#hospitalizations

#hospitalizations

Whether you get it from a vaccine or an infection, COVID-19 immunity does not last forever.In a study published May 3 in JAMA Network Open, researchers combed through studies to determine just how long protection from the shots endures.The scientists, led by a team from Italy, analyzed 40 studies that documented people's vaccination status and their subsequent infections with COVID-19, confirmed by lab tests.

As the Biden administration prepares for the federal COVID-19 public health emergency to end on May 11, the new normal is markedly better than the earlier phase of the pandemic in which we lost more than a million American lives.We've gone from the 2021 peak of an estimated 3,000 Americans dying daily from the infection to about 250 a day now.

The number of COVID deaths continues to fall in California and the rest of the country, dropping 65% in the last three months in the Golden State, another sign that the virus is losing its grip on our lives.In March, California added just 540 names to its COVID death total, and numbers for April could be even lower.

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved GSK's vaccine for the respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., for adults who are 60 and older, the company said.The vaccine, to be sold as Arexvy, appears to be the first in the world approved for sale to protect older adults.Image An transmission electron microscopic image of R.S.V.Credit...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The F.D.A. estimates that R.S.V. is associated with 6,000 to 10,000 deaths each year in adults 65 and older and at least 60,000 hospitalizations in that age group.

As the nation's public health emergency expires on May 11, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop reporting its color-coded Covid-19 Community Levels as a way to track the spread of the infection.Instead, the CDC will keep tabs on Covid-19 largely by tracking hospitalizations and monitoring wastewater in some areas, according to a source familiar with the agency's plans.

It's no secret that kids in the U.S. are struggling with mental health issues in increasing numbers.Now, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association emphasizes the severity of the situation: Pediatric mental health hospitalizations are rising, and many more kids are being hospitalized for attempting suicide.

Babies born to opioid users had shorter hospital stays and needed less medication when their care emphasized parent involvement, skin-to-skin contact and a quiet environment, researchers reported Sunday.Newborns were ready to go home about a week earlier compared to those getting standard care.Fewer received opioid medications to reduce withdrawal symptoms such as tremors and hard-to-soothe crying, about 20% compared to 52% of the standard-care babies.

The portion of American hospital beds occupied by children with suicidal or self-harming behavior has soared over the course of a decade, a large study of admissions to acute care hospitals shows.An analysis of 4,767,840 pediatric hospitalizations by researchers at Dartmouth, published on Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA, found that between 2009 and 2019, mental health hospitalizations increased by 25.8 percent and cost $1.37 billion.

In July, Jennifer O'Brien got the phone call that adult children dread.Her 84-year-old father, who insisted on living alone in rural New Mexico, had broken his hip.The neighbor who found him on the floor after a fall had called an ambulance.Ms. O'Brien is a health care administrator and consultant in Little Rock, Ark., and the widow of a palliative care doctor; she knew more than family members typically do about what lay ahead.

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the country in the summer of 2021, another virus-an endemic one spread by mosquitoes-thrashed residents of one Arizona county, causing a record-shattering outbreak that left 101 people dead, according to a study published today by Arizona health officials.The virus is West Nile, which constantly lurks in hundreds of bird species in the US and spreads to humans via mosquito bites.

62, 65, 67, 70.All these ages are important when it comes to Social Security and Medicare.And these ages are also targets in the contentious debate over how to shore up the shaky finances of the massive entitlement programs.Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley recently zeroed in on raising the retirement age for Americans in their 20s as a way to reform Social Security, saying it should match their life expectancy.

Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.Stephanie Nano (AP) Pfizer's Covid-19 pill Paxlovid won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisers Thursday, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval by the Food and Drug Administration.The medication has been used by millions of Americans since the FDA granted it emergency use authorization in late 2021.

WASHINGTON Pfizer's COVID-19 pill Paxlovid won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisers Thursday, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval by the Food and Drug Administration.The medication has been used by millions of Americans since the FDA granted it emergency use authorization in late 2021.

A panel of expert advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday endorsed Paxlovid as a treatment for adults with Covid who are at high risk for progression to severe illness.The move is likely to lead to full approval of the drug, which has been available under emergency use authorization.

Mayor Adams Tuesday marked the third anniversary of NYC's first confirmed death from the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed 45,000 lives since March 2020."COVID-19 devastated our city, our families, and our lives," Adams said, in a statement."Today, as we mark three years since we recorded the loss of the first New Yorker to the pandemic, we pause to recognize the pain the past three years have brought."