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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Adults with COVID-19 were almost twice as likely to report dining at a restaurant.
India again reports a record 1-day total for anywhere in the world, with 96,551 new cases.
Four of 26 competitive athletes (15%) who had recovered from mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 had evidence suggestive of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, according to a research letter published today in JAMA Cardiology.
As many as 1 in 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients may experience a pneumothorax.
Officials warn of a funding gap on efforts to speed the development of drugs, vaccines, and tests.
About 62% of Americans worry that political pressure will rush vaccine approval.
Results of a nationwide survey today show that 40.9% of Americans have avoided medical care because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, including 12.0% who avoided emergency care and 31.5% who avoided routine care. The results are published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The pause is standard whenever an unexplained illness occurs.
The authors say their findings confirm seroprevalence studies in hard-hit areas.
A new study in Transboundary and Emerging Disease calculated the case-fatality rate (CFR) of COVID-19 infections in 53 countries or regions that experienced a second wave—or resurgence—of coronavirus activity, and found a significantly lower death rate among all confirmed cases than in the first wave.
This is the first study to compare the CFR in the first and second waves of the pandemic.
