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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A COVID-influenza one-two punch could stretch the nation's hospitals to capacity.
Tweets on surveillance, technical info, treatment, and symptoms were most likely to be shared.
India reports 93,824 new cases, continuing its trend of reporting more daily cases than any other nation.
Also, the US has seen a 15% increase in pediatric cases in the past 2 weeks.
A new survey of 158 countries reveals that 1 in 4 haven't set a date for school reopening.
Preliminary data from a small study published today in Nature Medicine suggests convalescent plasma may have some efficacy in patients with severe COVID-19.
A review highlights multisystem inflammatory syndrome, and another report details no infection in kids who were highly exposed.
Inadequate monitoring and tracking allowed the virus to spread unchecked, two studies suggest.
"A shutdown would destroy the lives and dreams of millions Americans," Trump says.
A group of experts from Stanford and Harvard universities, as well as the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, propose a new model for measuring direct, indirect, and excess deaths from COVID-19 in the United States, and they say relying solely on death certificates likely undercounts the true death toll COVID-19 has taken in the United States. Their proposal is published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
