Emerging Diseases News

Data show that the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting reorganization of health systems led to a significant reduction in vascular procedures in 2020 and 2021 across Brazil, leading to a $17 million reduction in spending on vascular surgeries.

Having COVID-19 was associated with a small change in menstrual cycle length like that observed with COVID-19 vaccination, with changes resolving within the next cycle, researchers reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases are as likely as the general population to contract COVID-19, but are at a higher risk for severe outcomes, including hospitalization and death, according to data.

In 2022, more than one in 20 adults in the United States reported ever having long COVID, with women more likely than men to report lingering COVID-19 symptoms months after infection, a CDC survey found.

As of last year, around one in 100 children in the United States had ever had long COVID, according to survey findings reported by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Paxlovid was associated with a significant reduction in 30-day hospitalization or death among previously uninfected patients with COVID-19 who were not hospitalized, researchers found.

HHS, through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, has awarded $45 million in grants to support multidisciplinary long COVID clinics and expand coordinated and comprehensive care.

The CDC has awarded $262.5 million in funding to develop and implement new tools to detect, respond to and mitigate future public health emergencies such as outbreaks and pandemics.

Adults hospitalized with COVID-19 were less likely to experience critical outcomes such as ICU admission, respiratory failure or death during later periods of the pandemic, researchers found.

Free at-home COVID-19 tests will be available for mail order again in the United States beginning on Monday, Sept. 25.