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Intensive Care Unit nurse Subramanya Kirugulige prepares a bed for an arriving COVID-19 patient at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago in December. A large study has found that people with severe initial cases of COVID-19 tend to be at greater risk of more health problems later on.
The potential lasting effects of COVID-19 infection are many and people with more severe initial infections are at greater risk for long-term complications, according to a study published Thursday in
Nature.
The study, thought to be the largest post-acute COVID-19 study to date, sheds more light on the lingering effects of COVID-19 known as long COVID.
Louis A Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg
Lapses in oversight allowed veterans to be killed by a night shift nursing aide at a West Virginia veterans hospital, a federal probe concluded, but the leaders who allowed those lapses haven’t been fired. Instead, they have been shifted to jobs in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The VA announced last Christmas Eve that the hospital’s director, Glenn Snider Jr., would no longer serve in that role. Snider was reassigned and has been working at a regional office.
The medical center’s top executive for nursing was also reassigned to another job within the agency last Dec. 28.
‘Clash of 2 pandemics’: Doctors find that COVID-19 spurs diabetes By Jason Gale, Bloomberg News
Published: May 9, 2021, 1:45pm
Share: A patient is treated at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center on Dec. 23, 2020, in Colton, California. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
When Ziyad Al-Aly’s research team told him how often diabetes appeared to strike COVID-19 survivors, he thought the data must be wrong, so he asked his five colleagues to crunch the numbers again.
Weeks later, they returned the same findings after sifting through millions of patient records. By then Al-Aly had also gone digging into the scientific literature and was starting to come to terms with an alarming reality: COVID-19 isn’t just deadlier for people with diabetes, it’s also triggering the metabolic disease in many who didn’t previously have it.