The most common symptom reported by healthcare workers was fatigue.
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 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.
A Chinese study, however, finds the drug not effective against serious disease.
As many as 9,000 additional deaths in the country could be attributed to COVID-19.
A study involving patients in China found a 2.4-times-higher death rate in men than in women.
Niger has recorded a 12.6% case-fatality rate, which approaches Italy's 13.1%.
