According to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in June 2022, while more than 40 percent of adults in the U. S. reported having COVID-19 in the past, 19 percent are currently still having "long COVID," the long-term physical fallout of coronavirus...
As a result, vaccine-preventable diseases might be easily transmitted within those communities, the CDC noted. “Local data are essential to controlling the spread of vaccine-preventable disease,” the CDC noted. “Accurate and reliable school vaccination assessments can provide a unique opportunity...
The whole world is now facing the battle against the severe and dangerous pandemic COVID-19, which is not only physically harming, but also mentally disturbing because of the unceasingly escalating number of affected patients and deaths globally. In India, the containment strategies constitute in id...
Ed Cohen, PharmD, FAPhA: As we look into the different types of COVID-19 vaccines, can you briefly discuss the differences and how the vaccines available might impact decisions to get a COVID-19 vaccine? Wesley Nuffer, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES: Absolutely. Mary, you make some excellent poi...
CDC officials state that this change in guidance is for two reasons. First, evidence shows that people who are infected with COVID-19 are most infectious during the first two days before and three days after they develop symptoms. Second, the recent surge in omicron cases is resulting in suc...
In particular, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States identify patients with certain medical conditions as being at particularly high risk of developing severe COVID-19 illness; among these are patients with cancer (CDC, 2020). Patients with cancer have been ...
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The following articles appeared in the print edition ofInfectious Disease News. Table of Contents
The following articles appeared in the print edition ofInfectious Disease News. Table of Contents
Remdesivir GS-5734 Coronavirus COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Compassionate use 1. Introduction The first human coronaviruses (HCoVs) were identified in the 1960s [1], and for the majority of the past six decades, HCoVs have generally maintained a relatively innocuous reputation as a cause of the comm...