Paxlovid has eclipsed other available therapies for preventing life-threatening covid symptoms in high-risk patients. But even as doctors praise its effectiveness, many say they have unanswered questions about prescribing the drug and want more and better data about it.
Ramping up COVID-19 booster administration this fall could save up to 160,000 lives and prevent more than 1 million hospitalizations, according to a July 26 analysis from the Commonwealth Fund.
More than two years into the pandemic, researchers are still struggling to answer a crucial question about the virus: How long is someone with COVID-19 infectious? Though the question seems simple, the answer is anything but, scientists and infec…
The U.S. may need nearly $7 billion to adequately address the monkeypox outbreak, Biden administration officials told Congress this month, The Washington Post reported July 26.
Although the disease is currently spreading almost exclusively among men who have sex with men, some cases are turning up in other populations — and that number is likely to grow if public health officials don’t effectively nip the outbreak in the bud.
The world has experienced a slew of surges caused by an alphabet of variants since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Thankfully, none of the variants has led to a significant increase in disease severity.
The White House is planning to name a coordinator to oversee the nation’s response to monkeypox and is considering people with expertise in epidemic response and government operations, The Washington Post reported July 25.
The highly transmissible omicron subvariant BA.5 continues to gain dominance in the U.S., now accounting for nearly 82 percent of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S., according to the CDC’s latest variant proportion estimates.
The overall severity of the 2021-22 flu season was low, though elevated flu activity lasted longer than usual, according to the CDC’s summary report of this year’s flu season published July 22.
As the highly transmissible omicron subvariant BA.5 rapidly spreads, national disease forecasting models show an uncertain trend for COVID-19 admissions over the next month.
