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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Cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spike in at least 10 US states.
A genomic analysis of hundreds of European patients who had severe cases of COVID-19 pointed to two gene clusters—one of them related to blood type—that seemed to be associated with severe disease, according to a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Black respondents were 3.5 percentage points more likely than whites to report COVID-19 infection.
"We need more therapeutics that can be used to tackle the virus."
Also, blacks in Atlanta have a much higher hospitalization rate than whites.
Ten (28%) of 35 infected patients died, of whom 2 were asymptomatic.
In a study with implications for COVID-19 transmission, mild coughing can expel small saliva droplets through and around a face mask and travel as far as 1 meter (3.3 feet), according to a study published yesterday in Physics of Fluids.
Of the total, 3.8 million COVID-19 cases have been reported in the Americas, where the pandemic is accelerating.
Underlying conditions place 22% of people at increased risk for severe COVID-19 and 4% at high risk.
Also, NIAID Director Fauci says speeding a vaccine through trials is not compromising safety.
