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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The effects were especially apparent among 16-year-olds, those with parents with lower educational attainment, and those with lower genetic susceptibility to depression.
Children with a vaccine-hesitant parent varied by vaccine: 56% for COVID, 31% for flu, 30% for HPV, and 12% for other childhood illnesses.
Type 1 diabetes incidence was 8.6 per 100 person-years during, versus before, the pandemic among uninfected participants and 14.0 among the infected.
The findings showed lower risks of death, intensive care unit admission, and need for ventilation among Paxlovid recipients.
Several factors before pregnancy were linked to an increased likelihood of developing long COVID, most notably obesity.
Wastewater levels are now at the high level, as other COVID indicators rise, especially in seniors and in western states.
Migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people have an 84% higher COVID-19 infection rate and a 46% higher death rate, data reveal.
The team arrived at 6 target pathogens: the viruses that cause polio, influenza A, influenza B, mpox, COVID-19, and measles.
Only 45% of first reinfections among those who experienced a severe initial infection were mild.
FEMA has said it expects to fulfill funding obligations for the pandemic through August 2026.
