HHS received a list of 100 ways it could better prepare for and respond to public health emergencies such as pandemics.
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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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%.
Five COVID-19 patients in their 30s and 40s had large-vessel ischemic strokes from Mar 23 to Apr 7 in a New York City health system, more than five times what the system had been seeing every 2 weeks in the past year, according to a research letter published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The feds will send states enough materials to test 2% of the population.
