Overall, 57% of participants had evidence on PET/MRI of inflammation affecting the heart or lungs.
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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In addition, a large group of scientists signs on to the John Snow Memorandum to mobilize against the herd immunity response concept.
A study yesterday in Journal of School Choice found that US schools in poor districts with large non-white student populations are less likely to reopen fully for the 2020 to 2021 academic year.
Tuberculosis notifications in the hard-hit countries of India, Indonesia, and the Philippines have fallen 25% to 30% because of pandemic-related disruptions.
In US developments, cases are rising in 36 states, including a large swath of the Midwest and Northeast.
In one of the first large-scale studies of COVID-19 transmission in US childcare programs, no association was found between day care exposure and COVID-19 transmission risk for providers.
Those who consulted government sources held more science-based beliefs about the pandemic.
Both a vaccine trial and monoclonal antibody trial have been paused.
Only 2 of 101 newborns had positive COVID-19 test results, but they had no signs or symptoms.
The first SARS-CoV-2 infections in US animals were confirmed in large cats at the Bronx Zoo in March during the height of the local COVID-19 outbreak. An American Society for Microbiology study today details the genomic characteristics of viruses that infected zookeepers, four tigers, and three African lions, supporting a human-to-animal transmission pathway.
The vast majority of the world is still susceptible to the virus, the WHO director says.
