The risk of long COVID was two to three times higher after the initial infection (14.8%) than after first (5.8%) or second (5.3%) reinfections.
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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Adult COVID-19 patients also infected with the flu are 4 times more likely to need mechanical ventilation and 2.4 times more likely to die.
Also, President Biden's FY 2023 budget includes $10.7 billion in discretionary funds for the CDC.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) modeling study used data from 59 US case investigation and contact tracing (CICT) programs to estimate that the programs prevented 1.11 to 1.36 million COVID-19 cases, and 27,000 to 34,000 hospitalizations over 60 days in winter 2020-21, well before the Delta and Omicron variant surges.
One study author calls the results reassuring and hopes they increase vaccine uptake.
Also, the elderly, Black Americans, and those with less education were less likely to use free at-home COVID-19 tests.
Areas seeing declines include Hong Kong, where cases are at their lowest level in a month.
The highly transmissible Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants caused triple and 10 times the rate of COVID-19 infections in pregnant women compared with other strains, with most cases among unvaccinated mothers and their newborns, finds a prospective study yesterday in JAMA.
"Just as chemicals can build up in the air, viruses can as well."
Patients were able to tolerate only about 2.5 hours per day in the position.
Aspirin appeared helpful for moderately ill but not critically ill patients.
