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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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"Interdisciplinary cooperation is needed for comprehensive care of these patients."
Parts of Peru and Paraguay are also reporting pressure on ICUs, with Venezuela and Uruguay reporting surges.
The NIAID says the company may have included outdated data from a clinical trial.
People with COVID-19 infections who also used the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) drug infliximab had significantly fewer detectable antibodies than those who used vedolizumab, which treats IBD without the immune suppression, according to a study yesterday in Gut.
"We can look at the surge that happened in Europe, and we do not want that to happen."
"The inequitable distribution of vaccines is not just a moral outrage. It's also economically and epidemiologically self-defeating."
Infection rate dropped 5% for every 1 ng/mL increase in Black patients with a vitamin D level of at least 30 ng/mL.
Compared with the 2014 to 2019 flu seasons, COVID-19's effect in March and April 2020 resulted in a dramatically higher rate of deaths, mechanical ventilation procedures, and hospitalizations at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine late last week.
For middle schools and high schools in areas with high community spread, 6 feet is still recommended.
More than a dozen countries restarted immunizations with the vaccine, but others did not.
