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Covid Antibody Drugs Go Unused as Need Soars Covid Antibody Drugs Go Unused as Need Soars. While such treatments are promising, their use has been slowed by testing lags, overwhelmed hospitals and a perception the therapies are only for well-connected people.
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Isolation Helps Homeless Population Escape Worst of Virus OAKLAND, Calif. — Under a highway overpass in downtown Oakland, Camilla Everette sleeps on a couch, with a blue-and-white-striped summer parasol offering the only protection from the drops of rainwater that fall from the concrete above her. One of the ...
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Stimulus targets COVID vaccine rollout; global officials deal with variant virus As new details emerge about the newly passed $900 billion coronavirus relief package, US public health officials are welcoming the added resources for delivering the vaccine and shoring up other pandemic response activities. And in global developments, ...
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What 3 centuries of smallpox mortality data shows about how epidemics linger (CNN) As so many people around the globe contemplate what their lives might look like after the pandemic, new research on smallpox might help provide insight. Researchers revealed nearly three centuries of data showing repeated smallpox epidemics in ...
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From Kansas City to Cleveland: Comparing COVID Waves Find the latest COVID-19 news in guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Medscape asked emergency medicine and critical care physicians to compare the first wave of COVID-19 with the current ...
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Large-scale study will track virus spread, vaccination rates in Washington region A massive study announced Tuesday may help local health officials better track the spread of the novel coronavirus in the region and identify pockets of vaccine hesitancy. The two-year study, led by researchers at MedStar Health and sponsored by the ...
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Fauci: 'Umbrella of Protection' Possible By Summer Dec. 23, 2020 -- Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that Americans will have to wait until summer before they can return to some normal activities and attend events again. It depends on a smooth rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Fauci said during an interview ...
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Does Your Blood Pressure Change When You Lie Down? Hypertension Stage 2. This is a reading that's consistently measured at 140/90 mm Hg or higher. At this stage, your doctor will prescribe blood pressure medications and instruct you to make lifestyle changes.
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Another new variant of COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in South Africa A new variant of the coronavirus, which appears to be more transmissible, has been discovered in South Africa and is being blamed for a new surge in COVID-19 cases there. Though it emerged independently, it features a similar mutation to the new variant ...
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Doctor who discovered Ebola warns of new deadly diseases Doctor who discovered Ebola warns of new deadly diseases. Humanity faces an unknown number of new and potentially fatal viruses emerging from Africa's tropical rainforests, according to Professor Jean-Jacques Tamfum, who helped discover the Ebola virus ...
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New coronavirus cases in US may be leveling off -- but more and more are being hospitalized and dying (CNN) An average of more than 200,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus every day for two straight weeks in the United States, a toll that has led to record numbers of people hospitalized and dying of the virus. The US reported over 195,000 new ...
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What We Know About The New UK Variant Of Coronavirus — And What We Need To Find Out Throughout this pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — has been mutating. It has accumulated about one or two mutations each month. That's not surprising. Viruses always mutate.
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Is it safe to get the COVID-19 vaccine if you're pregnant? In general, many vaccines given in pregnancy did not undergo formal clinical trials in pregnant people before being recommended for them, according to a 2014 report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Instead, safety ...
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This Houston hospital is a perfect microcosm of how coronavirus is escalating (CNN) In June, Houston's United Memorial Medical Center was so overwhelmed by the pandemic that two of its wings had been transformed into Covid-19 wards. Now, there are three. Dr. Joseph Varon, chief medical officer, hadn't had a day off since the ...
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Tonix Pharmaceuticals Plans Commercial Scale Vaccine Manufacturing Facility Hamilton, MT Facility Is Planned to Manufacture Vaccines at Commercial Scale, Including Vaccines Under Development for COVID-19. CHATHAM, N.J., Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: TNXP) (Tonix or ...
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COVID-19 vaccine rollout plagued by protests, failed technology and front-line workers missing out It has been more than a week since the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine's much-anticipated shipments arrived at the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. While thousands of front-line health care workers are said to have been ...
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When will PCPs receive a COVID-19 vaccine? In the days following the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, it was distributed to institutions nationwide, each of which had different plans for vaccine prioritization among health care workers. While vaccination has already ...
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Some Texans are hesitant to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Here's how health officials are countering skepticism. Doctors Hospital at Renaissance employees in Edinburg ready a Pfizer vaccine for administration on Dec. 19, 2020 Credit: Jason Garza for The Texas Tribune. When Julieta Hernandez began hearing the first rumblings about a COVID-19 vaccine soon ...
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Exercising in the Fight Against COVID-19 It should be noted that morbid obesity is by itself a risk factor for developing coronary artery disease, heart failure, diabetes, and many other diseases. In fact, independent of obesity-related comorbidities, patients ...
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Inside the Emotional Roller Coaster of Administering the Vaccine Vaccine Diaries is a series of dispatches exploring the rollout of COVID-19 immunizations. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Betsy Elswick, a pharmacist and associate professor at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy who has ...
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Covid-19: Latest figures for Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire There have been more than two million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and more than 67,000 people have died, government figures show. However, these figures include only those who have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus ...
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2020 set to become first year in US history with more than 3 million deaths Preliminary numbers suggest that the United States is on track to see more than 3.2 million deaths this year, or at least 400,000 more than in 2019. A funeral-home manager transports a body in Harlem, New York, in April. johannes eisele/Agence ...
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First 10 Days After Hospital Discharge Especially Risky for COVID Survivors TUESDAY, Dec. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Being discharged from the hospital following a serious bout of COVID-19 is far from a clean bill of health, new research warns, and the risk of rehospitalization or death peaks early. In the study, more than ...
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Arlington: People 65 And Older Or With Certain Medical Conditions In Next Phase For Coronavirus Vaccine Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner John Hellerstedt, MD, has approved that definition. "The focus on people who are age 65 and older or who have comorbidities will protect the most vulnerable populations, ...
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A deadly pandemic, restrictions and an invisible enemy: Christmas 1918 eerily similar to today Streetcars could barely make their way through the crowd of thousands celebrating Nov. 11, 1918, in downtown Louisville. Celebratory gunfire and fireworks popped. Church bells rang. Businesses closed for the day. Tin cans tied to the rear of vehicles ...
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2020 Most Influential: Empathy is Dr. Clayton Chau's compass as he steers Orange County through the pandemic Not long after he took the helm as Orange County's health officer in June – in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic – anti-mask protesters discovered Dr. Clayton Chau's address. Angered by public health edicts, they gathered with signs outside Chau's ...
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Why it matters that the coronavirus is changing – and what this means for vaccine effectiveness A new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom, with over 1,400 cases since September. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, generally accumulates mutations slowly over time, but this new variant had accumulated many ...
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Staff At Hoboken Hospital And Other Area Hospitals Gets Vaccine HOBOKEN, NJ — Officials at Hoboken University Medical Center provided the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare workers at the hospital on Tuesday morning. Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including the Moderna vaccine, are a ...
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What's causing rare allergic reactions to Pfizer's vaccine? Public health officials are investigating the cause of several severe allergic reactions that were reported among hundreds of thousands of people vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine last week. As of Friday (Dec. 18), six people who ...
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Preventing COVID Means Wearing Masks While Social Distancing: Study By Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Dec. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Keep your distance. Although wearing a mask can limit transmission of droplets that spread COVID-19, it may not be enough unless people also stay at least ...
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Mayor Duggan gets COVID-19 vaccine shot, outlines Detroit's deployment plan Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has gotten his first shot of vaccine against COVID-19. Duggan, without even a wince, took the first of two needles for the vaccine live during a Tuesday press conference, just a day after the city received its shipment from Moderna.
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US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted NEW YORK — (AP) — This is the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths expected to top 3 million for the first time — due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic. Final mortality data for this year will not be available for months. But preliminary numbers suggest ...
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New mammogram measures of breast cancer risk could revolutionise screening World-first techniques for predicting breast cancer risk from mammograms that were developed in Melbourne could revolutionise breast screening by allowing it to be tailored to women at minimal extra cost. Published in the International Journal of Cancer, the ...
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'Eating disorders don't take a break for Christmas' "I'm trying to think of Christmas beyond the food but it's difficult," Lucy Tawn tells us. The 21-year-old from Yorkshire has had anorexia for seven years and she's speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat from hospital. "At the moment I'm preparing to spend Christmas on ...
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Florida coronavirus: 10434 new infections, 74 more residents dead Florida added 10,434 coronavirus cases Tuesday to bring the cumulative total to 1,223,015. With 74 more fatalities, 20,754 Florida residents are now dead. It's the 14th day in a row that Florida ...
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In UK study, people with HIV at increased risk for death from COVID-19 A study of more than 17 million people in England revealed that those living with HIV had a higher risk for death from COVID-19 than people without HIV, according to findings published in The Lancet HIV. Researchers reported that the risk was even greater ...
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Highly endangered black-footed ferrets get experimental Covid-19 vaccine A veterinarian with the US Fish and Wildlife Service inoculates a black-footed ferret to protect against Covid-19 at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Fort Collins, Colorado. The ferret is among 120 endangered animals in a captive ...
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US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted This is the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths expected to top 3 million for the first time — due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic. Final mortality data for this year will not be available for months. But preliminary numbers suggest that the United States ...
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US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted COVID-19 has killed more than 318,000 Americans and counting. Before it came along, there was reason to be hopeful about U.S. death trends. The nation's overall mortality rate fell a bit in 2019, ...
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Coronavirus: 39% of Covid deaths in NI linked to dementia Research shows that a third of people whose deaths are linked to Covid-19 in NI had a form of dementia. This report by Nisra shows that dementia and Alzheimer's disease is the most common pre-exsisting condition among those who died. Meanwhile in ...
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Are COVID-19 vaccines safe for people living with HIV? LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the first COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out around the world, HIV/AIDS experts and advocates have sought to reassure those living with HIV that they can safely get the coronavirus vaccination. Some countries ...
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Florida nursing home deaths spike but lower than US average TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Deaths in Florida's nursing homes doubled during the Thanksgiving holiday, according to statistics gathered by the AARP. But Florida's rate was dramatically lower than the national average, as COVID-19 infections across the country ...
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Exposed to coronavirus? Know when to isolate vs. quarantine Health officials and medical professionals are pleading with Americans to practice safe public health measures like wearing a mask, avoiding crowded areas, washing hands and practicing social distancing to avoid contracting or spreading coronavirus.
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Oregon reports 1282 new COVID-19 cases and 35 more deaths PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon health officials reported on Tuesday that another 35 people have died from COVID-19, raising the state's death toll to 1,382. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) also reported 1,282 more cases of the coronavirus, which brings the ...
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As COVID-19 vaccinations ramp up, skepticism prevalent among Michigan's Black residents As doctors and health officials celebrate the long-awaited arrival of the coronavirus vaccine, there's a divide among Black Americans, especially in the hard-hit city of Detroit, with many saying they are skeptical of a "rushed medical breakthrough.".
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Ebola: Reston virus spreads efficiently in pigs, according to researchers Reston ebolavirus (RESTV) should be considered a livestock pathogen with potential to affect other mammals, including people, according to National Institutes of Health scientists. The caution comes from a study published in Proceedings of the National ...
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Anti-HER2 Drug Continues to Impress in Metastatic Breast Cancer Updated data on trastuzumab deruxtecan (Enhertu) from the DESTINY-Breast01 trial, presented during the virtual 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, continued to show prolonged responses and impressive overall survival in heavily pretreated ...
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LA County fire departments prepare to receive COVID-19 vaccine Fire departments across Los Angeles County will soon receive doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, bringing relief to agencies whose ranks have been hit by the spread of the virus in the community. Emergency medical services personnel will be vaccinated in the ...
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Researchers think 'hundreds' of people in US could have new UK coronavirus strain (CNN) Researchers studying the new UK strain of the coronavirus think it likely arrived in the US in mid-November, and that many people in the United States could already be infected. "If I had to guess, I would say it's probably in hundreds of people by now," ...
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Vaccines Should Work Against New COVID-19 Strain We must treat this strain with the respect it deserves, but we must not panic. There is no doubt that increased infectivity equates with increases in deaths, but it does not mean the vaccines will not work. There is no doubt that the major news story of the week is ...
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