Overall, 57% of participants had evidence on PET/MRI of inflammation affecting the heart or lungs.
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 COVID-19 group had a higher risk of hospital readmission than the seasonal flu cohort.
As public health mandates eased, people started to travel farther, and COVID-19 spread from distant locations rose.
Researchers observed a 44% greater adjusted risk of mortality in patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa bloodstream infection and COVID-19 coinfection.
With vaccine uptake low, the CDC warns of an urgent need to increase vaccine coverage for flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
The most common long-COVID symptoms were fatigue, cognitive impairment, and pain.
Being a female GP treating COVID patients was linked to a 54% higher risk of exhaustion compared with their male counterparts.
No long COVID was reported among vaccinated athletes.
Current vaccines neutralize current variants, but there are limited data on the impact against JN.1, a steadily rising part of the BA.2.86 family.
Families headed by an adult with long COVID had higher odds of pandemic-related financial difficulties, regardless of prepandemic socioeconomic status.
The median time to symptom resolution was 6 days, and 12% of participants still had symptoms at day 10.
