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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Physicians and nurses received the highest ratings for providing general health information, with about half of respondents saying they trusted them "a great deal."
An unpublished study involving nearly 150,000 COVID-19 survivors who had mild infections in Salt Lake City suggests that many still had chest pain 6 months and 1 year later.
About 63% were prescribed empiric antibiotics, but only 7% had bacterial co-infection, and only 3% had a respiratory bacterial co-infection.
The most common untruth was not telling someone who was going to spend time with their child that they knew or suspected the child had COVID-19.
Tedros urged countries to share what led to their virus source assessments with the WHO and the science community so they can take steps to prevent future outbreaks.
Although bacterial co-infections were identified infrequently in hospitalized US COVID-19 patients, they were associated with more than double the risk of death.
Long-COVID patients had more blood clots in the lungs, ischemic stroke, coronary artery disease, and other cardiovascular conditions.
Chinese export of active pharmaceutical ingredients has been complicated by pandemic-related supply-chain chaos and, more recently, the lifting of the country's zero-COVID policy.
The COVID-19 booster was 74% effective against Omicron infection compared with the primary vaccine series for 3 months, but protection waned to 36% after 6 months.
From 1985 to 2022, the US government invested $31.9 billion in research yielding discoveries that contributed to the design of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in 2020.
