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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Chinese researchers have isolated live COVID-19 virus from the feces of several patients.
Researchers reveal that discharged patients who test positive for COVID-19 again don't appear to be contagious.
All 50 states will have begun the process of reopening their economies by the end of May.
Church events held between Mar 6 and 11 at an Arkansas church—where the pastor and his wife were positive for COVID-19 and showing symptoms—led to 35 confirmed COVID-19 cases among 92 people (38%) who attended events. The super-spreading event is described today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
In other international developments, case surges stretch health systems in Russia and Brazil, and France reports illnesses associated with recent school reopenings.
In other developments, some recently reopened states report increased cases, while automakers return to work and National Parks reopen.
Patients with COVID-19 outside of Wuhan, China, shed virus RNA for a median of 17 days.
The nearly 22% of US counties with higher proportions of black people accounted for 52% of COVID-19 cases and 58% of related deaths, according to a study published late last week in the Annals of Epidemiology.
The researchers accessed public data on Apr 13 to compare predictors of COVID-19 infections and deaths in counties with 13% or more black people and those with lower percentages.
Brazil is poised to become the next pandemic epicenter, with almost 10,000 new cases reported today.
Two options are decontaminating N95s or using elastomeric respirators.
