Vaccines averted the highest rate of deaths during the Delta period, with 68% of deaths averted.
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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Mayors and governors across the country implement new restrictions to try to reduce the caseload.
The head of the WHO urges governments to do more to reduce the pressure on healthcare workers.
A 3-month follow-up study of 142 COVID-19 survivors in China showed that 85.9% of patients had abnormalities on computed tomography (CT) chest scans and 52 (36.6%) had chronic and fibrotic changes.
US outcomes were poorer early in the pandemic, even in counties with low death rates.
The first 20 million vaccine doses could be available in December, officials say.
The drug, which has antiviral properties in animals, shows promise in a small randomized controlled trial.
An antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) intervention led by ambulatory care pharmacists was associated with improvements in guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing in a family medicine residency clinic, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
In a preliminary study conducted on 152 patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections, no patient in a group of 80 people who took a 15-day course of fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, reported clinical deterioration, as opposed to 6 (8.3%) of 72 who took a placebo.
Hospitalizations rose in all but 4 states this week, with the steepest increases in the Midwest, and deaths jumped by nearly 23%.
The findings suggest the need to develop safer measures in similar settings involving young adults, such as for schools and camps.
