Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. adults and older teens had still not caughtCOVID-19by the end of last year, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while 77.5% had antibodies from at least one prior infection. Thefiguresare based on the final batch of results...
went on to have lingering symptoms for months or longer from a condition known as long covid-19. just how many people have had long covid or are still experiencing it? estimates vary, but the numbers might be a surprise to many. and the high estimates could signal l...
Between mid-December 2020, when the first COVID-19 shots were rolled out, and April 23, 2021, at which point between 95 million and 100 million Americans had received their COVID-19 shots, there were 3,544 reported deaths following COVID vaccination.2 That’s 182 more deaths than cited ...
But one demographic group shines, reports Joanne Silberner Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that Native American groups—American Indians and Alaska Natives—have consistently had the best vaccination records since covid-19 vaccination in the US began in early...
The lived reality of COVID-19 is that it has become a new cause of premature death. To get a sense of how many Americans have died so far from COVID-19, you would need to add up all the American deaths in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, as...
Long COVID is similar to COVID-19 Many long-haulers experience the same symptoms they had during theirinitial fight with COVID-19, such as fatigue, cognitive impairment (or brain fog), difficulty breathing, headaches, difficulty exercising, depression, sleep difficulty and loss of the sense of...
COVID-related hospitalizations that occurred during 2021 placed an enormous strain on hospitals, with many staff lost not only to the virus but also to exhaustion and burnout. Faced with such unprecedented demand, U.S. hospitals operating under crisis standards of care would likely have had no ...
The effects had been seen in children both with and without Covid-19, but there was evidence that some patients had had coronavirus previously. Professor Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), said parents should be reassured that children are unli...
Enough time has passed since the 2020 presidential election that we can now ask: What effect did COVID-19, arguably the biggest event of the year — of the century, even — have on the election outcome? The answer to this question probably seems straightforward considering how abysmally Ameri...
When did 1 millIon COVID-19 deaths become accepted and normalized? When this should be a moment of reckoning for the U.S., why have so many people moved on?