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Male sex, elevated baseline body temperature and increased respiratory rate were COVID-19 risk factors among ambulatory patients with chronic respiratory disease and acute respiratory symptoms, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.

Lung ultrasound findings significantly improved from hospitalization to 2 to 3 months after discharge in COVID-19 survivors, according to results of a study published in Respiratory Medicine.

The CDC held a media briefing regarding COVID-19 updates that included current cases and new data from a report published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on seroprevalence in the U.S.

Use of angiotensin receptor blockers was associated with less need for ventilation and vasopressors among men hospitalized with COVID-19, but not in women, according to research presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress.

The presence of respiratory muscle wasting in patients with severe COVID-19 was associated with increased in-patient mortality, according to a study presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress.

Caring for the care professional is key during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Awake prone positioning reduced intubation risk and hospital length of stay for patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen through high-flow nasal cannula, according to results of the PROCARF trial.

Incidence of suicide was higher among physicians than in the general population and affected female physicians significantly more than male, according to a study published in Psychiatry Research.

Two widely used clinical scoring systems — the Pneumonia Severity Index and CURB-65 score — comparatively predicted in-hospital mortality in patients with and without SARS-CoV-2-related community-acquired pneumonia, researchers reported.

Long-term CT abnormalities were common up to 1 year after COVID-19 pneumonia in a study published in Radiology.