A prescription from an emergency department physician helped speed antiviral administration.
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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Just over 40% of mothers said their young babies had received Beyfortus, the new RSV antibody vaccine.
Vaccine halved risk of medically attended COVID, reduced H1N1 flu risk by 60%.
Influenza B proportions are rising in regions where flu activity is trending upward.
Both controls and cases in the trial had an approximate mortality rate of 15% at day 90.
Nationally, 6.4% of US adults reported ever having experienced long COVID
Treatment shortened symptoms by a day and also reduced viral loads.
Average weekly outgoing transfers per hospital stayed lower than the prepandemic average of 12 transfers per week for most of the pandemic.
57% of those with post–COVID-19 condition—or long COVID—said they experienced symptoms of a cognitive (thinking) deficit daily.
Unlike reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, rapid antigen tests are still subject to misinterpretation by both patients and clinicians.
Long COVID was not associated with any one trimester of pregnancy.
