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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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today said that it's revising a policy that aimed to accelerate the availability of COVID-19 antibody tests in the wake of reports that some companies have been marketing fraudulent tests.
The report seeks to bridge the gap between current practice and the need to protect health workers.
Spain, the world's second hardest-hit country after the US, is taking cautious steps to ease its 7-week lockdown, while the US CDC launches a gene tracking consortium to help with response.
COVID-19 meat plant outbreaks have been noted in at least 5 Midwestern states.
Experts urge the WHO to develop guidance for the gradual return of passenger travel.
Though many organization have published guidance on the best way forward during this COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota saw a need for recommendations based on current realities and restrictions, not on technology such as widespread testing that may one day be in place.
An international team of experts has published guidelines in CMAJ on treating COVID-19 patients that include "weak" recommendations for using corticosteroids in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and against using corticosteroids for patients without ARDS, convalescent plasma in patients with severe disease, and antiviral drugs in general.
The opening of states is now in the hands of governors.
The UK will release a plan to begin loosening restrictions next week.
COVID-19 infected and killed more people in poor, ethnically diverse areas than in affluent, less diverse ones.
