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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About 250,000 of 732,000 recent global cases were in Latin America.
Deaths have topped 40,000 in US nursing homes or long-term care facilities, a new analysis suggests.
First-year medical residents in Shanghai—500 miles away from the Chinese COVID-19 epicenter of Wuhan—had a steep decline in mood, increased depression and anxiety, and twice the level of fear of workplace violence in the first month of the pandemic, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The effects of continued distance learning will likely be worse among students already at risk, the authors say.
Also, a new poll reveals further political divisions about reopening the economy.
Among all patients studied across 24 nations, 51.2% had pulmonary complications and 38.0% died.
The WHO issues new COVID-19-related guidance on noncommunicable disease and mass gatherings.
A multicenter study published yesterday in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease shows that 60% of asymptomatic (symptom-free) COVID-19 patients in Sichuan province, China, were diagnosed as having pneumonia on their first computed tomography (CT) scan.
Also, the US Supreme Court turns down a California church's request to ease the state's restrictions.
Trump's announcement draws strong condemnation from public health experts.
