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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The company that obtained and analyzed study data would not comply with an audit, the study authors say.
Though no effect was found, the study was stopped early because of low enrollment.
Hot spots include Brazil, Mexico, Peru, India, and Iran, and global deaths are nearing 400,000.
The NIH director says some candidates will be ready for large-scale testing as early as July.
A study published today in JAMA Surgery has found a 0.93% overall incidence of COVID-19 among pediatric patients undergoing urgent surgery in three US hospitals, but with wide regional variations.
Lancet editors issue a statement acknowledging the criticism of a recent study.
One study found that obese patients were likely to require mechanical ventilation.
Americans could be at risk of worse outcomes for non-COVID emergencies.
The WHO is worried about accelerating epidemics, especially in Central and South America.
Physical distancing, enhanced screening, and quarantining of people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19—without a lockdown—reduced the spread of the novel coronavirus outside of a hard-hit South Korean province by up to 34%, results of a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases suggest.
