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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Blacks and Hispanics were 1.9 and 1.8 times, respectively, more likely than whites to test positive.
Facilities with higher rates of minorities had almost 4 times the COVID-19 cases.
The CDC again waffles on guidance, this time regarding the mode of virus spread.
One involves a symptomatic passenger who likely infected at least 12 others.
India, with 5.5 million cases, is closing in on the US, which has 6.8 million.
Acute stress and depression rates rose in US adults as COVID-19 cases and deaths accumulated from mid-March to mid-April, largely related to preexisting mental and physical conditions and stressors such as job and wage loss, according to a study of 6,514 people from three large, nationally representative cohorts.
Also, the CDC reverses itself on controversial testing guidance.
The global total tops 30 million cases only 4 days after surpassing 29 million.
Increased age, male sex, non-Hispanic black ethnicity, and certain underlying health conditions are associated with a greater risk of hospitalization from COVID-19, according to an analysis of data from more than 5,000 hospitalized adults. A group based at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported its findings today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The authors of one study say those with COVID should isolate from people and animals.
