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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Relative to 2020 respondents, 2022 participants had less confidence in the CDC, NIH, and local public health departments and more confidence in the federal government, FitBit, and genetic-testing companies.
Chronic conditions and COVID-19 symptoms during infection were risk factors for persistent symptoms, whereas hybrid immunity was protective.
In participants with long COVID, greater lung perfusion correlated with increased chronic fatigue severity.
The number of sudden cardiac arrests and sudden cardiac deaths before and during the pandemic wasn't significantly different.
The overall protection against long COVID from vaccination is likely even higher, because these estimates don't account for infections prevented by vaccines, the authors say.
Only 11% of survivors resumed full-time work by 6 months, while 12% went back to part-time work.
Hydroxychloroquine use was evenly distributed across the United States, but outpatient use of ivermectin was significantly higher in southern states.
The Trump administration also terminated advisory committees on long COVID and health equity.
The CDC says it does not anticipate posting any more updates on US respiratory disease activity this season.
Pfizer’s initial clinical trials on the drug were conducted on unvaccinated adults.
