The suit from 19 states and the District of Columbia contends that major restructuring has cut life-saving programs and put extra burden on states to pay for health crises.
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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A simulation estimated that reallocating COVID-19 treatment based on risk for severe infection would have prevented 16,500 COVID-related deaths.
In a case of "droplet dogma," the WHO hasn't fully recognized the role of aerosols in the transmission of respiratory viruses, they say.
Currently reported antiviral use among the general adult population has been 35% or less.
Surveys suggest that, postpandemic, workers will roughly quadruple the time they work from home compared with before the pandemic.
Obesity prevalence among children ages 4 to 5 years increased by 45% during the first year of the pandemic.
The toilet seat had the most contamination, while walls had little.
Babies exposed to COVID in-utero had triple the risk, but it wasn't as high when moms were vaccinated.
At 90-days post-infection, 8% of vaccinated cases were still reporting symptoms, compared with 27% of unvaccinated cases.
Both sperm concentration and total sperm number were significantly lower 3 months after infections.
The six studies that examined all-cause death and the 13 on diabetes-related death showed consistent increases in both.
