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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Results suggest that 54 million US COVID-19 infections were missed in official records after home tests were widely deployed and institutional testing waned.
In one study, over half of long-COVID patients also were diagnosed as having myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.
Wastewater levels for COVID-19 remain high but are low for RSV and influenza.
Prevention should focus on COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy, the authors say.
Among adults for whom RSV vaccines are recommended, 21% say they will definitely get vaccinated this upcoming season.
The findings of the first study suggest that the antivirals are unlikely to contribute to viral rebound and to spread in the community under current conditions, the authors say.
People who had 2 COVID infections were more than twice as likely to report long COVID as those with 1 infection, and the risk rose with more reinfections.
If the third vaccine dose was administered 16 weeks or less before infection, healthcare providers had lower odds of reporting respiratory symptoms.
All children in the study were screened for autism between 16 and 30 months of age.
One of the most striking findings was that post-COVID deficits in hospitalized patients looked similar to 20 years of normal aging.
