Category: epidemiology
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We have known for some time that patients with COVID-19 are at risk for dangerous blood clots (also called deep vein thrombosis, or DVT), pulmonary embolism, and bleeding. Findings reported this month in the British Medical Journal reveal that this risk continues several months after COVID recovery.
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This new data comes from an international team of scientists which concluded that the coronavirus jumped from a caged wild animal into people at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan.
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As we deal with the fourth wave of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant, we are learning that the pandemic dramatically disrupted routine health screenings for cancer and other chronic diseases.
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Surviving COVID-19 is one thing, recovering is another.
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Many vaccinated people are indeed getting infected with omicron, yet the vaccines are still quite effective, and much better than no vaccine.
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People who were not fully vaccinated this spring and summer were ~10 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19, than those who were fully vaccinated…
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About the only thing we can say with any certitude at this time is that long COVID exists but is not easy to describe. The only constant between different long COVID patients with different symptoms is that the conditions is a collection of varied symptoms that persist long after the acute disease subsides
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