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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Los Angeles and San Diego say they will begin the 2020-21 school year online.
In both studies, patients receiving tocilizumab had about half the risk of dying.
With the global total about to top 13 million cases, the WHO warns countries to act.
A multicenter observational study published late last week in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health identified 78 cases of the pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome tied to COVID-19 in the United Kingdom from Apr 1 to May 10—at least 11 times more than expected.
"We need leadership, community participation, and collective solidarity."
Nearly half of Florida's ICUs are almost full, and more than 20% are completely full.
A small study by Italian researchers found that more than 87% of patients who had recovered from acute COVID-19 still had at least one symptom 2 months after illness onset.
The study, published yesterday in a research letter to JAMA, assessed 143 patients treated for acute COVID-19 at a hospital in Rome in April and May. Patients were assessed a mean 60.3 days after onset of the first symptom.
The WHO posts a brief on transmission and launches a review panel.
"Be mindful of what happens when you open up and throw caution to the wind," Tony Fauci says.
Prison cases are 5.5 times higher—and death rates 3 times higher—than in the general population.
