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	health Daily update ⋅ October 20, 2020
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	The New York Times 5 Ways Families Can Prepare as Coronavirus Cases Surge The New York Times Experts recommend that both adults and children 6 months and older be fully vaccinated against influenza by the end of October. If your child is under 9 and has never received a flu vaccine, or has only received ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Senior Covid-19 patients suffer 'brain fog' in drawn-out recovery CNN (Kaiser Health News) "Lord, give me back my memory." For months, as Marilyn Walters struggled to recover from Covid-19, she has repeated this prayer day and night. Like other older adults who've become critically ill from the coronavirus, Walters, 65, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN UK government signs contract for first coronavirus human challenge studies CNN London (CNN) The UK government has signed a contract for the first human challenge studies for the novel coronavirus, in which healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with the virus in a controlled setting, and some receive an experimental vaccine. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Australia quarantine blood-testing blunder prompts calls for hundreds to take HIV test CNN (CNN) More than 200 former residents of coronavirus quarantine facilities in Australia are being urged to test for blood-transmitted diseases, including HIV, after authorities admitted they used the same blood-testing devices for multiple guests. It's the latest in ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Plague history shows how a pandemic's course can be shaped CNN (CNN) Plague outbreaks in London spread four times faster in the 17th century than they did in the 14th century, researchers have estimated after studying troves of wills and death records. Researchers from Canada's McMaster University analyzed thousands ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News UK launching controversial vaccine trials where volunteers will be infected with the coronavirus ABC News In a bid to speed up the race to find a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, the U.K. government announced Tuesday morning that it will be launching some controversial vaccine trials known as challenge trials. In a world first for COVID-19, young healthy ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR UK Preparing COVID-19 Vaccine Trials That Deliberately Infect Study Subjects NPR Researchers in Britain are preparing to start a controversial COVID-19 "human challenge" study in which dozens of healthy volunteers will be exposed to live coronavirus in an effort to speed up vaccine development. The Human Challenge Programme will be ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Britain to infect healthy volunteers with coronavirus in vaccine challenge trials Washington Post LONDON — British scientists said Tuesday they will launch the world's first human challenge trials for covid-19, in which healthy volunteers will be deliberately infected with the coronavirus in hopes of further speeding the drive to a vaccine. Support our ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times My Brother Died of Brain Cancer. 20 Years Later, I Had It, Too. The New York Times It was the afternoon of Jan. 31. I was preparing for a dinner party and adding final touches to my cheese platter when everything suddenly went dark. I woke up feeling baffled in a hospital bed. My husband filled me in: Apparently, I had suffered a massive ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Long-term problems in younger low-risk COVID-19 patients; flu shot may offer some protection Reuters (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed coronavirus model is seen in front of a ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Study: Plastic Baby Bottles Shed Microplastics When Heated. Should You Be Worried? NPR The study suggests that bottle-fed infants around the world may be consuming more than 1.5 million particles of microplastics per day on average. But the researchers caution that parents should not be alarmed by the findings. Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay CDC Recommends Face Masks in All Public Transportation Settings HealthDay TUESDAY, Oct. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Seeking to slow the spread of coronavirus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Monday that face masks be worn by everyone in all public transportation settings. That includes ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head The New York Times After millenniums of careful slicing and dicing, it might seem as though scientists have figured out human anatomy. A few dozen organs, a couple hundred bones and connective tissue to tie it all together. But despite centuries of scrutiny, the body is still ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Is reaching zero COVID-19 possible? Medical Xpress Most scientists agree that stringent control measures, involving efficient contact tracing, testing and isolation, together with social distancing and mask wearing, are required to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2. South Korea, Taiwan, China and New Zealand ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress New lab test clarifies the potential protective effects of COVID-19 antibodies Medical Xpress Knowing you have developed antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus after recovering from COVID-19 doesn't tell you everything about your immunity. The levels and even types of antibodies can differ among patients, and those differences can influence ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post 10 residents dead amid virus outbreak at Kansas nursing home Washington Post TOPEKA, Kan. — A coronavirus outbreak has killed 10 residents in a nursing home in a northwestern Kansas county that proportionally already had the nation's largest increase in cases over two weeks. The health department in Norton County reported ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Coronavirus: Study finds further door opener into the cell Medical Xpress The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is known to infect cells via the receptor ACE2. An international research team under German-Finnish coordination has now identified neuropilin-1 as a factor that can facilitate SARS-CoV-2 entry into the cells' interior. Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress UMD-led study shows fear and anxiety share same bases in brain EurekAlert COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Anxiety, the most common family of mental illnesses in the U.S., has been pushed to epic new heights by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating that nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults and a ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR UNICEF To Stockpile Over Half A Billion Syringes For Future COVID-19 Vaccine NPR UNICEF, the largest single buyer of vaccines in the world, wants to hit the ground running as soon as a COVID-19 vaccine is ready. The United Nations agency said Monday it plans to stockpile 520 million syringes by the end of 2020. It also will map out global ... Flag as irrelevant
	WJXT News4JAX Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access WJXT News4JAX GAMPELA – The chain breaks here, in a tiny medical clinic in Burkina Faso that went nearly a year without a working refrigerator. From factory to syringe, the world's most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates need non-stop sterile refrigeration to stay ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Atlantic The Vaccine News That Really Matters The Atlantic Before COVID-19 upended our lives, clinical vaccine trials typically made news only when they were done—when scientists could definitively say, Yes, this one works or No, it doesn't. These days, every step of the COVID-19 vaccine-development process ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Health Officials Predict Most Texans Won't Have Access To COVID-19 Vaccine Until July At The Earliest Patch.com By Aria Jones, The Texas Tribune Oct. 19, 2020. If a COVID-19 vaccine is ready next month, Texas health officials predict it won't be widely available to Texans until at least July. Under the state's vaccine distribution plan, vulnerable people, including health ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Mouthwashes, oral rinses may inactivate human coronaviruses Medical Xpress Certain oral antiseptics and mouthwashes may have the ability to inactivate human coronaviruses, according to a Penn State College of Medicine research study. The results indicate that some of these products might be useful for reducing the viral load, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American America's Last Line of Defense for a Safe Vaccine Scientific American When the Food and Drug Administration ran into White House resistance to its proposed vaccine safety standards in early October, the agency took a bold step: It published the guidance on its Web site. The public could now see what vaccine manufacturers ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Patients who had more severe COVID-19 may be the best donors for convalescent plasma therapy Medical Xpress Sex, age, and severity of disease may be useful in identifying COVID-19 survivors who are likely to have high levels of antibodies that can protect against the disease, according to a new study co-led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Doctors probe whether COVID-19 is causing diabetes Reuters (Reuters) - Mario Buelna, a healthy 28-year-old father, caught a fever and started having trouble breathing in June. He soon tested positive for COVID-19. The Simis family, Atticus, Sarah, Arthur and Ophelia, pose for a photo in Gardnerville, Nevada, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Colorado resident, 20, with 'mild' coronavirus case later develops rare condition: officials Fox News A 20-year-old Colorado resident who battled the novel coronavirus later developed a rare but serious condition known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), according to local health officials in the state. The resident, of Boulder County, suffered only ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Flu vaccine: NI to 'pause' vaccination programme for under-65s BBC News There will be a pause on giving the flu vaccine to people under 65 in Northern Ireland until more stock is received, the Public Health Agency has said. It said that following "phenomenal" demand, Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK was "now reaching full ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Denver Post New cases of COVID-19 in Colorado reach record high as hospitalizations continue to climb The Denver Post New cases of COVID-19 in Colorado hit a record high last week as hospitalizations for the novel coronavirus also continued to climb. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reported 6,722 cases of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN 10 people have died after every resident of a Kansas nursing home got Covid-19 CNN And despite calls for help from communities across the country, some nursing homes still lacked adequate testing capacity and suffered staff and PPE shortages, the report found. Kansas has reported 71,557 cases of Covid-19 and 870 deaths as of early ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress COVID-19 pandemic has dramatic impact on osteoporosis management, finds new global study Medical Xpress FRAX is used to generate 10-year probabilities of fracture at the hip or major skeletal sites using clinical risk factors, with or without bone mineral density (BMD) values. FRAX calculators are available for 66 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Texas Tribune Health officials predict most Texans won't have access to COVID-19 vaccine until July at the earliest Texas Tribune Under the state's vaccine distribution plan, vulnerable people, including health care workers, older people and people with underlying medical conditions, would likely be the first to get the vaccine in the early months that it's available. by Aria Jones Oct. 19, ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Four US Counties Remain COVID-free WebMD October 19, 2020 -- Four of the 3,143 counties in the U.S. haven't reported a coronavirus case, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Public health officials are curious about the counties with zero cases: Loving, Texas; Esmeralda, Nevada; ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Maine CDC links 32 COVID-19 cases to Waldo County church outbreak pressherald.com The number of COVID-19 cases connected to an outbreak at a Waldo County church nearly doubled in one day, going from 17 on Sunday to 32 on Monday. "The outbreak investigation associated with Brooks ... Flag as irrelevant
	pressherald.com 7 tips for staying safe as COVID-19 cases rise and colder weather heightens risk pressherald.com The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. As temperatures fall, people are spending more time indoors. That heightens the risk of the coronavirus spreading, but there are some ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Study shows fear and anxiety share same bases in brain Medical Xpress Anxiety, the most common family of mental illnesses in the U.S., has been pushed to epic new heights by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating that nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults and a staggering 41% of people ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Hand-held device reads levels of cancer biomarker Medical Xpress Researchers at McMaster and Brock universities have created the prototype for a hand-held device to measure a biomarker for cancer, paving the way for home-based cancer monitoring and to improve access to diagnostic testing. The device works much like ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Enforce quarantine to crush pandemic, says WHO Medical Xpress Contacts of people confirmed to have coronavirus should be properly quarantined, the World Health Organization said on Monday, as the pandemic surges in Europe and North America. WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan linked soaring transmission ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News What are the treatment options for COVID-19? ABC News There are several treatment options for COVID-19, and which one is best depends on how sick someone is. By The Associated Press. October 20, 2020, 1:05 AM. • 2 min read. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Email this article. NOTIFIED: Oct. 19, 2020. Flag as irrelevant
	Suburban Life Publications As COVID-19 numbers rise, DuPage County Health Department recommends 100% remote learning Suburban Life Publications As COVID-19 case numbers and positivity rates continue to climb in DuPage County and throughout the western suburbs, the DuPage County Health Department is recommending that schools move to 100% remote learning. The health department, in a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Deseret News Southern Utah hospital opens 'surge ICU' as COVID-19 spike shows no sign of leveling off Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Hospital officials again called on residents to work to stem the spread of COVID-19 on Monday even as one southern Utah hospital opened a "surge" intensive care unit to treat increasing numbers of coronavirus patients. "We continue to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Air conditioning in ICUs with coronavirus patients putting doctors at risk, study claims Fox News They also noted that keeping senior doctors over the age of 60 away from coronavirus patients will help keep health care workers healthy. By Alexandria Hein | Fox News. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Comments; Print; Email. close. Europe combats second ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post What are the treatment options for COVID-19? Washington Post What are the treatment options for COVID-19? There are several, and which one is best depends on how sick someone is. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. For example, steroids such as dexamethasone can lower the risk of dying for severely ill ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Study reveals restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy Medical Xpress A breakthrough study, led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine, results in the restoration of retinal and visual functions of mice models suffering from inherited retinal disease. Published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the paper, titled ... Flag as irrelevant
	Trends Press Wire COVID-19 pandemic has dramatic impact on osteoporosis management, finds new global study Newswise With FRAX fracture risk calculations down by 58% in April 2020 alone, it is estimated that within a 3-month period, more than 0.5 million patients have been excluded from risk assessment -- and many from necessary treatment for osteoporosis. 19-Oct-2020 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Improved mental and physical condition is directly linked to nutrition, study shows Medical Xpress Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Abbott and, the U.S. Air Force Research Lab announced today the results of a new study that found a direct link between physical fitness, cognitive performance, and optimal nutrition. The scientists ... Flag as irrelevant
	KOMO News Doctors warn of rising COVID-19 deaths during winter months KOMO News Doctors are stressing that deaths from coronavirus will rise significantly this winter across the state. These new predictions come as some people think scientists are exaggerating the dangers of this pandemic. "Of course I'm tired of COVID, but I think everyone ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healio COVID-19 mortality increases among Hispanic population in US Healio Deaths associated with COVID-19 disproportionately affect the Hispanic and Black communities in the United States, according to research published in MMWR. Although COVID-19-related mortality has slightly decreased among Black people from May to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress From fluffy to valuable: How the brain recognises objects Medical Xpress To recognize a chair or a dog, our brain separates objects into their individual properties and then puts them back together. Until recently, it has remained unclear what these properties are. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Cold water may be an effective defense against dementia Fox News However, researchers can't recommend ice baths as a safe treatment due to the inherent dangers of swimming in near-freezing temperatures. By Hannah Sparks | New York Post. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Comments; Print; Email. close. Fox News Flash ... Flag as irrelevant

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