With a recent surge in influenza, COVID-19, norovirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and other respiratory viruses, it's critical to pay close attention to your heart and symptoms—especially if you have heart disease or the risk factors for it.
Historically, COVID-19 symptoms have been fevers or chills, cough, shortness of breath, cough, congestion or a runny nose, sore throat, loss of taste or smell, fatigue and body aches, headache, nausea or vomiting or diarrhea, according to the CDC.
Jan. 20, 2025, marks five years since the CDC reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 on American soil.
It's that time of year: highly contagious illnesses like the flu, COVID-19 and Norovirus are spreading in the Tampa Bay area – and the recent cold weather isn't helping slow the spread.
Nearly two-thirds of those with long Covid continue to struggle with symptoms, including a reduced capacity for exercise and cognitive function, in the second year of illness, a study has found. Researchers,
“Overall, female sex was associated with a 1.31-times higher risk of long COVID,” researchers said. “In age-stratified analyses, female sex was associated with the highest risk of long COVID among adults aged 40 to 54 years followed by those aged 55 years or older.”
Two-thirds of people with post-COVID-19 syndrome have persistent, objective symptoms – including reduced physical exercise capacity and reduced cognitive test performances – for a year or more, with no major changes in symptom clusters during the second year of their illness,
Over 160,000 people this season have landed in the hospital from flu complications, CDC estimates. More than 6,600 have died. Here's the symptoms.
Two-thirds of people who have post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS), which is also known as long COVID, have symptoms that include poorer cognitive function into the second year of illness, a new study published Thursday in PLOS Medicine reveals.
COVID-19 vaccination reduces severity of acute disease, but does not decrease neurological manifestations of Long COVID.
Flu symptoms tend to hit more quickly than cold symptoms, and can last anywhere from a few days to two weeks. — COVID-19 can cause fever, chills, cough, short of breath, sore throat, congestion, loss of smell or taste, fatigue, aches, headache ...
As of Jan. 20, the CDC reports that RSV activity has peaked in most of the U.S., particularly among young children—a group highly vulnerable to severe RSV infections. Emergency room visits and hospitalizations are the highest in children, while hospitalizations among older adults are high in some areas.