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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Under 7% of dialysis patients are current with COVID vaccines, underscoring the need for antiviral treatments for patients with kidney disease.
Further tests found seasonal flu, rhinovirus, COVID, and other common respiratory viruses, alongside malaria and complications from malnutrition.
RSV activity remains high, with pediatric hospitalizations increasing across most of the country.
Three of every 4 patients did not return to prior health within 60 weeks of the initial infection.
The WHO says it is monitoring some JN.1-related variants, still in low proportions, that might have more immune escape than XEC.
Idaho, Puerto Rico, and West Virginia all had 8% or higher prevalence of long COVID.
The South and West have the highest flu levels, while COVID levels are highest in the Midwest.
About half of the claims were related to COVID vaccine, but the vast majority of money paid for claims—$6.5 million—was for harms tied to the H1N1 flu vaccine.
Many participants believe that pharmaceutical firms and public health officials minimized the vaccines' side effects.
Researchers found that SARS-CoV-2 clinical resistance to Paxlovid in the EPIC-HR study was infrequent, occurring in 6 of 530 treated participants (1.1%).
