Overall, 57% of participants had evidence on PET/MRI of inflammation affecting the heart or lungs.
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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Pregnant black and Hispanic women at two Philadelphia hospitals were five times more likely than their white and Asian peers to have been exposed to COVID-19, according to a study published yesterday in Science Immunology.
With the dramatic nationwide rise in COVID-19 cases, widespread concerns about thin supplies of protective equipment remain.
Younger people appear to be spreading the virus to older family members, according to a new report.
A dramatically scaled-back version of the hajj pilgrimage began in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
One study finds that staff working at more than one nursing home had quadruple the risk of infection.
An observational study of 10,021 COVID-19 patients admitted to 920 German hospitals has found that patients requiring mechanical ventilation were at highest risk for death—especially those 80 years and older and those needing dialysis.
Some CDC data assessment may perpetuate racial disparities, one study finds.
Arizona has seen a 13% decrease in its 7-day average, Florida an 8% drop, and Texas a 19% decline.
Vietnam, Greece, Germany, and other nations that had low levels scramble to address flare-ups.
More than 2 million American workers called in sick in a single week in mid-April, causing the highest absence rate on record and leading to suspicions that COVID-19 cases were substantially undercounted, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
