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During the COVID pandemic, care-seeking for heart-related illness fell, with long-term fallout likely --study

Tue, 2024-01-09 10:16 — mike kraft

Care-seeking for heart-related illness fell amid pandemic—with long-term fallout likely Wavebreakmedia / iStock CIDRAP

Rates of long-term major adverse cardiovascular events (CVEs) fell after the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020 and remained lower over the next year among commercially insured New England patients seeking care, and the incidence of congestive heart failure (CHF) and angina (chest pain) remained lower than expected.

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Explainer: What to know about the spreadof the new Covid-19 variant

Mon, 2024-01-08 09:40 — mike kraft

There’s a New Covid-19 Variant and Cases Are Ticking Up. What Do You Need to Know? - KFF Health News The covid-19 virus is continually changing, and a recent subvariant, the JN.1, is rapidly climbing the charts. khnkit KFF Health News

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Virus cases in the U.S. are surging, prompting fears of a ‘tripledemic.’

Mon, 2024-01-08 09:32 — mike kraft

Why fears over a ‘tripledemic’ are surging Cases of three major respiratory viruses — the flu, COVID-19 and RSV — are surging in the U.S., pushing the country toward a feared “tripledemic” during its first post-pandemic respiratory viral se… colinmeyn The Hill

Cases of three major respiratory viruses — the flu, COVID-19 and RSV — are surging in the U.S., pushing the country toward a feared “tripledemic” during its first post-pandemic respiratory viral season. ...

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Long Covid may cause changes in body that make exercise debilitating – Dutch study

Fri, 2024-01-05 11:06 — mike kraft

Long Covid causes changes in body that make exercise debilitating – study Experts say severe muscle damage, mitochondrial problems and microclots may explain impact of working out The Guardian

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Long COVID: CDC death date in U.S.; why it is a curse in low income nations

Thu, 2024-01-04 10:54 — mike kraft

Long COVID Has Caused Thousands of US Deaths: New CDC Data Fresh estimates from the CDC show a growing death tally from long COVID —– with numbers expected to increase as diagnostic expertise improves. Lisa Rapaport Medscape

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COVID, flu severity similar, but Omicron BA.5 patients more likely to die--study

Tue, 2024-01-02 17:51 — mike kraft

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Long covid still confounds us. Here’s what is now known.

Tue, 2024-01-02 10:40 — mike kraft

Four years on, long covid still confounds us. Here’s what we now know. As many as 7 percent of Americans report having suffered from a slew of lingering symptoms after enduring covid. Frances Stead Sellers The Washington Post

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Other critical illnesses as well as COVID can affect brain health --Danish study

Fri, 2023-12-29 12:36 — mike kraft

A study involving hospitalized adults today in JAMA Network Open finds that severe COVID-19 negatively affects brain health, but no more so than pneumonia, heart attack, or other critical illnesses.

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