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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Excess deaths were 22%, 22%, and 25% above baseline in low-, medium-, and high-vaccination states in the first year of the pandemic, but 23%, 22%, and 16%, respectively, in the second.
Particulate matter, nitrous oxide, and black carbon exposures were all associated with severe outcomes.
Maternal death occurred more often in patients who had cardiac arrest, acute kidney injury, or intracranial hemorrhage (brain bleed).
The 2 heart conditions occurred within a week of vaccination in under 40 cases per million doses delivered in kids 5 to 17 years old.
Pre-infection COVID-19 vaccination was tied to a lower likelihood of persistent symptoms 45 days after infection.
The incidence of new-onset type 1 diabetes was almost double in kids diagnosed as having COVID-19.
The prevalence of eating disorders more than doubled among adolescent girls after the pandemic began.
Previous studies have shown COVID-19 primary vaccination is safe in pregnancy and not associated with an increased risk for miscarriage.
Clots were seen in multiple arteries in close to 30% of patients with COVID-19 at the time of their heart attack, but in less than 5% of heart-attack patients who did not have COVID-19.
