A randomized controlled trial found that air purifiers didn’t prevent respiratory infections in nursing homes. But experts say that’s because the machines were too small and not used consistently.
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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Experts urged individual actions to avoid protracted lockdowns and maintain hard-fought gains.
Public transportation usage dropped 72.7% across the United States from Feb 15 to May 17, but vulnerable populations and essential or physical workers were most likely to continue using it, according to a study published yesterday in PLOS One.
The protection is even better than the 90% found in an initial analysis.
The White House coronavirus task force says deaths could approach 2,000 a day in the coming weeks.
Supply chain issues could hinder vaccine rollout, and EUA data must be transparent, the report says.
Duke University's aggressive pooled surveillance COVID-19 testing program enabled large-scale testing, successfully reduced transmission, and prevented major outbreaks seen on other college campuses, according to a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) study yesterday.
Philadelphia, Ohio, Iowa, and California are among the locations where officials tightened measures to drive down their COVID-19 surges.
A research letter published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that patients who died of COVID-19 in the Netherlands were more than twice as likely to have scarring of their diaphragms than patients who died of other causes.
Of more than 5,000 hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, a third had acute kidney injury.
Of 95 COVID cases reported, 90 were in the placebo group, including all 11 serious cases.
