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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More than 40% of Latinos in the Baltimore-Washington, DC metropolitan region who were tested for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were positive, a rate far higher than for any other racial/ethnic group, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported yesterday in JAMA.
The global total climbs to 8,410,682 cases and 450,835 deaths.
Cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spike in at least 10 US states.
A genomic analysis of hundreds of European patients who had severe cases of COVID-19 pointed to two gene clusters—one of them related to blood type—that seemed to be associated with severe disease, according to a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Black respondents were 3.5 percentage points more likely than whites to report COVID-19 infection.
"We need more therapeutics that can be used to tackle the virus."
Also, blacks in Atlanta have a much higher hospitalization rate than whites.
Ten (28%) of 35 infected patients died, of whom 2 were asymptomatic.
In a study with implications for COVID-19 transmission, mild coughing can expel small saliva droplets through and around a face mask and travel as far as 1 meter (3.3 feet), according to a study published yesterday in Physics of Fluids.
Of the total, 3.8 million COVID-19 cases have been reported in the Americas, where the pandemic is accelerating.
