After diagnosis, long-COVID patients also filled more new prescriptions for drugs such as antibiotics (45%) and those for pain (34%).
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 number of hospitals with at least 1 non-neonatal pediatric admission declined by 374 across the country.
Greater cardiac output and brain perfusion may be an attempt to compensate for impaired lung function, the authors say.
By November 9, 35% of adults reported having received the flu vaccine and 18% the updated COVID-19 vaccine, and 40% of those aged 75 years and older had ever received an RSV vaccine.
With flu and COVID levels still low but expected to rise, the CDC said vaccination is a good way to cut risk over the holiday season.
The greatest risk reductions in COVID-related and all-cause deaths were seen among women and hospitalized patients.
The cumulative incidence of depression was higher among those with migraine during fall 2020 (15%) than in those without (12%).
The authors establish that text messages sent with an ownership frame, "your [vaccine] is ready for you," were associated with higher vaccine uptake.
Three genome sequences identified 2 variants of concern: Alpha in a maned wolf and a fallow deer and Omicron in a western lowland gorilla.
As flu test positivity crept upward, emergency department visits increased slightly among children and adolescents.
Long COVID has been known to significantly diminish quality of life, increase disability, and result in economic loss in workdays lost to illness.