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	health Daily update ⋅ July 10, 2020
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	CNN Covid-19 symptoms: What we know now and what to do CNN (CNN) It may feel like years, but the world has only been battling the deadly novel coronavirus for months. As scientists feverishly work around the clock to unravel the mysteries of this deadly invader, they have gained interesting insights into the virus and the ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Coronavirus pandemic: Updates from around the world CNN The top infectious disease expert in the US says some states have opened too quickly, allowing the coronavirus pandemic to come roaring back. The US saw another highest daily number of coronavirus cases Thursday. At least two dozen US states have ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN New WHO report says airborne coronavirus transmission 'cannot be ruled out' in outbreaks in some indoor settings CNN (CNN) The World Health Organization on Thursday released a new scientific report detailing how the coronavirus can pass from one person to the next -- including through the air during certain medical procedures, and possibly through the air in crowded ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Injection Beats Pill for Long-Lasting HIV Prevention Medscape Injections of cabotegravir (ViiV Healthcare) given every other month are more effective in blocking HIV transmission than the once-a-day combination of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine (Truvada, Gilead Science), new data from the HPTN 083 ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN What we know about coronavirus risks to school age children CNN (CNN) As coronavirus cases spike nationwide, most parents are wondering whether it's safe to send their children back to school. But with most of the research and testing geared toward adults, the answer is complicated. President Donald Trump has ramped ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Study results suggest pregnant women may be able to transmit coronavirus to their babies Washington Post Researchers found the coronavirus and antibodies against it in the umbilical cord blood, breast milk, placentas and vaginas of some pregnant infected women, another suggestion that the virus can be passed to fetuses and newborns, according to results of a ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Atlantic COVID-19 Cases Are Rising, So Why Are Deaths Flatlining? The Atlantic For the past few weeks, I have been obsessed with a mystery emerging in the national COVID-19 data. Cases have soared to terrifying levels since June. Yesterday, the U.S. had 62,000 confirmed cases, an all-time high—and about five times more than the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine Blood factors transfer beneficial effects of exercise on neurogenesis and cognition to the aged brain Science Magazine Exercise has a broad range of beneficial healthful effects. Horowitz et al. tested whether the beneficial effects of exercise on neurogenesis in the brain and improved cognition in aged mice could be transferred in plasma (blood without its cellular components) ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Jeremy Hunt Says the Govt Thought COVID Would Be Unstoppable Medscape The Government may have wasted precious time at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic with an assumption that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was unstoppable, the former Health Secretary has said. Jeremy Hunt said: "I was very puzzled by the fact that all the public ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Coronavirus may be creating better bosses, who talk less and listen more Los Angeles Times Back in the pre-COVID-19 days, Mitchell Spearman didn't talk to his staff much about their feelings. As senior director of principal gifts for the University of Texas at Austin, he helped set goals for his team of fundraisers, assisted them in meeting those goals ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Coronavirus hijacks cells, forces them to grow tentacles, then invades others Livescience.com Cells infected with the new coronavirus grow stringy, tentacle-like arms that allow the virus to invade other cells, according to a new study. The novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, has now infected more than 12.2 million people worldwide and killed ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS News California, Florida and Texas report highest daily coronavirus death tolls CBS News The coronavirus crisis nationwide is not only deepening, it is growing more deadly. The country's three biggest states — California, Florida and Texas — are reporting their largest single-day death tolls since the pandemic began. There are now 41 states that ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Terrifying Delirium Can Strike Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients HealthDay By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Intense breathing problems may be the most widely reported feature of COVID-19, but new research warns that coronavirus can also take aim at the brain. Infection can trigger ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay 'Broken Heart Syndrome' Has Risen During Pandemic: Study HealthDay By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors at one Ohio hospital system have discovered yet another possible consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: More cases of "broken heart syndrome." The condition ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN A Texas mom gave birth to triplets right after she beat Covid-19 CNN (CNN) Maggie Sillero was 28 weeks pregnant with triplets when she got the terrifying news that she had Covid-19. She wasn't sick on May 8 when she went to The Woman's Hospital of Texas in Houston -- and never showed any coronavirus symptoms. Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD 'Broken Heart Syndrome' Has Risen During Pandemic WebMD THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors at one Ohio hospital system have discovered yet another possible consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: More cases of "broken heart syndrome." The condition -- which doctors call stress ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR At Least 82 Coronavirus Cases Linked To Missouri Sleepaway Camp NPR A COVID-19 outbreak has forced a Christian sleepaway camp in Missouri to shut down after dozens of staff, campers and counselors tested positive. The Kanakuk K-2 camp in Lampe, just north of the Arkansas border, closed after 41 campers, counselors and ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Dementia patients 'deteriorating' without family visits BBC News Relatives of care home residents with dementia should be treated as key workers, leading charities say. In a letter to the health secretary, they write that the care given by family members is "essential" to residents' mental and physical health. They argue the ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New Yorker How Two Waves of Coronavirus Cases Swept Through the Texas Panhandle The New Yorker When Boutsady Muongkhot went to get tested for COVID-19, he didn't feel sick. His daughter had told him to do it. Muongkhot, who is seventy-one, is the youngest of ten children born in a farming village in Laos, and one of two brothers who came to the ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report 'Broken Heart Syndrome' Has Risen During Pandemic: Study U.S. News & World Report By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors at one Ohio hospital system have discovered yet another possible consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: More cases of "broken heart syndrome.". Flag as irrelevant
	NPR An Enzyme That Increases With Exercise Can Improve Memory In Mice, And Maybe People NPR Scientists say they've identified an enzyme that could help explain how exercise can slow or even reverse some signs of aging in the brain. "Exercise in a bottle" isn't around the corner, but it's not out of the question, either. The idea builds on an observation a ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Airborne transmission of coronavirus in restaurants, gyms and other closed spaces can't be ruled out, WHO says CNBC The WHO previously acknowledged that the virus may become airborne in certain environments, such as during "medical procedures that generate aerosols." The new guidance recognizes some research that suggests the virus may be able to spread through ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Pathologist found blood clots in 'almost every organ' during autopsies on Covid-19 patients CNN (CNN) Autopsies on people who died of the coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body -- and one of the most remarkable findings concerned blood clotting, a pathologist says. Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science News A COVID-19 vaccine may come soon. Will the blistering pace backfire? Science News In January, vaccine researchers lined up on the starting blocks, waiting to hear a pistol. That shot came on January 10, when scientists in China announced the complete genetic makeup of the novel coronavirus. With that information in hand, the headlong ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Airborne coronavirus transmission raises new questions and worries Medical Xpress Half a year into the pandemic, it's well-accepted that coronavirus can be spread when an infected person expels respiratory droplets by coughing or sneezing. But can the virus be transmitted in microscopically small droplets that are released into the air by ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR WHO: Aerosolized Particles Unlikely To Be Significant Source Of COVID-19 Transmission NPR The World Health Organization has issued a new scientific brief that summarizes what's known about the different ways the coronavirus can transmit. The 10-page brief, posted Thursday, considers all the ways researchers think the coronavirus may be able to ... Flag as irrelevant
	EurekAlert Immunicom and Sheba Medical Center initiate trial for new breakthrough oncology treatment EurekAlert SAN DIEGO and TEL AVIV - July 9, 2020 - Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer and Immunicom, Inc. are initiating a ground-breaking clinical trial to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the Immunicom LW-02 plasma filtration device as a monotherapy and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Becker's Hospital Review 'A lesson in agility': How providers in US hot spots are preparing for sharp increase in COVID-19 cases Becker's Hospital Review Monitoring personal protective equipment supply, bed capacity and data are among the steps U.S. hospitals and health systems are taking to prepare for a potential second wave of the coronavirus. Healthcare leaders said they have also learned lessons from ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Global wildlife surveillance could provide early warning for next pandemic Medical Xpress The virus that causes COVID-19 probably originated in wild bats that live in caves around Wuhan, China, and may have been passed to a second animal species before infecting people, according to the World Health Organization. Many of the most ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline COVID-19 Linked to Major Neurological Conditions Including Stroke, Brain Swelling Healthline A rare and sometimes fatal inflammatory neurological condition appears to be increasing in prevalence due to the pandemic, according to a new study by British scientists. Researchers found a spike in adults with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis ... Flag as irrelevant
	Financial Express New WHO Guidance Calls for More Evidence on Airborne Transmission The New York Times (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Thursday released new guidelines on the transmission of the novel coronavirus that acknowledge some reports of airborne transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19, but stopped short of confirming that the ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Oregon woman has battled coronavirus symptoms since March CNN (CNN) Chelsea Alionar hoped she'd be better by now. The 37-year-old resident of Keizer, Oregon, has battled the symptoms of the coronavirus for more than four months. She's had to put her life on hold, but only feels a little bit better. "I have really not left my ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Where do new viruses like the coronavirus come from? Medical Xpress Factors smaller than a cell and as large as the planet are at play when a virus leaps from an animal to a human. The question of how that happened with SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, is crucial for several reasons, said best-selling author ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Better Evidence that Fruits, Veggies, Whole Grains Lower Diabetes Risk MedPage Today Two new studies in The BMJ provided more objective and detailed evidence that consuming fruits, vegetables, and whole grains lowers risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The first study looked at two biomarkers of fruit consumption, vitamin C and ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Ribble Valley deputy mayor says media 'exaggerates' threat BBC News A deputy mayor who claimed the dangers of coronavirus are being exaggerated has been criticised for making "totally inappropriate" comments. While it was "absolutely terrible" people had died, James Rogerson said the risks were overplayed by the media. Flag as irrelevant
	Bloomberg We're Not Prepared to Track Disease Outbreaks in America's Poorest ZIP Codes Bloomberg A new study suggests a lack of data for detecting burgeoning flu outbreaks is a "critical blind spot" in the highest poverty neighborhoods. By. Linda Poon. July 9, 2020, 2:17 PM PDT. We're Not Prepared to Track Disease Outbreaks in America's Poorest ZIP ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post WHO: Indoor airborne spread of coronavirus possible Washington Post LONDON — The World Health Organization is acknowledging the possibility that COVID-19 might be spread in the air under certain conditions — after more than 200 scientists urged the agency to do so. In an open letter published this week in a journal, two ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Most Survivors of Severe COVID-19 Report Symptoms Many Weeks After 'Recovery' HealthDay By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Even a month after hospital discharge and "recovery," a majority of patients who had survived severe COVID-19 were still dealing with fatigue, shortness of breath and other ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Only 57 percent of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine Medical Xpress Despite widespread agreement among experts that having a prophylactic COVID-19 vaccine will be critical to the nation's ability to safely return to some form of normalcy, only 57% of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if it were available today ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today How Should HIV Vaccine Trials Be Run in the PrEP Era? MedPage Today As modalities to prevent HIV infection continue to expand, from oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to injectable formulations, trials for HIV vaccines must take these into account and ensure that ethical principles are being followed, an expert panel said. Flag as irrelevant
	Baltimore Sun 68% have antibodies in this clinic. Can the neighborhood beat a next wave? Baltimore Sun At a clinic in Corona, a working-class neighborhood in Queens, more than 68% of people tested positive for antibodies to the new coronavirus. At another clinic in Jackson Heights, Queens, that number was 56%. But at a clinic in Cobble Hill, a mostly white ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Long tail of coronavirus can prolong suffering for months Medical Xpress They call themselves "long-haulers", "long-tailers", or simply survivors. Some have been sick almost as long as the new coronavirus is known to have existed. Six months after the virus began to scorch its way across the planet, it is becoming clear that ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS Denver Coronvirus In Colorado: Young Adults Seeing Higher Rate Of Infection CBS Denver DENVER (CBS4) — As Colorado's COVID-19 cases increase, trends show that teens and young adults see higher rates of infections. Data released by the state on Wednesday, show that last week, nearly half of the new cases were people who were 20 to 40 ... Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP US prison inmates among those hit hard with COVID-19 CIDRAP COVID-19 cases in US federal and state prisons were 5.5 times higher—and death rates three times higher—than in the general population from Mar 31 to Jun 6, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA. Researchers from Johns Hopkins ... Flag as irrelevant
	PEOPLE.com Coronavirus Could Lead to Brain Damage in Infected Patients, Study Says PEOPLE.com Researchers say COVID-19 has been linked to neurological complications in some patients, including fatal brain inflammation, stroke and nerve damage. By Claudia Harmata. July 09, 2020 04:16 PM. Advertisement. FB Tweet More. Pinterest Email Send Text ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Amid Surge, Hospitals Hesitate to Cancel Nonemergency Surgeries Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Three months ago, the nation watched as COVID-19 patients overwhelmed New York City's intensive care units, forcing some of its hospitals to convert ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times West Nile Virus cases confirmed in mosquitoes, bird samples found in Orange County Los Angeles Times Three mosquito samples collected in Anaheim, Cypress and Garden Grove on Wednesday tested positive for West Nile Virus, accounting for the first positive samples in Orange County this year, according to the county's Mosquito and Vector Control District. Flag as irrelevant
	Baltimore Sun Virus-tracing apps are rife with problems. Governments are rushing to fix them. Baltimore Sun In April, Norway released a smartphone app, Smittestopp or "stop infection," that records users who come into close contact for more than 15 minutes and sends alerts if they have been exposed to the coronavirus. "We can all help stop the spread of infection ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine Unnecessary hesitancy on human vaccine tests—Response Science Magazine Eyal contends that the expected social value of controlled human infection studies (CHIs) conducted in an effort to find vaccines and treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will be high enough to justify the risks to participants. We are concerned ... Flag as irrelevant
	WTOP Prince George's County leaders tout COVID-19 progress, urge continued caution WTOP The county executive and health officer of Prince George's County, Maryland, said that the main metrics for COVID-19 continue to look good, but they also urged residents to continue with safety measures such as mask wearing and social distancing. Flag as irrelevant

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