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The most common symptoms on day 10 were shortness of breath (38.7%), cough (31.8%), insomnia (31.5%), and fatigue (29.3%).

Survey results also revealed that women who had been sick with COVID were more likely to report heavy bleeding, missed periods, and spotting.

Using several public datapoints, the group looked for trends including any that might signal tradeoffs between COVID burden and economic and educational outcomes.

COVID activity is on the rise in the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean and European regions, as well the South East Asia region where infections are up…

Underlying medical conditions significantly associated with long COVID were anxiety and/or depression, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, suppressed immune system, and ischemic heart disease.

Improving uptake of the drug, a component of Paxlovid, could help reduce longer term outcomes, as well as severe disease, the authors said.

Frequent staff testing had the biggest impact in the prevaccine months, but still made a difference through the Omicron wave.

The newly signed law requires declassification within the next 90 days and focuses on the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Fitbit tracking and the participant survey found that lower step counts persisted, even after COVID restrictions eased.

Teens who slept less than 7 hours per school night were 17% more likely to report difficulty with schoolwork than those who slept 8 to…