Physical well-being returned after 3 months, but up to 20% of patients continued experiencing suboptimal overall health-related quality of life 1 year post-infection.
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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Half of 399 hospitalized COVID-19 patients developed bacterial infections 48 or more hours after hospitalization, according to a PLOS One study yesterday. The bacterial superinfections were associated most strongly with lung disease, encephalopathy, mechanical ventilation, hospital stay of 8 or more days, and steroid treatment.
Two doses of the vaccine were safe and 78% effective in preventing infection in pregnant women.
The country is ordering oxygen supplies from other nations, enough for home treatment.
There have been 100 cases of a rare neurologic syndrome in 12.8 million US J&J recipients, mostly in men over 50.
Today a consensus statement by several leading public health organizations and a commentary in the Annals of Internal Medicine voiced support for mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in US healthcare workers (HCWs).
The FDA and the CDC said so far there are not enough data to recommend a booster.
WHO head Tedros urges Moderna and Pfizer to go all out on channeling vaccine supply to COVAX.
Two doses of different vaccines were 80% to 89% effective in at-risk patients 65 years and older.
People who received the flu vaccine prior to having COVID-19 had less risk of sepsis, stroke, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and disease requiring emergency or intensive care, according to a study presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) this year.
A study of hospital patients in Israel found a link between multidrug-resistant gut bacteria and exposure to commonly used non-antimicrobial drugs (NAMDs), researchers reported last week at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).
