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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Though quarter 1 of 2020 saw the highest exit rate, the percentage remained high throughout the study period.
A simulation estimated that reallocating COVID-19 treatment based on risk for severe infection would have prevented 16,500 COVID-related deaths.
In a case of "droplet dogma," the WHO hasn't fully recognized the role of aerosols in the transmission of respiratory viruses, they say.
Currently reported antiviral use among the general adult population has been 35% or less.
Surveys suggest that, postpandemic, workers will roughly quadruple the time they work from home compared with before the pandemic.
Obesity prevalence among children ages 4 to 5 years increased by 45% during the first year of the pandemic.
The toilet seat had the most contamination, while walls had little.
Babies exposed to COVID in-utero had triple the risk, but it wasn't as high when moms were vaccinated.
At 90-days post-infection, 8% of vaccinated cases were still reporting symptoms, compared with 27% of unvaccinated cases.
Both sperm concentration and total sperm number were significantly lower 3 months after infections.
