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CDC Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists' Objections A controversial guideline saying people without Covid-19 symptoms didn't need to get tested for the virus came from H.H.S. officials and skipped the C.D.C.'s scientific review process.
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HD Live!: COVID-19 and Flu Season — How to Lessen the Potential for a Twindemic Join us Tuesday, September 22nd at 12 p.m. ET for our latest HD Live! discussion on what could happen this flu season as COVID-19 still rages on across the country. How can we protect ourselves, and what can we and the health care system do to prepare ...
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'We just had no answers': COVID-19 'long-haulers' still learning why they're sick Recurrent fevers, persistent constipation or diarrhea, intense bouts of fatigue, debilitating brain fog and vivid hallucinations — some people who catch COVID-19 experience symptoms like these for months on end, and we're still learning why that is.
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CU Study Confirms Singing Unmasked Inside Spreads COVID Through Particles BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) – A new study done by University of Colorado scientists confirms that singing without a mask on inside can spread COVID-19 particles easily. The study examined a March rehearsal in Washington. The study, which has been peer ...
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The US doesn't have to wait for a vaccine to get Covid-19 under control, nation's top doctor says (CNN) With the timeline of a widely available vaccine still unknown, the nation's top doctor says the US doesn't have to wait to get Covid-19 under control. "We can do it right now," US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said Thursday. "The tools to stop this ...
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Mosquito-borne EEE spreading in Michigan, officials say. 6 more animal cases identified The rare and potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus eastern equine encephalitis is spreading in Michigan, state health officials announced Thursday. Six more horses now have confirmed cases of the virus, which is spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes, ...
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Coffee May Slow Spread of Colon Cancer By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Just a few cups of coffee a day may help slow down the deadly progression of advanced colon cancer, new research finds. Of the nearly 1,200 patients in the ...
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Michiganders urged to stay indoors as officials race to stop the spread of a dangerous mosquito-borne disease Authorities are urging people to stay indoors after dark and protect themselves from mosquito bites after a resident in Barry County was suspected of having Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), a potentially deadly illness caused by the EEE virus.
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There's Only Weak Evidence For Vitamin-D As a COVID-19 Preventative—But Scientists Are Trying to Learn More To protect himself from COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci has long said he's skipping hugs and handshakes, wearing a mask, and staying off of planes. Last week, he acknowledged adding another step to protect his health: taking supplements of vitamin-D.
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Almost 90000 Young American Adults Will Get Cancer This Year: Report By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 90,000 Americans between 15 and 39 years of age will be diagnosed with cancer this year and more than 9,200 will die, a new report projects.
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Another Rapid COVID-19 Test Shows Promise By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Yet another rapid COVID-19 test has proven its mettle in spotting infection with the new coronavirus, this time in a British study. The lab-in-a-cartridge testing ...
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As many as 51% of all school employees are at increased risk of Covid-19, study finds (CNN) School districts across the country are navigating out how to reopen safely amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic, and the results of a new study could make those decisions more difficult. Between 42% and 51% of all school employees in the US met ...
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AHA News: A Stroke at 37 Meant Relearning Everything THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- On most Fridays, Angela Crenshaw worked from home. But the day before, Crenshaw had joined colleagues on a work outing to a horse racetrack to celebrate their manager's 10-year ...
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'Incredibly Difficult' To Fight Coronavirus, Flu Together: Baker Gov. Charlie Baker — getting his own flu shot Thursday at a CVS in Roslindale — pushed residents to get theirs ahead of a potential second wave of COVID-19 cases, something that healthcare workers are worried could overload the system. Because of how ...
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Coronavirus clusters at French universities give Europe a lesson PARIS (AP) — Can mandatory masks offer enough protection in lecture halls so packed that late arrivals have to sit on the floor? That's what worries many students at the centuries-old Sorbonne University in Paris as the coronavirus is on the rebound across ...
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COVID Prevention May Mean Record Low Flu Rates By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The final statistics are in for America's last flu season, and the news is good: Record low rates of influenza were reported as cases plummeted during the early ...
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AHA News: Young Women May Face Greater Stroke Risk Than Young Men FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Young women are more likely than their male peers to have a stroke, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a claims database of insured people in the United States from 2001 to 2014, ...
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Another Rapid COVID-19 Test Shows Promise FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Yet another rapid COVID-19 test has proven its mettle in spotting infection with the new coronavirus, this time in a British study. The lab-in-a-cartridge testing device -- which can be performed at bedside, doesn't ...
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Scientists may know where coronavirus originated, study says Months into the coronavirus pandemic, researchers are still investigating the actual event where the crossover of the novel coronavirus from animals to humans occurred. A team of scientists may have discovered the answer to the question many have been ...
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Coronavirus: Scarborough and Selby marked 'areas of concern' Scarborough and Selby in North Yorkshire have been named as "areas of concern" by Public Health England, due to a rise in coronavirus cases. The coastal towns of Whitby and Filey, as well as Scarborough town centre are included, as are Tadcaster, ...
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Dr. Offit: Prepare to wear masks and socially distance even after getting COVID-19 vaccine Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatrician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who co-invented the rotavirus vaccine. Dr. Paul Offit. MarketWatch photo illustration/Getty Images, iStockphoto. Email icon; Facebook icon; Twitter icon; Linkedin icon; Flipboard icon. Print icon ...
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How could wearing a mask help build immunity to COVID-19? It's all about the viral dose People infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can spread the virus when they speak, sing, cough, sneeze or even just breathe. Scientists think face masks help limit virus spread by protecting everyone else from the infected wearer.
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LA County Reports Another Three Dozen Coronavirus Deaths CULVER CITY, CA — Another three dozen coronavirus-related deaths were reported Thursday by Los Angeles County health officials, who again urged people to get a flu shot and keep social distancing and wearing face masks to continue taking ...
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Flu season may be very mild this year, thanks to COVID-19 precautions Flu season may be pretty mild this year thanks to measures taken to stop the spread of COVID-19, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the report, published Thursday (Sept. 17) in the CDC journal Morbidity ...
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Could COVID-19 Pandemic Increase Physician Burnout, Suicide? On September 17, MedPage Today, recognizes National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255. Physicians have one of the highest rates of ...
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Rapid 90-minute COVID-19 test shown to be highly accurate A 90-minute COVID-19 test has been shown to have over 94 percent sensitivity, and 100 percent specificity in a new study. The work, published in the journal The Lancet Microbe, was led by scientists from Imperial College London.In the research, the ...
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If COVID-19 Vaccine Is Approved, Could Schools Mandate Getting Vaccinated? A group of experts outlined several criteria that could be used to decide if a COVID-19 vaccine is mandatory for children. Several COVID-19 vaccines are in late-stage clinical trials, but so far none have been approved in the United States for widespread public ...
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More Pets May Be Getting COVID-19 Than Realized By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- There are "substantial" rates of coronavirus infection in dogs and cats whose owners have COVID-19, new research shows. The researchers also found that, ...
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COVID-19 Prevention Might Translate Into Record Low Flu Rates: CDC By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The final statistics are in for America's last flu season, and the news is good: Record low rates of influenza were reported as cases plummeted during ...
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Health Highlights: Sept. 18, 2020 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Controversial COVID Testing Guidelines Posted on CDC Website Without Scientific Review. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) officials wrote a ...
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Has Australia really had 60000 undiagnosed COVID-19 cases? A preliminary study, posted online this week by researchers at the Australian National University and elsewhere, estimates 71,000 Australians had COVID-19 by mid-July—60,000 more than official number of cases diagnosed by that stage. The study involved ...
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Coronavirus: Barrow 'six people, two households' advice given New "six people, two households" advice has been published in a Cumbrian town after a rise in Covid-19 infections. The number of cases in Barrow has risen to 34 from 23 in the past week, with the rate per 100,000 people at 50.7 in the week to 14 ...
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90-minute British DnaNudge COVID-19 test is accurate, Lancet study finds LONDON (Reuters) - A British COVID-19 test known as DnaNudge that gives results in just over an hour and which requires no laboratory was accurate in almost all cases, an academic review in the Lancet has found. FILE PHOTO: People queue outside a ...
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CMU, Pitt developing covid antibody test that gives results within seconds Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC are collaborating to develop a new antibody test — which they say is one of the fastest antibody tests in existence. The test uses a small drop of blood from a fingertip to search ...
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Maine Wedding Linked to 7 COVID-19 Deaths Public health officials have linked 176 COVID-19 cases and seven deaths to an August wedding held in Maine, according to CNN, and the seven deaths were among people who didn't attend the reception. The Aug. 7 wedding, held at the Big Moose Inn in ...
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School nurses are at the front lines of epidemic as schools reopen With wildfires creating a giant mass of smoke in Montana in recent days, school nurse Karen Graf worried about the challenges of assessing kids who were having trouble breathing. "Is it COVID? Is it asthma? Is it influenza? Is it the smoke in the air? That's just ...
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COVID-19 could cause declines in life expectancy A new analysis of period life expectancy around the world shows that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause a short-term decline in life expectancy in many regions of the world. Unless the spread of the disease is contained, COVID-19 will likely lead to ...
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'This is a big moment:' UK government cautions on virus LONDON (AP) — Fresh restrictions on social gatherings in England, potentially involving limiting pub opening hours, appear to be on the cards soon as the British government seeks to suppress a sharp spike in new coronavirus infections. British Health ...
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Second UK Lockdown? England COVID-19 Cases Rising by 6000 Per Day By Guy Faulconbridge, Kate Holton and Andy Bruce. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain was on Friday considering whether to impose a second national lockdown, after new COVID-19 cases almost doubled to 6,000 per day, hospital admissions rose and infection ...
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Smoking Ups Your Risk of a Fatal Brain Bleed By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers have a significantly raised risk of dying from a bleeding stroke, a new study warns. For the study, researchers analyzed data from over 16,000 same-sex twin ...
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Study shows SARS-CoV-2 jumped between people and mink, providing strong evidence of zoonotic transmission A study investigating SARS-CoV-2 infections across 16 mink farms in the Netherlands, being presented at the ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID, held online from 23-25 September) shows that the virus likely jumped between people and ...
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Santa Clara County Reports 150 New Coronavirus Cases, 3 Deaths SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — The Santa Clara County Public Health Department reported 150 additional coronavirus cases Thursday. The latest report brings the countywide case count to 19,891. The county reported three additional coronavirus-related ...
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More LA County reopenings could come in October if COVID-19 dip continues If Los Angeles County can continue its downward trend of coronavirus cases, Los Angeles County could see additional reopenings in the next month, the county's public health chief said Wednesday. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the county's Department of ...
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Efforts to prevent COVID-19 led to global decline in flu Interventions to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission have led to a global decline in influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported in MMWR. In addition to causing a significant drop in the percentage of respiratory specimens that tested ...
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Seven dead, dozens infected after 'superspreader' wedding in rural US A wedding in rural Maine became a coronavirus "superspreader" event that left seven people dead and 177 infected, renewing fear of the disease in the northeastern US state that had hoped the worst of the pandemic was behind it. The nuptials in early ...
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Covid-19: Wrexham outbreak declared over by health board A coronavirus outbreak in the Wrexham area has been declared over by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. In August, the area had more Covid-19 deaths - nine - than anywhere in Wales or England for three weeks running. There was also a "spike" of ...
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PTSD May Be Tied to Greater Dementia Risk By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)may significantly increase the risk of dementia later in life, according to a new study. The researchers found that ...
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Expert: Utah Coronavirus Spike Driven by Schools Reopening By SOPHIA EPPOLITO, Associated Press/Report for America. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A spike in COVID-19 cases in Utah will continue if schools continue resisting state health department guidelines, an infectious disease expert warned Thursday.
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Rising Obesity Levels Put Americans at Risk During Pandemic: CDC THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Adult obesity in the United States continues to rise, and being obese increases the risk of severe illness in people with COVID-19, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns. Agency data also ...
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Coronavirus now 19th most common cause of death in Wales Coronavirus is now the 19th most common cause of death in Wales, according to the latest monthly mortality figures. The mortality rate due to Covid-19 has also fallen for the fourth month in a row, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). For August ...
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