The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration is investing $500 million in the universal vaccine project.
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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Yesterday, 75% of cases were in 10 nations, mostly in the Americas and South Asia.
New data show that 600 frontline US health workers have died from COVID-19.
Keeping infected moms in rooms separate from their babies is one approach, but with breast milk options.
Twelve cases have now been reported in a new Ebola outbreak in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), up from eight last week. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed in an email today that there are 12 cases in Equateur province, which includes 9 confirmed and 3 probable infections. Five deaths have been reported.
"I do think there is a potential, unfortunately, for this to be a seeding event," says CDC Director Redfield.
Two studies in France highlight the multisystem inflammatory disorder.
A study yesterday in The Lancet presents the clinical findings of autopsies conducted on six German patients (four men and two women, aged 58 to 82 years) who died from COVID-19 in April. All six had evidence of extensive brain pathologies at the time of death.
Each patient had severe viral pneumonia caused by COVID-19 and required mechanical intubation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
UK researchers stop a large hydroxychloroquine trial after no benefit was found in hospitalized patients.
The drug did not show effectiveness for postexposure prevention of COVID-19.
The company that obtained and analyzed study data would not comply with an audit, the study authors say.
