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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"We're telling states now to vaccinate their most vulnerable people."
The cumulative pediatric hospitalization rate jumped from 2.0 per 100,000 children in May to 7.2 in November.
UK hospitals in the hardest-hit areas are struggling, and deaths are up 46% in the past week.
Nonwhite Americans, those with low incomes or less than a high school education, and veterans were much more likely to die of COVID-19 than others in a simulation study published yesterday in PLOS Medicine, backing the findings of previous research.
Symptoms like fatigue, breathing problems persisted in 76% of patients.
In New York City, deaths caused by ischemic heart disease increased 139% during the pandemic.
As the world sees its deadliest day of the pandemic so far, China announces dates for a mission to arrive to probe origins of the virus.
California, Arizona, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Rhode Island have the highest case rates.
In COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) early in the pandemic, 82% were in a comatose state at some point and 55% experienced delirium, reports a Lancet study published late last week. Previous studies have connected ICU delirium to higher costs, greater mortality risk, and long-term dementia.
"Vaccine nationalism hurts us all and is self-defeating."
