With increasing time since diagnosis, only the severe infections continued to cause symptoms.
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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Wastewater detections are up in the western region, which is also seeing a small rise in test positivity.
Chicago, after recording 64 measles cases and administering more than 30,000 vaccine doses, has passed 2 incubation periods with no new infections.
On average, COVID-19 was tied to 2 more days of sick time than influenza.
Protection against infection 4 weeks after vaccination was 52%, and against COVID-related hospital illness it was 67%.
"A brief, seemingly innocuous or benign encounter with the virus can still lead to health problems years later," one study author says.
The findings come as CDC advisers prepare to meet next week about the composition of upcoming COVID vaccines.
In healthy children with no comorbidities, the absolute risk of critical disease from COVID-19 was 4%.
Breast cancer screening tanked and then rebounded in the first pandemic months, while cancer treatment disruptions varied by race, age, and wave.
Pregnant women had an incidence of PASC of 25.5% compared to 33.9% non-pregnant women.
The risk of developing post-acute respiratory conditions was highest in the first 3 months after COVID-19 infection but was still elevated after 6 months.
