In contrast, the proportion who had asthma or severe headache or migraine declined from 2016 to 2022.
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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The claim comes despite the fact that no major vaccine candidate has completed clinical trials.
Scientists in New Delhi, India, report infections with worrisome multidrug-resistant Candida auris in 10 of 15 critically ill COVID-19 patients who also had candidemia over a span of several months, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm, however, says the rapid test should not be used for diagnosis.
India has reported the world's highest daily total for about 3 weeks, but today its tally jumped by 75,000 cases.
One study finds that almost a quarter of pediatric patients had conjunctivitis, or pink eye.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies involving COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine found that the antimalaria drug alone was not associated with reduced mortality in hospitalized patients, but when combined with the antibiotic azithromycin it was linked with significantly increased mortality, European researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
"This is atypical of any language I've seen coming from the CDC."
Patients with metabolic syndrome had triple the risk of dying, one study showed.
It only took 2 days for the global total to rise from 23 million to 24 million cases, and deaths have now topped 820,000.
A new study by scientists in Massachusetts is highlighting the role that super-spreading events played in the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
