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Vitamin D: A Low-Hanging Fruit in COVID-19? The mainstream media was flooded this week with reports speculating on what role, if any, vitamin D may play in reducing the severity of COVID-19 infection. Observational data comparing outcomes from various countries suggest inverse links between ...
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'Straight-Up Fire' in His Veins: Teen Battles New Covid Syndrome When a sprinkling of a reddish rash appeared on Jack McMorrow's hands in mid-April, his father figured the 14-year-old was overusing hand sanitizer — not a bad thing during a global pandemic. When Jack's parents noticed that his eyes looked glossy, they ...
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Canada's nursing home crisis: 81 percent of coronavirus deaths are in long-term care facilities MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — It was not how Mary Witkowski pictured celebrating her birthday. But with visits to her nursing home suspended to keep the coronavirus out, she turned 90 on April 13 without family, in the room at the Camilla Care Community that ...
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Having coronavirus nightmares? Here's what you can do about those bad dreams. Swarms of bees out to get you. Invisible monsters assaulting your family members. Being sent to a one-person colony on Mars. Having to home school every student in your child's class. Is it just your imagination, or are your dreams getting more bizarre, vivid, ...
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How does the coronavirus cause COVID toes or loss of smell? Here's how the immune system reacts. As coronavirus cases continue to spread, doctors are learning more about COVID-19 and its symptoms. So far, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has officially listed nine symptoms of the illness caused by the new coronavirus: cough, shortness ...
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People Mount Strong Immune Responses to Coronavirus, Boding Well for a Vaccine By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, May 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As the drive towards a vaccine against the new coronavirus accelerates, there's some good news: People with COVID-19 have robust immune responses against the virus, ...
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'I'm Lucky': Cancer Surgery in Midst of Coronavirus Pandemic (Reuters) - As Los Angeles begins to emerge from more than two months of coronavirus lockdown, 40-year-old Marisa Sullivan will have surgery this week to remove a malignant tumor from her left breast. Sullivan's surgery is set for Monday at Cedars-Sinai ...
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America's Prisons, Jails Are Breeding Grounds for COVID-19 By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, May 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Jails and prisons are hotbeds for the spread of COVID-19, endangering both the inmates held within as well as the wider community, public health experts warn.
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Moderna's coronavirus vaccine shows encouraging early results in human safety trial Moderna, the Massachusetts biotechnology company behind a leading effort to create a coronavirus vaccine, announced promising early results from its first human safety tests Monday. The company plans to launch a large clinical trial in July aimed at ...
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COVID-19 Daily: Debate Over Vitamin D, Dogs Sniff Out COVID Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the coronavirus stories Medscape's editors around the globe think you need to know about today.
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AHA News: Is High Blood Pressure Inevitable? MONDAY, May 18, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Almost every adult will face this health problem as they get older. But knowing how blood pressure might change over a lifetime can give people a better appreciation of why it's important to keep it ...
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Ukraine's doctors overburdened by coronavirus in desperate fight against illness Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A breathing machine at a Ukrainian hospital breaks down, leaving a coronavirus patient gasping helplessly for air. Dr. Olha Kobevko rushes from room to room to see ...
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Coronavirus: Global push for inquiry into Covid-19 response Global health leaders are set to call for a review into the international response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Envoys from 194 of the World Health Organization's member states will meet virtually on Monday and Tuesday for the 73rd assembly of the UN body.
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Special Report: 'Death Sentence' - the hidden coronavirus toll in US jails and prisons (Reuters) - When COVID-19 began tearing through Detroit's county jail system in March, authorities had no diagnostic tests to gauge its spread. But the toll became clear as deaths mounted. First, one of the sheriff's jail commanders died; then, a deputy in a ...
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Coronavirus News: After offering COVID tests to all, LA still has thousands of unused kits LOS ANGELES -- With ample coronavirus tests and not enough sick people seeking them, the mayor of Los Angeles recently did something on a scale no other major U.S. city had done - allow anyone with or without symptoms to be tested as often as they ...
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From Headaches to 'COVID Toes,' Coronavirus Symptoms Are a Bizarre Mix The new coronavirus that has infected millions of people around the globe can wreak havoc far beyond the lungs. Some of the symptoms of the disease it causes, COVID-19, are predictable enough: cough, fever, chills, headache. But the pathogen's effects by ...
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Coronavirus local updates: USC to cancel fall break, transition to remote learning after Thanksgiving CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More than 4.6 million people worldwide -- including at least 1.4 million people in the United States – have been infected with the new coronavirus, and the number of deaths from the outbreak continues to rise. Officials are attempting to ...
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Looking at the social side of COVID-19 through HIV research While the COVID-19 pandemic is often described as unprecedented, there is a recent viral epidemic that researchers in UConn's Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention and Policy (InCHIP) say can offer lessons about social and behavioral ...
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Phone calls to older adults stuck at home during coronavirus offer something to look forward to DALLAS — For 81-year-old Dell Kaplan, the offer to get calls from a stranger just to chat while staying home during the coronavirus pandemic was immediately appealing. "It gets pretty lonely here by yourself," said Kaplan, a suburban Dallas resident who has ...
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Coronavirus vaccine might be available this year, but don't 'bank on it,' Johns Hopkins expert says Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A Johns Hopkins University health expert on Sunday said a vaccine for the novel coronavirus may arrive by the end of year, but don't "bank on it." Dr. Tom Inglesby ...
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Even One High-Fat Meal May Dull Your Mind By Rich Holmes HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, May 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Ordering a cheeseburger and fries might literally be a dumb move, new research suggests. A recent, small study from Ohio State University indicates eating a single meal ...
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Coronavirus: Half a million Britons taking online suicide prevention course amid lockdown More than half a million Britons have logged on to an online suicide prevention course in the past three weeks, according to the charity behind the scheme. Amid the coronavirus lockdown, the Zero Suicide Alliance claims 503,000 users completed the module ...
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Ukraine's overburdened doctors in desperate virus fight CHERNIVTSI, Ukraine — A breathing machine at a Ukrainian hospital breaks down, leaving a coronavirus patient gasping helplessly for air. Dr. Olha Kobevko rushes from room to room to see if there is an electrician among her other patients who can fix it.
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Antibody neutralizes SARS and COVID-19 coronaviruses An antibody first identified in a blood sample from a patient who recovered from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003 inhibits related coronaviruses, including the cause of COVID-19. The antibody, called S309, is now on a fast-track development and ...
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Coronavirus stress is bringing bad dreams. Here's why, and how to cope Coronavirus, just let me sleep, please! Ute Grabowsky/Photothek via Getty Images. For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. My first coronavirus dream took me to Seattle's Sea-Tac airport. Not only ...
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Idaho, Maine among states with most undertesting for COVID-19: Here's what it looks like More than 1.3 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus since the first case was confirmed in the U.S. on Jan. 21, 2020. From President Donald Trump down to state and local leaders, officials have compared the fight against COVID-19 to a ...
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Good News for COVID-19 Vaccine: Immune System Shows Robust Response to SARS-CoV-2 Information about immunity to SARS-CoV-2, both in the context of COVID-19 disease pathogenesis and in the context of how to develop a good vaccine, remains limited. But developing a vaccine and predicting how the coronavirus pandemic will unfold until ...
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Drugmakers tout COVID-19 vaccines to refurbish their public image Small bottles labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe are seen in this illustration taken taken April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration. Dado Ruvic. Facebook · Twitter · WhatsApp · SMS · Email; Print; Save. Johnson ...
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UK adds loss of smell and taste to COVID-19 symptom list LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom has added the loss of smell and taste to its official list of COVID-19 symptoms including fever and new continuous cough - a step that it hopes could help pick up about 2 percent more cases of novel coronavirus.
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COVID-19 Will Delay 28 Million Elective Surgeries Worldwide: Study MONDAY, May 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The coronavirus pandemic could scuttle more than 28 million elective surgeries across the globe this year, according to a new study. British researchers gathered information from surgeons at 359 hospitals in 71 ...
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UK govt boosts vaccine funding as daily virus deaths fall Britain on Sunday reported 170 more coronavirus deaths—its lowest number since late March, when lockdown restrictions were introduced, although the figures from Northern Ireland were not included. Prime Minister Boris Johnson meanwhile acknowledged ...
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Study Seeks To Determine If Sewers Can Predict Virus Outbreaks DETROIT, MI — Can the outbreaks of viruses such as the new coronavirus be predicted by first being detected in Michigan's sewers? A research project that began in November 2017 but has since been altered in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is ...
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Just A Chat: Calls Offered For Older Adults Staying Home The program being offered by the city of Plano is among those that have popped up across the U.S. during the pandemic. By Associated Press, News Partner. May 18, 2020 11:13 am CT. Reply. 0. Dell Kaplan, 81, talks on her phone if front of her home in ...
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Accurate mapping of human travel patterns with global smartphone data Understanding people's short- and long-distance travel patterns can inform economic development, urban planning, and responses to natural disasters, wars and conflicts, disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. A new global mapping ...
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CDC Confirms Link of Inflammatory Syndrome in Children to COVID-19; 145 Potential Cases in NYC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the link between a rare, potentially deadly syndrome in children with COVID-19, a belief already held by New York physicians, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. New York ...
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How to make homemade facial masks, peels, scrubs Homemade facial masks and facial scrubs will make you feel like you're at the spa, even when you're at home. Woman putting facial mask in the bathroom. Try these homemade masks with ingredients found in your kitchen.Getty Images ...
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Asthma is associated with longer time on ventilators for younger COVID-19 patients New data suggests that asthma is associated with longer time on ventilators for hospitalized younger patients with COVID-19. Patients with COVID-19 between the ages of 20 and 59 years old who also had asthma needed a ventilator to assist with breathing ...
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Florida man who questioned coronavirus crisis issues warning after contracting virus Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A Florida man who said he initially thought the coronavirus pandemic was "a fake crisis" has issued a stark warning for others and both he and his wife contracted the ...
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Pulmonary Rehab Can Help People With COPD, So Why Do So Few Get It? By Rasna Kaur Neelam HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, May 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Roughly 16 million Americans have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but only a fraction have access to a lifesaving treatment called pulmonary ...
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Coronavirus pandemic in the US The numbers: More than 4.7 million cases of Covid-19 have been recorded worldwide, including at least 315,000 deaths. In the US: Nearly 1.5 million cases have been reported and the death toll is approaching 90,000. Expert warning: Without better planning ...
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Scientists working on vaccine says Government is creating 'false expectations' A scientist working on a possible COVID-19 vaccine says that the government is creating "false expectations" after touting that 30 million doses could be made for Britain by September. Ministers announced the deal between a team at Oxford University and ...
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China's Xi pledges $2B to global coronavirus fight Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $2 billion Monday to support global efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Xi pledged financial support, especially to aid developing countries, during a video speech to the World Health Assembly, Reuters reports.
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Coronavirus: Contact tracing technology trialled at three health boards A contact tracing system to suppress coronavirus is to be trialled in three health boards from Monday, the Scottish government has said. The software will be tested in NHS Fife, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Highland. Earlier this month, the government said ...
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Coronavirus: How we decide the risks we're willing to take to venture out As an infectious disease expert, Dr. George Rutherford knows all about the horrors of COVID-19. But there's one risk that the UC San Francisco professor, wearing a mask, is willing to take: hugging his 2-year-old granddaughter. For two months, we've been ...
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Is it safe to send your child to day care during COVID-19 pandemic? Experts weigh in With parts of the U.S. reopening, parents are grappling with what to do when they inevitably go back to work. Is it safe for them to send their children to day care as the coronavirus continues to spread? It's an important consideration, experts say — and a ...
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AstraZeneca aims for 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine by September AstraZeneca Plc will make as many as 30 million doses of coronavirus vaccine available to the U.K. by September and has committed to delivering 100 million doses this year. The U.K. will be the first country to get access to the vaccine should it be successful ...
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Women consuming sugary drinks daily have a 19 percent greater chance of developing heart disease The chances of developing cardiovascular disease are 19 percent greater for women who consume one or more sugary drinks a day than for those who rarely or never consume these drinks, according to new research published in the Journal of the American ...
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Analysis: Privacy worries could derail virus tracking plans BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Worries about the breach of individual privacy rights could undermine Louisiana's ability to quickly pinpoint those who have encountered someone infected with COVID-19, a tracking plan that public health experts say is critical to ...
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The great pandemic of 1918 wears on in region Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on the Spanish influenza outbreak of 1918 and its spread across Western Pennsylvania. As the battle against the Spanish Flu wore on in October 1918, a somber new reality descended upon Washington.
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