The suit from 19 states and the District of Columbia contends that major restructuring has cut life-saving programs and put extra burden on states to pay for health crises.
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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Niger has recorded a 12.6% case-fatality rate, which approaches Italy's 13.1%.
Five COVID-19 patients in their 30s and 40s had large-vessel ischemic strokes from Mar 23 to Apr 7 in a New York City health system, more than five times what the system had been seeing every 2 weeks in the past year, according to a research letter published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The feds will send states enough materials to test 2% of the population.
Researchers study 391 patients and 1,286 close contacts to gauge the impact of control efforts.
Pandemic activity is heating up in Russia, Latin America, and India and its neighbors.
Pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19 had similar clinical illness and outcomes as nonpregnant women of reproductive age and did not pass the virus to their newborns, according to a retrospective study published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
WHO officials are concerned about increasing trends in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and some Asian countries.
Meat and cheese plants across the country close in light of COVID-19 infections in employees.
Twenty-seven (56%) of 48 nursing home residents had no symptoms when tested, but 24 of the 27 later did.
Brisk activity continues in US hot spots, and in Brazil, hospitals in several major cities are nearing collapse after surges of patients.
