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The rate of overdose deaths among U.S. teenagers increased exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic — a first — even as drug use remained stable, researchers found.

A federal effort to vaccinate 28 million American children against COVID-19 will launch fully next week, the White House said Wednesday.

A team of researchers from Seattle and the CDC found that neutralizing antibodies remained detectable in most children 6 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, waning “to a small degree,” according to results presented at IDWeek. Presenting author Lauren E. Gentles, a graduate student at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and colleagues at the center, Seattle