Teens in Distress Are Swamping Pediatricians
Around the country, the setting for adolescent mental health care looks ever more like this doctors office in Kentucky, the next patient arriving every 15 minutes.
Around the country, the setting for adolescent mental health care looks ever more like this doctors office in Kentucky, the next patient arriving every 15 minutes.
Activists are also pressing President Biden to take a more forceful leadership role in the response as he convenes world leaders for a Covid-19 summit on Thursday.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
The agency stressed that the disease was still very rare in children and that a cause had not been determined.
Some studies find higher rates of erectile dysfunction among men recovering from the illness. But other factors related to the pandemic, like heightened anxiety, may also be to blame.
Nearly 15 million more people died during the first two years of the pandemic than would have been expected during normal times, the organization found. The previous count of virus deaths, from countries reporting, was six million.
Studying the coronavirus variants that have faded away could help us prepare for what comes next, scientists say.
Hospitalizations from Covid-19 are receding, but safety-net providers are facing tremendous unmet needs from poor and uninsured patients who delayed seeking care during the pandemic.
His company, Emergent BioSolutions, won a lucrative contract to produce Covid vaccines but then had to throw out millions of contaminated doses.
Both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have asked the agency to approve their vaccines for children under 5.
Both antiviral treatments and monoclonal antibodies that treat Covid-19 are available across the city, but some public health experts worry that too few people know how to get them.
In a warming world, bats in Southeast Asia will be especially prone to spreading viruses to other mammals, researchers found.
Machine learning is known for its ability to spot fraudulent credit charges or recognize faces. Now researchers are siccing the technology on viruses.
But prior infection does not guarantee protection from the virus, officials said, and Americans should still get vaccinated and boosted.
Blood tests showed a sharp increase in the proportion of people especially children and adolescents in the United States who had antibodies indicating past exposure to the virus, the agency said.