Adults living with HIV are 29% more likely to have long-term COVID symptoms, study suggests.
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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No similar link found between infection and impaired fertility in females, new review suggests.
The perceived safety of the MMR vaccine is now 83% (down from 86%).
A new study finds no increase in autism rates in babies born to mothers who received COVID-19 vaccines just before or during pregnancy, compared with children of unvaccinated moms.
Relative to people of healthy weight, those with class 3 obesity were 3 times more likely to be hospitalized for or die of infection.
An estimated 17,400 more cancer deaths occurred during the pandemic, 13% more than expected.
Conservatives living in liberal regions had a 60% likelihood of receiving a booster dose, compared with under 35% in conservative areas.
Efficacy was similar against the SARS-CoV-2 KP.3.1.1 and XEC variants.
Of adults ages 50 and older, 42% remain unvaccinated.
The low-cost drug may lower the risk of clinician-diagnosed long COVID by 40% to 60%.
Immune system dysfunction may play a role, the authors of the study say.
