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 increase was led by surges in countries, such as Brazil, the United States, and India, that have large populations.
Also, wide guideline variations could cause inequity in equipment allocation during a public health emergency.
Meanwhile, cases continue to surge in Arizona, California, and Texas as US cases top 2.3 million.
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in New York City tripled during the start of the pandemic.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced over the weekend that it has stopped two randomized clinical trials exploring the use of the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine for treating and preventing COVID-19.
Symptoms or not, more than 90% showed steep declines in antibodies within 3 months.
"We call on all countries and all people to exercise extreme vigilance."
Meanwhile, the highest court in Oklahoma rejects a request to require masks and distancing at a Trump rally in Tulsa.
More than 40% of Latinos in the Baltimore-Washington, DC metropolitan region who were tested for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were positive, a rate far higher than for any other racial/ethnic group, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported yesterday in JAMA.
The global total climbs to 8,410,682 cases and 450,835 deaths.