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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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In a Chinese study, 45% had at least 1 persistent symptom after a year, and 16% had at least 3 symptoms.
Also, CDC data show similar side effects after a third Pfizer vaccine dose as seen after the second dose.
Cases and deaths continue to drop globally, but infections continue at very high levels.
Seven COVID-19 symptoms can maximize detection of COVID-19 in the community, according to a large study published in PLOS Medicine yesterday that looked at data from England's REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission-1 (REACT-1) study.
Pfizer and BioNTech say an application for emergency use authorization in kids 5 to 11 years old will likely follow.
Of the women, 8.14% used cannabis in spring 2020, compared with 6.75% before the pandemic.
Vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was up to 91.5% in Israeli teens 12 to 15 years old during the Delta (B1617.2) variant outbreak, according to a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The data show that 1.2 million fewer people have been diagnosed and treated for TB in 2021 than in 2019.
In the past week, new daily COVID-19 cases fell 20%, deaths dropped 0.8%, and hospitalizations fell 8.9%.
Such a drop has not been seen in a single year since World War II in Western Europe.
