Unvaccinated COVID-19 patients with preexisting myocardial injury have a substantially greater risk for six adverse COVID-19 outcomes, including death and severe disease.
Provisional data from the National Center for Health Statistics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that US overdose deaths in 2021 increased at half the pace of 2020 but are still up 15%.
For patients hospitalized with COVID-19, persistent viral shedding occurs frequently and is associated with in-hospital delirium and increased six-month mortality.
Survivors of COVID-19 hospitalization have improvement in physical and mental health over two years, but the burden of symptomatic sequelae remains high.
Children exposed to SARS-CoV-2 who developed Multisystemic Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) present with specific retinal microvascular changes, a study shows.
Evidence of quality control problems was hidden by a company contracted by the US government to produce hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses, a new House committee report shows.