"So many of them perhaps had a little bit of a temperature, but that was it, so in terms of typical COVID-19 symptoms, they didn't always have them. And we were quite surprised by what we have found on the heart because we did not expect this, to be very honest,...
severe disease. Just these additional patients alone could easily collapse our overrun health care system. A transitory collapse has already happened in many regions of our nation during this pandemic which resulted in needed and sometimes urgent non-COVID-19 care to be delayed and sometimes ...
If you have COVID-19,your symptomsmay be relatively mild and manageable at home. That’s true for most people. But if you’re older or have another illness such asdiabetesorheart disease, you’re more at risk for the serious form ofCOVID-19. Some people -- about 1 in 6 -- will ...
Pneumonia is a key criterion for the severity of COVID-19. Whether COVID-19 symptoms are indicators of pneumonia in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants is unclear. 6200 non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19 from three sites in three hospitals were divided into three cohorts: ...
Understanding how people decide when to seek out information can offer important insights into best practices for scientific communication, which may be critical in the face of global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined how expected inform
How Long Does COVID Last? You may wonder if COVID-19 is still a thing or how long an infection lasts, especially if you're having symptoms. For most people with mild infections, COVID goes away after a few weeks. But for others, the symptoms can linger for weeks or months. The bes...
If your symptoms are very mild, or even without fever, you will not be given the treatment for COVID-19. You will go home with cold pills. Do you really think it's worth the trip? Remember, the severe pneumonia caused by COVID-19 has a characteristic feature: dyspnea. This is a ve...
To that end, Lavine and Diamond, are working to develop a mouse model of the heart injury. To emphasize the urgency of the work, Lavine pointed to the insidious nature of the heart damage COVID-19 can cause. "Even young people who had very mild symptoms can developheart problemslater on...
that doctor started treating her for acid reflux. Gastrointestinal problems like GERD (gastroesophageal acid reflux) are a less-known but fairly common symptoms among COVID-19 patients. Apparently, acid was aspirating into Thebe’s lungs, and that’s what was causing the shortness of breath. Bin...
More than a quarter of kids who get Covid-19 may develop long-term symptoms, according to astudy from June. A2021 studysuggested that it may be even more; more than half of children between ages 6 and 16 in that study had at least one Covid-19 symptom that lasted more than four mo...