The risk of long COVID was two to three times higher after the initial infection (14.8%) than after first (5.8%) or second (5.3%) reinfections.
Plaque growth can lead to a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and other life-threatening cardiovascular events for as long as 1 year.
Post-exertional malaise, or exercise intolerance, was seen in 36% of those with long COVID.
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One study finds dramatically lower protection against infection—but not hospitalization or death—5 to 7 months after vaccination.
The FDA is slated to discuss the authorization during an Oct 26 meeting.
The plan aims to have 70% of each country's population vaccinated by mid-2022.
More than 140,000 US children lost a parent or other caregiver from COVID-19 during the pandemic, representing one caregiver loss for every four coronavirus deaths, suggests a modeling study today in Pediatrics.
Allocations and purchase limits for some treatments are rolling out across the US.
Aside from quadrupling the supply of home tests, officials say access will expand to free testing at community sites, which includes pharmacies.
"Keeping up with measures that suppress transmission are hard but even more critical now."
The risk ranged from 6.8% for people with tobacco use disorder to 7.8% for those with cannabis use disorder.
A US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) analysis of Medicare data and county vaccination rates indicates that COVID-19 vaccinations administered from January until May 2021 were estimated to reduce COVID-19 infections by 265,000 and deaths by 39,000 among Medicare beneficiaries.
The vaccine is 90% effective against hospitalization caused by all variants, including Delta, for at least 6 months.
