The risk of long COVID was two to three times higher after the initial infection (14.8%) than after first (5.8%) or second (5.3%) reinfections.
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 pandemic has pushed the number of people needing humanitarian assistance up 40%, a record high.
The number of Americans currently hospitalized for COVID-19 reaches 96,039, up from 93,219 the day before.
The report calls for increased transparency on vaccine and treatment development and meeting states' needs for scarce medical supplies.
A study in Clinical Infectious Diseases yesterday found that 1% of US blood donations late last year and in early 2020 contained SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, suggesting that the virus was present in the United States earlier than previously thought.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was first recognized in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and the initial US case was identified on Jan 19.
FDA experts will likely meet Dec 17 to review safety and efficacy data.
Shortages are supplemented but not fixed with traveling nurses, other steps.
Black children had more than triple the rate of multisystem inflammatory syndrome than white kids did.
The number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 continues a record-breaking rise.
A small German autopsy study of COVID-19 victims in Nature Neuroscience today demonstrates the presence of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—in nasal structures and the brain, suggesting that the virus crosses into the central nervous system (CNS) via nasal surfaces that contain nerve endings for smell.
Through Sep 24, the CDC says, seroprevalence rates ranged from 0% to 23%.
