Long-COVID patients with dizziness on standing, mood changes, and musculoskeletal pain were the most likely to report unfavorable health.
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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Simvastatin had been shown to reduce pulmonary and systemic inflammation in mouse and human models of lung injury.
While antibiotic use at three Chicago hospitals increased in COVID-19 patients at the outset of the pandemic, it declined among non–COVID patients.
Relative vaccine effectiveness was an additional 50% against critical illness.
A second study showed that COVID-19 survivors had higher rates of most studied symptoms than controls, with the greatest risks for shortness of breath, fatigue, memory loss, and headache.
Among critically ill patients, survival to hospital discharge was 62% for the vitamin C group and 65% for the control group.
The effect was especially pronounced in those given convalescent plasma within the first 48 hours of mechanical ventilation.
The study was based on outcomes seen among 660,000 UK patients from February 2020 to April 2021.
Risk factors for long or very long COVID included female sex, the presence of least one underlying condition, and moderate or severe COVID-19.
Maternal vaccination during pregnancy was not associated with neonatal hospital readmission or 6-month hospital readmission.
Patient blood samples showed signs of persistent immune-system changes believed to be related to long COVID.
