The combined vaccine elicited higher immune response against SARS-CoV-2.
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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In a new study in BMC Medicine, Dutch researchers report that, 12 months after illness onset, people with initially moderate to severe COVID-19 still had impaired health-related quality of life (HRQL), but the same was not true for mild COVID-19.
A study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Michigan found that procalcitonin (PCT) trends were associated with the decision to initiate antibiotics and duration of treatment, independent of bacterial pneumonia (bPNA) status, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
One report details a massive NYC effort to probe 941,035 COVID-19 cases and follow up with their contacts.
COVID-19 vaccination of children in Qatar was tied to low to modest, rapidly waning protection against infection with the Omicron variant, but teens had slightly more robust, longer-lasting immunity, suggests a study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Those with chronic high blood pressure (BP) saw small but consequential BP increases during COVID-19.
Americans who received an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine after SARS-CoV-2 infection are more likely to experience severe systemic adverse events (AEs) than their never-infected counterparts, according to a study published yesterday in Vaccine.
Factors that contributed to higher death rates Blacks persisted, but adherence to protective measures widened along political lines, lifting fatalities in Whites.
After the COVID-19 vaccine rollout to adults, Americans living in states with Republican-controlled governments were at an 11% higher risk of COVID-19 death than those in Democrat-led states, and residents of right-leaning states had a 26% higher death rate than those in states with a left-leaning voter majority.
About 51% of patients with milder cases, 67% of hospitalized patients; and 74% of ICU patients had long COVID.
The risk of overall infant neurodevelopment didn't change in the first year of COVID-19.
