U.S. death toll tied to long COVID exceeds 4,000, CDC report says

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Long COVID illnesses contributed to 4,055 deaths in the U.S. through the end of June 2022, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Scientists are racing to understand long COVID’s cause. Oneis that the syndrome is caused by residual viral debris that continues to activate and/or exhaust the immune system. Another attributes it to virus that hides and replicates undetected in organs where the immune system can’t get to it. The simplest explanation — that a case of severe COVID-19 does lasting harm to organs — doesn’t account for why people who were scarcely ill sometimes wind up with long COVID.

While women are thought to develop long COVID more frequently than men, the study found death certificates citing long COVID were slightly more likely to name men than women .A new research initiative will explore whether the persistence of coronavirus in the body plays a role in the development of long COVID.

Cardiovascular problems have already appeared on both expanded lists. Several months into the pandemic, doctors and scientists began to recognize that the coronavirus was causing blood clots, leading to strokes, heart attacks and emboli.by Al-Aly and his colleagues showed that, in the period from one to 12 months after patients recovered from COVID-19, they had an increased risk for a wide range of cardiovascular problems.

 

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