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Why some people who haven't had Covid-19 might already have some immunity (CNN) The immune systems of some people who have not been exposed to the novel coronavirus could have some familiarity with the pathogen -- possibly helping to reduce the severity of illness if that person does get Covid-19, a new study suggests.
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COVID-19 Data Dives: Why Arguments Against SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol Transmission Don't Hold Water Medscape asked top experts to weigh in on the most pressing scientific questions about COVID-19. Check back frequently for more COVID-19 Data Dives, and visit Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center for complete coverage. Jose-Luis Jimenez, PhD.
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Operation Warp Speed leader says he expects coronavirus vaccine to be highly effective, 'in the 90%' range (CNN) The head of the government's effort to develop a vaccine against Covid-19 says he expects the vaccine to have efficacy rates "in the 90%" range -- but that there might not be enough vaccine available for all Americans until the end of next year. "I think it ...
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COVID-19: Vaccines and Better Treatments 'On the Horizon' With numerous vaccines against COVID-19 currently in clinical trials, the first successes should be seen around the end of this year, although scaling them up to national and global production will be a challenge, argue leading experts. Moreover, while ...
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We thought COVID-19 was just a respiratory virus—we were wrong Credit: Anna and Elena Balbusso. In late January, when hospitals in the United States confirmed the presence of the novel coronavirus, health workers knew to watch for precisely three symptoms: fever, cough, and shortness of breath. But as the number of ...
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Pandemic at the disco: the COVID outbreak that began in a French bar QUIBERON, France (Reuters) - The Hacienda bar in this French seaside resort was heaving with Saturday night revellers: a crowd of people, beer glasses and smartphones in hand, moving to the sounds of pop and hip-hop music as red and blue strobe lights ...
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How does SARS-CoV-2 cause COVID-19? Viruses enter cells and initiate infection by binding to their cognate cell surface receptors. The expression and distribution of viral entry receptors therefore regulates their tropism, determining the tissues that are infected and thus disease pathogenesis. Severe ...
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Fears grow that releasing thousands of California prisoners will spread COVID-19 into communities Missteps by corrections officials handling releases from state prisons are fueling fears in some California counties that thousands of inmates eligible for early release will spread the coronavirus in their communities. Across the state, county probation officials ...
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Misinformation on coronavirus is proving highly contagious PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As the world races to find a vaccine and a treatment for COVID-19, there is seemingly no antidote in sight for the burgeoning outbreak of coronavirus conspiracy theories, hoaxes, anti-mask myths and sham cures. The phenomenon ...
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The Three Key Hurdles for a Coronavirus Vaccine to Clear Vaccines have transformed the world, saving hundreds of millions of lives. They are also by far our best hope to stop the Covid-19 pandemic. Our other choices for stopping the disease are staying apart, which hammers our economy and society, or building ...
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UK COVID-19 Update: Self-isolation Period Extended from 7 to 10 Days These are the UK coronavirus stories you need to know about today. Changes to Self-isolation. The self-isolation period for people who test positive for COVID-19, or show symptoms, has been extended from 7 to 10 days across the UK. The change was ...
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Ventilation systems can change spread of potential viral particles indoors: Study A new study at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering showed ventilation systems can change the spread of aerosolized and potentially virus-containing particles in common indoor areas. The study looked at results in an elevator, ...
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Trump planning for US rollout of coronavirus vaccine falling short, officials warn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As scientists and pharmaceutical companies work at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, public health officials and senior U.S. lawmakers are sounding alarms about the Trump administration's lack of ...
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Coronavirus deaths among LA County food processing workers bring dire plea from health officials With coronavirus deaths now surpassing 9,000 across California, health officials in Los Angeles County are investigating a deadly outbreak at a food processing plant in Commerce and issued another urgent plea for businesses and employees to report ...
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Fauci Optimistic About COVID-19 Vaccines, Though Immunity Unknowns Complicate Development Teams are starting to test vaccines using messenger RNA or chimpanzee cold viruses to inoculate humans. Will their benefits last? By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News on July 31, 2020. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Reddit. Share on LinkedIn.
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Covid-19 Tests Are in Short Supply. Should You Still Get One? First, health officials said you should not get tested for the coronavirus unless you had symptoms. Then the message shifted: Mass testing was essential to trace and contain the pandemic. Now there is more confusion as public health officials warn of ...
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New Study Sheds Doubt on Notion Kids Aren't COVID-19 Spreaders By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Children with COVID-19 carry as much or more coronavirus in their nose as adults, suggesting that they could pose a serious infection risk if schools and ...
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Double Lung Transplants Save Lives of Sickest COVID Patients By Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Two coronavirus patients who became so sick that double lung transplants were their only chance for survival are now recovering from their harrowing ...
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COVID patient didn't recognize body after double transplant CHICAGO — A Chicago woman who last month became the nation's first COVID-19 patient to undergo a double lung transplant said Thursday that she woke up days later, unaware about the surgery and unable to "recognize my body." Support our journalism ...
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The Risk That Students Could Arrive at School With the Coronavirus As schools grapple with how to reopen, new estimates show that large parts of the country would likely see infected students if classrooms opened now. Estimated infected people arriving in the first week. 1. 2. 3. 5. 10+. + -. Pod of 10. School of 100. School of ...
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New Study Sheds Doubt on Notion Kids Aren't COVID-19 Spreaders By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Children with COVID-19 carry as much or more coronavirus in their nose as adults, suggesting that they could pose a serious infection risk if schools and day care ...
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A roller coaster fanatic was too overweight to ride his dream 'giga coaster.' It motivated him to lose 195 pounds. Five years ago, roller coaster enthusiast Jared Ream was excited to take another ride on his all-time favorite coaster — the 310-foot Millennium Force at Ohio's Cedar Point amusement park — when he received some bad news. Support our journalism.
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'Sponge on a string' test to transform esophageal cancer diagnosis A "sponge on a string" pill test can identify ten times more people with Barrett's esophagus than the usual GP route, according to a new study funded by Cancer Research UK and published in The Lancet today. The test, which can be carried out by a nurse in ...
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American Cancer Society now recommends cervical cancer screening start at 25, not 21 (CNN) Individuals with a cervix are now recommended to start cervical cancers screening at 25 and continue through age 65, with the primary human papillomavirus (HPV) testing every five years as the preferred method of testing, according to a new ...
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Study Reveals How Coronavirus Travels Indoors By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A new study explains how the coronavirus hitches a ride on droplets released when you cough, sneeze, talk or speak, and travels around a room. The University of ...
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2nd US virus surge hits plateau, but few experts celebrate While deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. are mounting rapidly, public health experts are seeing a flicker of good news: The second surge of confirmed cases appears to be leveling off. Scientists aren't celebrating by any means, warning that the trend is ...
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WHO warns partying youngsters not to 'let down guard' on COVID-19 GENEVA (Reuters) - Young people letting down their guard to enjoy the summer holidays are partly driving a spike in new COVID-19 cases in some countries, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on the ...
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Coronavirus: Scots warned to avoid English Covid hotspots The Scottish government has warned people not to visit areas of England affected by new local lockdown rules. It said travel between Scotland and Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire should only be undertaken if "absolutely ...
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US COVID-19 outbreak picks up in Midwest as summer travel spreads virus WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coronavirus infections appear to be picking up in the U.S. Midwest, the coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force said on Thursday, as Ohio reported a record day of cases and Wisconsin's governor ...
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Diversity In Coronavirus Vaccine Trials Demanded From Drug Companies ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Black and Latinx people are more likely to get sick and die from COVID-19. That's also true of older people and those with underlying health conditions. These groups are generally among the least likely to be included in vaccine trials, ...
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ACS Calls for HPV Testing Alone for Cervical Cancer Screening Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing every 5 years should be used to screen patients ages 25 to 65 for cervical cancer, according to updated guidelines released by the American Cancer Society (ACS). The simplified guidelines state that women with a cervix ...
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West Nile Virus Confirmed In Arlington Mosquitoes ARLINGTON, MA — The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Thursday that West Nile Virus has been detected in mosquitoes collected in Arlington. The town had no positive samples in 2019, when 8,295 mosquito samples were tested ...
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Medicare coverage for Alzheimer's brain scans in question A big study to help Medicare officials decide whether to start covering brain scans to check for Alzheimer's disease missed its goals for curbing healthcare costs, calling into question whether the pricey tests are worth it. The results announced Thursday are ...
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Case Report: Watch for MIS During COVID-19 Recovery Autopsy findings in a young COVID-19 patient who seemed to be recovering, then rapidly deteriorated and died, showed vasculitis of the small vessels of the heart, apparently reflecting a variant of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS). The report ...
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Coronavirus: One death and 85 new Covid-19 cases in Ireland The Irish health authorities have confirmed one additional coronavirus-related death and 85 new cases of Covid-19 in its latest daily figures. The number of newly diagnosed infections in the Republic of Ireland is significantly higher than it has been for several ...
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California nears 9000 coronavirus-related deaths after 2 days of record-setting fatalities California is approaching another coronavirus milestone: 9,000 deaths after a major surge in infections. The rising death toll comes as officials are trying to slow outbreaks across the state that followed the reopening of the economy in late May and early June.
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AHA News: Sustained High Blood Pressure May Damage Brain Vessels FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Having high blood pressure for long periods may increase the chance of small vessel damage in the brain, which has been linked to dementia and stroke, according to a new study. Scientists have ...
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Rare illness spread by ticks diagnosed in UK People are being urged to be on alert for tick bites, following the diagnosis for the first time in England of a rare illness. Public Health England (PHE) says the risk to the public is "very low", but it's important to be "tick aware" when enjoying green spaces this ...
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Contact Tracing Is Failing in Many States. Here's Why. In Arizona's most populated region, the coronavirus is so ubiquitous that contact tracers have been unable to reach a fraction of those infected. In Austin, Tex., the story is much the same. Just as it is in North Carolina, where the state's health secretary recently ...
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Study Reveals How Coronavirus Travels Indoors FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A new study explains how the coronavirus hitches a ride on droplets released when you cough, sneeze, talk or speak, and travels around a room. The University of Minnesota scientists hope their work will help ...
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Lifestyle, Policy Changes Could Make Big Dent in Dementia Burden About 40% of dementia cases may be prevented or delayed by modifying 12 risk factors, researchers reported at the 2020 virtual Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC). These 12 factors include three new items -- excessive alcohol intake ...
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Vaccine Candidate Delivers Protection In A Single Shot (In Monkeys) Nobody is eager to be stuck by a needle twice, so naturally many would view a COVID-19 vaccine that provides disease protection after a single injection as a good thing. Two new studies released today suggest that might be possible. Both studies involved ...
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Iceland Covid-hit depot workers 'afraid to go back' A total of 45 people have tested positive for coronavirus at the Iceland supermarket distribution centre in Swindon. The borough council confirmed the cases at the site, run by XPO Logistics, and expect the number to rise. The Unite Union says some ...
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Under 50 and Overweight? Your Odds for Dementia Later May Rise By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Need fresh motivation to lose some weight? New research suggests that young adults who are overweight or obese face a higher risk for dementia in their ...
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Researchers identify lab profiles that differentiate MIS-C from COVID-19 in children In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2 virus seemed only rarely to have serious complications in children. However, by April 2020, pediatricians had begun recognizing a syndrome in children who tested positive for COVID-19 involving ...
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UK Scientists to Immunize Hundreds With Coronavirus Vaccine Leon McFarlane a research technician handles a blood sample from a volunteer in the laboratory at Imperial College in London, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Imperial College is working on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Scientists at Imperial College ...
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Three weeks and $14 million later, Miami-Dade's contact tracing still lags behind cases Three weeks after committing $14 million for the Department of Health to boost the number of contact tracers for COVID-19 in Miami-Dade, the state has added 50 disease investigators to 300 already working to trace new infections in Florida's hardest hit ...
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America's 2nd coronavirus surge appears to be leveling off, but deaths are mounting rapidly We have lifted the paywall on this story. To support essential reporting, please consider becoming a subscriber. Pedestrians wear masks as they walk in front of a sign reminding the public to take steps to stop the spread of coronavirus on July 23, 2020, ...
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New York Orthodox Jews help South Florida COVID-19 patients with plasma donations With South Florida hospitals in need of convalescent plasma units due to the surge of COVID-19 cases, a New York-based Jewish group stepped up to help with donations. The COVID Plasma Initiative, which consists of thousands of Orthodox Jews who have ...
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Experts call for US to reset COVID-19 response as economy worsens More than 1,000 health professionals have now signed an open letter calling for the United States to hit reset in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The reset would essentially mean another shutdown in hot spot states, with all non-essential businesses ...
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