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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In 2020, 1,033,122 excess deaths were recorded, and that number rose in 2021 to 1,256, 942.
The "duckbill" N95 stopped 98% of the virus that causes COVID-19, the authors say.
The pandemic emergency classification represents a higher level of alarm that builds on existing IHR mechanisms.
Early oral antiviral drug administration was associated with a 23% reduction in long COVID overall.
Unflagged vaccine-skeptical content cut vaccination intent by 2.28 percentage points per user, versus −0.05 percentage points for flagged content.
Wastewater detections are up in the western region, which is also seeing a small rise in test positivity.
Chicago, after recording 64 measles cases and administering more than 30,000 vaccine doses, has passed 2 incubation periods with no new infections.
On average, COVID-19 was tied to 2 more days of sick time than influenza.
Protection against infection 4 weeks after vaccination was 52%, and against COVID-related hospital illness it was 67%.
"A brief, seemingly innocuous or benign encounter with the virus can still lead to health problems years later," one study author says.
