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An increasing number of U.S. covid-19 patients are surviving after they are placed on mechanical ventilators, a last-resort measure that was perceived as a signal of impending death during the terrifying early days of the pandemic.Early reports out of Wuhan, China, and Italy cemented the impression that the vast majority of patients who required the…

Major medical centers nationwide trying to understand why some COVID-19 patients continue to have symptoms weeks and even months after having been diagnosed with the coronavirus.Amy Watson, 47, is one of those patients. She's had a fever, she said, for more than 100 days.Amy Watson.Marc Leonard"It's been maddening," said Watson, a preschool teacher in Portland,…

Share on PinterestResearch suggests that systemic inflammation in response to severe cases of COVID-19 may be responsible for heart attacks and arrhythmias. New research found that COVID-19 patients in ICU were 10 times more likely to experience arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms) than COVID-19 patients hospitalized but not admitted to ICU.The study found that cardiac arrests…

The Thusong Multipurpose Centre in Khayelitsha which serves as a Covid-19 site in Cape Town. Brenton Geach, Gallo Images The government said its biggest Covid-19 headache is patients refusing to self-isolate or use state quarantine facilities.Joe Phaahla said on average, out of every 100 positive tested people in the Western Cape, only between 15 and…

People with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes were hospitalized six times as often as otherwise healthy individuals infected with the novel coronavirus during the first four months of the pandemic, and they died 12 times as often, according to a federal health report Monday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released…