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TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Comedian and commentator Bill Maher recently made news of his own when he contracted COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated.But such breakthrough COVID-19 cases among the vaccinated are rare, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Case Investigations Team.Nearly 10,300 SARS-CoV-2 infections have occurred in vaccinated people in the United States as of the end of April, out of about 101 million people who had received the full series of vaccine jabs, the researchers reported May 25 in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report."Even though [U.S. Food and Drug Administration]-authorized vaccines are highly effective, breakthrough cases are expected, especially before...

TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Although older adults are among the most vulnerable to the ravages of COVID-19, new research warns that young patients can develop long-lasting fatigue and concentration problems, even if their COVID-19 infection was mild.That's the troubling takeaway from three COVID-19 cases involving patients between the ages of 19 and 30. Investigators said they all developed what amounted to classic symptoms of the disorder commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).When they contracted COVID-19 between April and June of 2020, "all three had relatively mild respiratory illnesses, and none required oxygen or hospitalization," noted Dr. Peter Rowe, who was part of the team that reviewed the cases."But all were flattened from the beginning by fatigue...

MARTES, 25 de mayo de 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- El día en que Jordan Chaffiotte, de 23 años, fue dada de alta del hospital tras su exitosa operación a corazón abierto debería haber sido feliz. Un motivo de celebración.En cambio, se encontró sollozando en la sala con sus padres y su hermana, luchando contra la culpa y la depresión."Antes de salir del hospital, el médico me dijo claramente que, después de una operación de corazón, era normal tener sentimientos de depresión", dijo Chaffiotte, de Bridgewater, Nueva Jersey. "Todos los médicos me advirtieron de que me sentiría así, pero no esperé que realmente me ocurriera".Los sentimientos de depresión después de una operación del corazón –o de cualquier tipo de evento cardíaco– son comunes. Sin...

TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The virus fueling the COVID-19 pandemic could become just an ordinary sniffle-causing nuisance within the next 10 years, a new study suggests.Researchers stressed that the projection is based on mathematical models, and not a crystal-ball prediction.But, they say, given what's known about the human immune response to SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- it is possible the pathogen will become "just another seasonal coronavirus.""The first wave is terrible because you have a virus that no one has been exposed to yet," said Fred Adler, senior researcher on the study.But as more and more people are exposed -- to the virus itself or to vaccines -- the human immune system will adapt, and the typical severity of COVID-19 could decline,...