Articles related to COVID-19

A Swedish national cohort analysis linked bereavement to elevated incident cardiovascular disease risk before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the strongest pandemic-period association following partner loss.

A SARS-CoV-2 variant designated BA.3.2, or “Cicada,” has been added to the WHO variants under monitoring list, with wastewater detection across at least 25 US states and 132 locations.

The current real-world cohort study examines long-term survival outcomes in the 5 years after a COVID-19 hospitalization for adults with a solid malignancy. The study assessed the impact of vaccination status, vaccine platform, primary tumor site, and cancer treatment.

“Fluvoxamine may have a beneficial role in the clinical management of fatigue in long COVID, although the condition encompasses a broad range of clinical manifestations beyond fatigue alone.” — REVIVE Trial, Annals of Internal Medicine

Genomic analyses revealed that all circulating strains were descendants of the Omicron JN.1 variant, “representing the first season without a SARS-CoV-2 strain replacement since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Dr. Joseph Wu, the study’s lead author and director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute: “These two cytokines cause inflammation to the blood vessels. They could cause inflammation to the heart.”