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 Connecticut, 2.9% of asymptomatic pregnant women tested positive, while in Boston it was 1.5%.
Another study of hydroxychloroquine was paused to look for safety signals, with some nations banning its use.
A study yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine of more than 2,000 Europeans diagnosed as having mild to moderate COVID-19 shows that 87% reported loss of smell, and 56% reported taste dysfunction. The study suggests olfactory symptoms and taste disorders may be a common feature of COVID-19 infection.
Worries are also rising about the pandemic's impact on the healthcare of Latin Americans who have noncommunicable diseases, who make up 25% of the population.
Health officials in St. Louis are calling for Lake of the Ozarks partygoers to quarantine for 14 days.
Low oxygen levels at hospital admission and signs of inflammation were the strongest predictors of serious COVID-19 illness and death in a prospective cohort study published late last week in BMJ.
The community infection rate dropped 58% after the orders were issued.
Also, hospitals in India and Chile are reaching their limits.
The data show the antiviral drug cut recovery time from 15 to 11 days.
Experts say activity isn't under control in 24 states.
