at-home tests that detect influenza and COVID-19. This EUA allows over-the-counter sales of the...
Long COVID, an ill-defined syndrome expressed with various symptoms and degrees of severity, is now also proven deadly. According to a recent report published by the CDC, researchers found that 3,544...
The COVID-19 pandemic was a significant turning point in public health in the United States. When the pandemic began, providers and healthcare facilities were hit hard with waves of illness. On top of...
The CDC FluView is the weekly reporting system for the United States influenza surveillance report. The most recent report was published on November 28, 2022, with updates for week 46, ending November...
A team of German radiologists conducted a small study of adolescents with previous COVID-19 infections and found ventilated and perfused lung parenchyma reductions compared to a healthy control...
A Quest Diagnostics Health Trends study analyzed the rates of breast and prostate cancer diagnosis to find that the rates still lag behind pre-pandemic diagnoses. The American Society of Clinical...
Incubation periods are one of the most significant epidemiological parameters when studying infectious diseases. Understanding incubation periods can impact the recommended public health strategies to...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its knock-on effects have contributed to a 2.7-year decline in life expectancy from 2019 to 2021, and some demographics’ life expectancies have fallen even lower,...
As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to progress, studying the long-term effects of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been an important area of study. On August 17, 2022, Lancet Psychiatry...
A retrospective cohort study published on August 16, 2022, found that patients hospitalized for COVID-19 had an elevated risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) compared to those hospitalized for...
Because environmental changes — like rising temperatures — are known to expand habitats that are survivable for numerous pathogens, human pathogenic diseases are heavily impacted by the...
Science recently published two studies looking at the epidemiology of the COVID-19 virus. Understanding where the virus began and spread may help inform public health practices to mitigate the spread...
