The multicenter study analyzed 851 adolescents aged between 10 and 18, with 756 (89%) of children reporting headaches over the study period.

In a new study sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers provide additional evidence that COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy helps protect babies younger than 6 months from being hospitalized due to COVID-19. The risk of COVID-19 hospitalization among babies was reduced by about 80 percent during the Delta wave (July 1–December 18, 2021) and 40 percent during the Omicron wave (December 19–March 8, 2022).

In a recently published study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Aviana Rosen a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Allied Health Sciences, and Tania Huedo-Medina, associate professor of biostatistics, share their findings about social media usage in Spain during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. They found social media use increased across all groups of Spanish adults as it served as a form of social support during a time when people were prohibited from seeing friends and family in-person, and from participating in their regular habits or hobbies for stress relief.

COVID-19 vaccines reduced the potential global death toll during the pandemic by more than half in the year following their implementation, a mathematical modelling study published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases estimates.

Engineers can adapt weather forecasting models to give individuals a personalized assessment of their risk of exposure to COVID-19 or other diseases.

The original SARS-CoV-2 viral strain that emerged in early 2020 was able to latch on to sugars known as sialic acids, found on the surface of human cells, an ability that later strains did not retain. This binding was found using a combination of magnetic resonance and extremely precise high-resolution imaging, conducted at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and University of Oxford, and published in the journal Science this week. This unique ability in the early strain also raises the possibility that this is how the virus first transferred from animals to humans.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have released a comprehensive set of data standards to help standardize definitions and set the framework to capture and better understand how COVID-19 impacts cardiovascular health.

About The Study: The results of this study suggest that receipt of a fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine conferred high protection against COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths among long-term care facility residents in Israel during a substantial Omicron variant surge but protection was modest against infection.

About The Study: In this study of more than 45,000 women who gave birth at hospitals in the greater Boston area, racial and ethnic disparities in postpartum care were exacerbated following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as access to postpartum care recovered more slowly among Black and Hispanic women than white women.

About The Study: Researchers estimated the change in travel-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with the transition from in-person conference attendance to a virtual oncology conference before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.