Overall vaccine effectiveness was 29% against COVID-19–associated hospitalization.
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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Patients not needing ventilators who were given high-titer plasma had a 34% lower risk of death within 30 days.
Almost half (45.4%) of intensive care unit (ICU) physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers in England reported a mental disorder during the pandemic, including suicidal thoughts, according to survey results published in Occupational Medicine yesterday.
"We're telling states now to vaccinate their most vulnerable people."
The cumulative pediatric hospitalization rate jumped from 2.0 per 100,000 children in May to 7.2 in November.
UK hospitals in the hardest-hit areas are struggling, and deaths are up 46% in the past week.
Nonwhite Americans, those with low incomes or less than a high school education, and veterans were much more likely to die of COVID-19 than others in a simulation study published yesterday in PLOS Medicine, backing the findings of previous research.
Symptoms like fatigue, breathing problems persisted in 76% of patients.
In New York City, deaths caused by ischemic heart disease increased 139% during the pandemic.
As the world sees its deadliest day of the pandemic so far, China announces dates for a mission to arrive to probe origins of the virus.
California, Arizona, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Rhode Island have the highest case rates.
