The proportion of excess deaths exceeded the share of the population among American Indians or Alaska Natives, Blacks, and Native Hawaiians/other Pacific Islanders.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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Patients with COVID-19 had a 21% greater risk of heart attack, stroke, and death than people with cardiovascular disease without COVID-19 infection.
COVID-19 survivors may experience severe complications that predispose them to more worse outcomes after reinfection, the authors say.
The authors said COVID-19 infection can result in a "brainstem insult" that results in clusters of physical long-COVID symptoms.
CDC researchers found that adults 65 and older continue to hospitalized for COVID at much higher rates than other age groups, yet antivirals remain underused in this age group .
At 5 Massachusetts hospitals, prolonged antibiotic use was common during the first 33 months of the pandemic, despite low rates of proven bacterial infection.
Ensuring the availability of linguistically appropriate information about vaccine recommendations and safety may help address the disparities, the authors say.
But a subsequent dose-finding study found that higher doses of the drug were tied to numerically greater symptom relief.
There was a 17% higher risk of extrasystoles, or extra heart beats, after dose one.
Results suggest that 54 million US COVID-19 infections were missed in official records after home tests were widely deployed and institutional testing waned.
In one study, over half of long-COVID patients also were diagnosed as having myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.
