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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Compared to influenza, COVID-19 patients had longer ICU stays.
The death rate was 17% higher in 2020 than in 2019 in India, implying an estimated 1.19 million excess deaths.
Researchers found a 43% drop in DR-TB case notifications in a South African province after COVID-19 lockdowns were implemented.
Two wastewater systems show high levels across most of the country.
In the entire cohort, 17,704 infants (5.2%) had a major congenital anomaly.
Rural children had longer travel times than their urban peers in all demographic subgroups and both vaccine age-groups.
A total of 15,700 death certificates listed COVID-19 as a contributing condition, and 3 of 4 recorded a COVID-19 complication or pre-existing condition as the cause.
The highest risk of developing long COVID was seen among patients infected with the original strain of the virus, when no vaccines were available.
Over 90% of COVID-19 survivors had no neutralizing antibody activity at 10 months, implying that they had lost protection from reinfection.
A lower risk of severe COVID-19 reinfection and hospitalization was seen with a longer time since dengue infection.
