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	health Daily update ⋅ August 14, 2020
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	Washington Post Britain says it overcounted coronavirus death toll by 5377 Washington Post LONDON — England's coronavirus death toll is being revised downward by more than 5,000 fatalities after experts belatedly concluded they were probably overcounting deaths. This recently discovered "statistical anomaly" means that on Wednesday Britain's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Dying Young: The Health Care Workers in Their 20s Killed by COVID-19 Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Siblings Jasmine and Josh Obra both tested positive for COVID-19 on the same day. Only one of them survived. Jasmine Obra believed that if it wasn't ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN CDC study sheds new light on mental health crisis linked to coronavirus pandemic CNN (CNN) The Covid-19 crisis has brought with it a mental health crisis in the United States, and new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show just how broad the pandemic's impact on mental health might be. A new CDC survey found ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Doctors and Nurses Sick With COVID Feel Pressured to Get Back to Work Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The first call in early April was from the testing center, informing the nurse she was positive for COVID-19 and should quarantine for two weeks. Flag as irrelevant
	News18 Experts Warn Spain Is Losing the 2nd Round in Virus Fight The New York Times BARCELONA, Spain — Not two months after battling back the coronavirus, Spain's hospitals are beginning to see patients struggling to breathe returning to their wards. The deployment of a military emergency brigade to set up a field hospital in Zaragoza this ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Don't Like What You See on Zoom? Get a Face-Lift and Join the Crowd. The New York Times A growing number of people, stuck at home and tired of staring at their own haggard faces on Zoom, are finding a fix: face and eye lifts, chin and tummy tucks and more. At a time when many medical fields are reeling from lockdowns when lucrative electives ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD COVID-19 Supply Crunch Means More Testing Delays WebMD Aug. 13, 2020 -- The lack of supplies for doing enough COVID-19 diagnostic testing within a useful turnaround time will likely last and will continue to hamper the nation's response to the pandemic, public health experts and health care professionals say. Flag as irrelevant
	NPR CDC Director Warns This Fall Could Be The Worst Ever For Public Health NPR The U.S. now has more than 5 million cases and 166,700 deaths from the coronavirus. And with flu season approaching, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Wednesday that things could get a lot more grim. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Deaths during the coronavirus surge in New York City recall the peak of the 1918 flu pandemic CNN (CNN) A new study finds that deaths in New York City in the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic were comparable to deaths in the city at the peak of what's considered the deadliest pandemic to date -- the flu pandemic of 1918. Fed study: 1918 flu deaths ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Coronavirus Deaths in Nursing Homes Climbing Again HealthDay FRIDAY, Aug. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) The novel coronavirus is surging once more in U.S. nursing homes, where it killed tens of thousands at the start of the pandemic. Federal data cited by two long-term care associations this week illustrated the ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times You Probably Won't Catch the Coronavirus From Frozen Food The New York Times Amid a flurry of concern over reports that frozen chicken wings imported to China from Brazil had tested positive for the coronavirus, experts said on Thursday that the likelihood of catching the virus from food — especially frozen, packaged food — is ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape The Week That Wasn't in COVID-19: Gaiters, Chicken Wings, Nasal Spray Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. This week in COVID-19 news, scientists tested how well various face coverings, including a neck gaiter, blocked respiratory droplets coming from the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Bloomberg Forced Isolation May Be the Only Way to Stop Resurgence of Virus Bloomberg Flare-ups from Australia to Japan show the world hasn't learned an early lesson from the coronavirus crisis: to stop the spread, those with mild or symptom-free coronavirus infections must be forced to isolate, both from their communities and family. Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Should you ditch your gaiter as a face mask? Not so fast, scientists say Livescience.com The news about neck gaiters stemmed from a study that wasn't conducted to test masks, but to test a methodology. Shares. Comments (0). A man wearing a gaiter to cover his mouth and nose runs in central London. (Image: © LeoPatrizi via Getty Images). Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY The pandemic is taking a toll on Americans' mental health. A new CDC study shows who we need to worry about most. USA TODAY The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on Americans' mental health, according to a new survey out Thursday from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It found elevated levels of symptoms of anxiety and depressive disorders, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Exclusive: US to make coronavirus strain for possible human challenge trials Reuters CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to manufacture a strain of the novel coronavirus that could be used in human challenge trials of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would be vaccinated and ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Calderdale coronavirus cases 'among the highest in country' BBC News Coronavirus infections in parts of Calderdale are "amongst the very highest in the country", its director of public health has said. Debs Harkins said cases were "increasing faster" than other parts of Yorkshire. Public Health England figures show 104 cases in ... Flag as irrelevant
	WBUR 13 States Make Contact Tracing Data Public. Here's What They're Learning WBUR When everyone who tests positive for coronavirus in your community gets a call from a public health worker asking them about their contacts, and those contacts are then asked to quarantine, that can be a powerful way to keep the virus from spreading. Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress COVID-19 and pregnancy: What we know about what happens to your immune system Medical Xpress Any new infectious disease poses unique challenges to people who are pregnant during an outbreak. The effects of SARS, Zika and influenza in pregnancy highlight the potential immediate and longer term detrimental health outcomes a virus can have for ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Hill NIH chief addresses concerns about speed of COVID-19 vaccine development The Hill The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said despite the images conjured up by Operation Warp Speed -- the Trump administration's effort to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market as quickly as possible -- the federal government is taking all the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Mosquitoes are swarming after recent heavy rains in the DC area Washington Post With the floods of summer come the pests of summer — bloodsucking mosquitoes. It takes several days to a couple of weeks for mosquitoes to hatch, molt and fly out of floodwater, but the swarms eventually arrive, in greater numbers than before the flood. Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Sweden's COVID Policy Didn't Create Herd Immunity WebMD By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Aug. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Diverging from much of the world, Sweden let COVID-19 spread in hopes the population would develop "herd immunity." But the risky strategy failed, a new report finds ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Coronavirus: What will happen if we can't produce a vaccine? Medical Xpress There are over 175 COVID-19 vaccines in development. Almost all government strategies for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic are based on the idea that one of these vaccine candidates will eventually provide widespread protection against the virus ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Feeling Anxious? Yoga Can Help Soothe You U.S. News & World Report By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Aug. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Yoga may help people soothe frayed nerves during the coronavirus pandemic, but the ancient practice may also help those with more serious, chronic ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Loss of a specific enzyme increases fat metabolism and exercise endurance in mice Medical Xpress Sugars and fats are the primary fuels that power every cell, tissue and organ. For most cells, sugar is the energy source of choice, but when nutrients are scarce, such as during starvation or extreme exertion, cells will switch to breaking down fats instead. Flag as irrelevant
	Chicago Tribune Here's what to know about kids and COVID-19 as some return to school Chicago Tribune The American Academy of Pediatrics recently reported that nearly 180,000 children tested positive for COVID-19 in the last month, a 90% increase in a four-week period in child cases nationwide. Of those child cases, 97,000 were reported in the latter half of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Dallas County Reports 641 Additional Positive 2019 Novel Coronavirus Cases- 13 August Patch.com From City of Coppell: As of 11:00am August 13, 2020, Dallas County Health and Human Services is reporting 641 additional confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total confirmed case count in Dallas County to 56,428, including ... Flag as irrelevant
	Bloomberg CDC Chief Sees Urgency to Cut Covid Rate to Avoid Flu Collision Bloomberg The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that many regions in the U.S. need to drive the rate of Covid-19 cases sharply lower to avert a dangerous convergence of the pandemic with flu season. CDC Director Robert Redfield said in ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Fact check: 2009 swine flu spread rapidly, but COVID-19 is more deadly USA TODAY The claim: The 2009 swine flu pandemic had 56 million more cases in the U.S. than coronavirus and we did nothing. Over the past several months, social media users have made comparisons between the spreading coronavirus and past disease outbreaks. Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report AHA News: Stroke at 39 Fuels 'Nurse Knuckles' to Transform Career U.S. News & World Report THURSDAY, Aug. 13, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Because of her last name, Donulaé Knuckles has long answered to "Nurse Knuckles." Yet the grit and determination the name conjures fits, too. Raised by a single mom in Detroit, she ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR US Sees Deadly Drug Overdose Spike During Pandemic NPR New data from around the U.S. confirms that drug overdoses are spiking during the coronavirus pandemic, rising by roughly 18%. Reports collected in real time by the Washington, D.C.-based group ODMAP — the Overdose Detection Mapping Application ... Flag as irrelevant
	Minneapolis Star Tribune University of Minnesota launches stem cell trial against severe COVID-19 Minneapolis Star Tribune The immune system overreaction to COVID-19 has become a key target for therapeutic research, including a new trial at the University of Minnesota using stem cells to try to suppress the body's response to infection and repair the damage it causes. Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Covalently closed circular RNA regulates BAP1 deubiquitinase activity in leukemia Medical Xpress Every year, 1.1 million new cases of blood cancers are diagnosed worldwide. Presently, chemotherapy remains the most common and effective course of treatment. However, the emergence of more aggressive forms of leukemia in adults prompts a need for ... Flag as irrelevant
	EurekAlert Multiple sclerosis drug blocks HIV infection and transmission in human immune cells EurekAlert An immunomodulatory drug called fingolimod, which is approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, blocks human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and transmission in human immune cells, according to a study published August 13 in the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Smoking strongly linked to women's lower take up of cancer screening services Medical Xpress Smoking is strongly linked to lower use of cancer screening services by women, and more advanced disease once cancer is diagnosed, reveals research published in the online journal BMJ Open. Tobacco use is falling in many parts of the world, but it's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Today.com As more kids are diagnosed with COVID-19, will MIS-C cases rise? Today.com "Our greatest challenge is that we don't have any way of predicting how bad MIS-C is going to be," one infectious disease pediatrician told TODAY. In the wake of a 40% increase in the number of kids with COVID-19 in late July, experts speculate that there ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal CDC Data Confirm Mental Health is Suffering During COVID-19 Medscape Megan Brooks. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to exact a huge toll on mental health in the United States, according to results of a survey released today by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During late June, about two in ... Flag as irrelevant
	SocialNews.XYZ Fear and Empathy at LA Funeral Home Serving Black Families U.S. News & World Report By ARON RANEN, Associated Press. LOS ANGELES (AP) — When people began dying from the coronavirus in the United States, for a few weeks funeral home owner Candy Boyd declined to receive the remains of such patients. There were too many ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Boston Globe Harvard pandemic expert Ashish Jha takes a more optimistic view of the fall and winter The Boston Globe A number of experts say that the United States could be in serious trouble as it heads toward the fall and winter without having gotten the coronavirus pandemic under control. But Dr. Ashish Jha, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said ... Flag as irrelevant
	Houston Chronicle Health officials hope additional emphasis on flu shots will prevent a flu-plus-COVID surge Houston Chronicle Walgreens ordered extra flu vaccines. The Houston Health Department will administer flu shots at drive-thru clinics. And Baylor College of Medicine has created an influenza task force to develop strategies for vaccinating its workforce. From the trenches of a ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today CDC Details COVID-19's Massive Mental Health Impact MedPage Today Nearly 11% of American adults seriously considered suicide this June, according to CDC data. Among 5,470 people surveyed in the last week of June, 30.9% reported symptoms of an anxiety or a depressive disorder, 25.3% reported a traumatic or ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Herd Immunity May Be Slowing Spread in US, As Study Finds 40 Percent Community Infection Provides Protection Newsweek Herd immunity may be slowing the spread of COVID-19 in some parts of the U.S., scientists say, as a study finds that a population-wide infection rate of around 40 percent might be sufficient to achieve this form of community protection against the disease. Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine The importins of pain Science Magazine Neuropathic pain, which is pain that arises from injury or disease affecting the somatosensory nervous system, affects millions of people with devastating consequences to their well-being. Available therapeutics have limited efficacy, and the underlying ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Three More US States Launching Coronavirus Exposure Warning Apps U.S. News & World Report OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - North Dakota, Wyoming and Alabama are the latest U.S. states launching apps to warn users about potential exposure to the novel coronavirus by tracking their encounters, representatives for the states told Reuters on Thursday. Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Dr. Fauci on US coronavirus outbreak: 'I'm not pleased with how things are going' CNBC White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said he is not pleased with the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. U.S. public health officials are beginning to see a "disturbing" uptick in the rate of coronavirus tests that come back ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Stroke at 39 fuels 'Nurse Knuckles' to transform career Medical Xpress Because of her last name, Donulaé Knuckles has long answered to "Nurse Knuckles." Yet the grit and determination the name conjures fits, too. Raised by a single mom in Detroit, she prioritized her education. Regularly studying deep into the evening, she ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report WHO: No Evidence of Coronavirus Transmission Through Food U.S. News & World Report The World Health Organization on Thursday said that there is "no evidence" that food is playing a role in coronavirus infections. [. SEE: The Latest News on the Coronavirus Outbreak ]. "There is no evidence that food or the food chain is participating in ... Flag as irrelevant
	KTVQ Billings News In Montana, doctors aren't required to tell women they have dense breast tissue - a known risk for cancer KTVQ Billings News BILLINGS— Research shows that women with dense breast tissue are at a higher risk for breast cancer. But in Montana, they may not know that risk because their healthcare providers aren't required to tell them. Montana continues to be one of a handful of ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNET Air purifiers and COVID-19: Do they really work? CNET COVID-19 has made most of us more aware than ever of the air we breathe. The thought of coronavirus proliferating inside our own homes or businesses -- particularly in poorly ventilated spaces -- is enough to make most of us start to feel a little paranoid. Flag as irrelevant
	News18 Twelve Cases of Nile Fever Confirmed in Spain's Andalusia The New York Times MADRID — Twelve out of 19 people suffering from meningitis in the southern Spanish province of Seville have tested positive for Nile fever, with the remaining seven samples still pending results, the regional government of Andalusia said on Thursday. Flag as irrelevant

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