Public Health

The days of the orderly succession of individual dominant variants (alpha, beta, delta, etc.) are likely over, with the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic to be marked by the splintering of a single strain, or what experts call "convergent…

Monkeypox cases in the U.S. peaked in early August and have since fallen more than 85 percent. The outbreak's quick downfall can mainly be attributed to four factors, experts told The New York Times. 

The World Health Organization is sending additional specialists and supplies to Uganda to aid in Ebola response efforts, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said Oct. 12.

Primary care providers should routinely screen all children ages 8 and older for anxiety, according to final recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force published Oct. 11 in JAMA. 

Eighty-seven percent of global physicians feel there is a lack of guidelines to treat patients with long COVID-19, a survey published Oct. 11 from Sermo found. 

While the U.S. keeps close watch on several omicron variants that can more easily evade immunity ahead of an anticipated winter surge, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator believes there's reason to remain optimistic. 

Polio has been detected in a wastewater sample from Brooklyn (Kings County) and Queens County from August, the New York State and City Departments of Health said Oct. 11.

Experts are raising concerns over COVID-19 isolation guidelines after a new study showed 80 percent of symptomatic participants who were infected when the omicron BA.1 variant was dominant were still testing positive five days after symptom onset. 

Evidence mounted suggesting COVID-19 likely spread zoonotically  — an animal to human jump — as the debate into the pandemic's origins flared up again after a new report from an expert panel, Science reported Oct. 10.

Nearly half of U.S. adults reported misrepresentation and/or nonadherence regarding public health measures against COVID-19.