Long-COVID patients with dizziness on standing, mood changes, and musculoskeletal pain were the most likely to report unfavorable health.
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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Wastewater levels are at the very high level nationally, but show downward trends in the South and Midwest.
Seven percent of participants missed more than 10 days of work in the 3 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
There were no significant uptake increases in states that offered both vaccine mandates and a test-out option.
A multivariable model suggested a link only between socioeconomic disadvantage and lower health-related quality of life, particularly for limitations on physical activities and pain.
More patients had a co-diagnosis of Kawasaki disease in 2023 (30.3%) than in 2021 (8.5%).
The authors say that clinicians should continue to focus on symptoms and symptom relief rather than rely only on lab test results.
Children were less commonly vaccinated compared to adults.
About 34% of infected postmenopausal women had symptoms for 8 weeks or more, while 61% of survivors in a second study had symptoms at 2 years.
Wastewater detections have now jumped to the "very high" level.
Total vaccine coverage in all adults aged 25 years or older was 87% for the primary vaccine series.
