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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Global cases dropped 76% over the past 28 days, while deaths were down 66%.
Two new observational studies suggest that COVID-19 vaccination lowers long-COVID incidence and severity.
Aircraft wastewater surveillance could be used with traveler-based surveillance to provide an early warning system for COVID-19 and other pathogens.
Structural changes in the brain may explain the persistent fatigue and neuropsychiatric complications tied to long COVID.
Transmission in healthcare settings and bars and nightclubs was most likely to involve at least 5 infections, with nightlife cases more likely to generate further spread.
The company, however, recently filed for bankruptcy, citing the prolonged FDA authorization process.
The Department of Energy, with "low confidence," says SARS-CoV-2 may have come from a lab, and a controversial doctors groups touts ivermectin for the flu and RSV.
About half of long-COVID patients who were on sick leave at 4 months were still on sick leave at 2 years.
The authors conclude that some of the increased antibiotic prescribing may have been inappropriate.
Two years into the pandemic, US cancer screening rates still hadn't recovered to pre-crisis levels, putting millions at risk, new data reveal.
