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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Lancet editors issue a statement acknowledging the criticism of a recent study.
One study found that obese patients were likely to require mechanical ventilation.
Americans could be at risk of worse outcomes for non-COVID emergencies.
The WHO is worried about accelerating epidemics, especially in Central and South America.
Physical distancing, enhanced screening, and quarantining of people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19—without a lockdown—reduced the spread of the novel coronavirus outside of a hard-hit South Korean province by up to 34%, results of a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases suggest.
About 250,000 of 732,000 recent global cases were in Latin America.
Deaths have topped 40,000 in US nursing homes or long-term care facilities, a new analysis suggests.
First-year medical residents in Shanghai—500 miles away from the Chinese COVID-19 epicenter of Wuhan—had a steep decline in mood, increased depression and anxiety, and twice the level of fear of workplace violence in the first month of the pandemic, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The effects of continued distance learning will likely be worse among students already at risk, the authors say.
Also, a new poll reveals further political divisions about reopening the economy.
