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Coronavirus updates: Experts urge faster vaccinations and efforts to curb spread in response to virus variants Saturday marked the third day in a row that more than 1.5 million coronavirus vaccine doses were given in the United States, according to a Washington Post tracker, and the 12th straight day that more than 1 million shots were given.
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UK COVID-19 Update: South African Variant Found in England With No Travel Links These are the UK coronavirus stories you need to know about today. Urgent Tests for South African Variant. Testing for the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 will begin in areas of England, after cases were found with no known links to travel. People in ...
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New Yorkers Are Willing to Drive Six Hours to Nab Covid-19 Vaccine Facing a limited supply of Covid-19 vaccine doses and what they say is a disjointed system for securing appointments, some New York residents are planning to travel hundreds of miles across the state to get a shot. Maura Laverty, a 66-year-old nurse from ...
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As Virus Variants Spread, 'No One Is Safe Until Everyone Is Safe' Rich countries are buying up coronavirus vaccines, leaving poorer regions vulnerable — and as potential breeding grounds for variants, like one found in South Africa, that could make vaccines less effective.
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The Coronavirus Vaccine Presents a Dilemma for Pregnant Women Amanda, a nurse in Sacramento, and her husband have been trying to have a baby for more than two years. For the majority of that time, they've been attempting in-vitro fertilization. Last March, the pandemic shuttered most fertility clinics across the U.S., ...
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Knee Procedure Done Earlier Might Prevent Knee Replacement Later By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For some patients suffering from knee arthritis, a special procedure may reduce the need for a total knee replacement, Canadian researchers say. By getting ...
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LA County Reports 5925 New Cases of COVID-19, 124 More Deaths The county's hospitalization rate has been dropping steadily since it peaked at more than 8,000 in early January. Subscribe. The latest numbers came one day after health officials ...
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Anxiety grows as long-term care awaits COVID-19 vaccines Frustration is building over the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations at long-term care sites, where some homes still await shots while fending off a virus that can devastate their residents. By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer. January 31, 2021, 6:18 AM. • 6 min read.
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RNA Vaccines Work. Let's Make Them For The Flu As I've written before, these RNA vaccines are a scientific triumph. Both the Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are 95% effective against the virus. Both were developed in a matter of days–days!–after the genome sequence of the Covid-19 virus, ...
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SA variant: Urgent testing after community cases found Urgent testing for the South Africa variant of coronavirus is beginning in parts of England, after cases were found with no known links to travel or previous cases. Adults in eight neighbourhoods in Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire and Walsall are being ...
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NJ reports 3823 new COVID cases, 29 additional deaths as vaccinations top 780K New Jersey has now lost 21,484 residents in the nearly 11-month outbreak, with 19,355 confirmed fatalities and 2,129 considered probable. The death toll for January rose to 2,377 confirmed fatalities, the most in any month since May.
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As scientists turn their attention to COVID-19, other research is not getting done Suddenly, the ranks of scientists who had been studying coronaviruses were flooded with newcomers seeking to contribute in some way, many with little prior experience in infectious diseases. Some wanted to join in on the biggest problem facing the world. For ...
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Heart Patients Avoiding Care During Pandemic: Survey Only 52% of Americans sought medical care for a concerning health problem during the pandemic, according to the survey conducted by the Cleveland Clinic. Among patients with heart disease, 63% did.
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End of Pandemic Can't Come Soon Enough for 2 Arizona Towns In a place where the Hayden-Winkelman Unified School district is the heart of the community, everybody knew Kimberley Lopez Chavez Byrd, who taught several generations of students. Byrd died in June after ...
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COVID-19 vaccine skepticism lurks in town famous for syphilis study Dr. Marty Makary explains what's happening with distribution at the state level on 'Fox & Friends First.' TUSKEGEE, Ala. – Lucenia Dunn spent the early days ...
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Dallas County Adds 1617 COVID-19 Cases, 12 Deaths Sunday The total of confirmed and probable cases in the county is now more than 253,000 in Dallas County since March 2020. Published 28 mins ago • Updated 28 mins ago. Dallas County is reporting 1,617 new COVID-19 cases Sunday along with 12 more deaths ...
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Omega-3s From Fish Might Curb Asthma in Kids, But Genes Matter By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Consuming greater amounts of certain omega-3 fatty acids found in fish may reduce the risk of asthma in kids -- but only those with a common ...
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Essential workers get lost in the vaccine scrum as states prioritize the elderly As a warehouse manager at a Food 4 Less in Los Angeles, Norma Leiva greets delivery drivers hauling in soda and chips and oversees staff stocking shelves and helping customers. At night, she returns to the home she shares with her elderly mother-in-law, ...
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COVID-19 vaccines effective against current variants, but new one may prove more difficult, Inglesby says Inglesby downplayed concerns about recently discovered variants, particularly the South Africa variant which has reportedly displayed resistance to some treatments and possibly the vaccine itself. "What we're seeing is that in the variant that ...
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COVID-19 in Florida: January marks deadliest month The Florida Department of Health reported 119 more resident deaths on Sunday along with 7,788 new positive cases. To date, 1,721,377 people have been infected statewide and 26,479 Florida residents have died.
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Riverside County COVID-19 Report On Friday, health officials reported 1,805 newly confirmed coronavirus cases and 33 additional virus-related deaths, while the number of hospitalizations continued to decline. Subscribe.
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Mood tracking: Creative ways to chart your feelings For instance, you can wake up feeling calm and then get news in a phone call that instantly makes you anxious or sad. On the flip side, receiving a gift basket or a dozen roses can spark joy and brighten an otherwise bleak day.
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As January Nears Its End, California Flu Cases Remain Low CALIFORNIA — As the first month of 2021 draws to a close, the number of confirmed influenza cases in California and others remain unseasonably low, according to the latest weekly report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Time to team up and tackle Long COVID, says WHO expert Little is known about why some people, after coming through the acute phase of COVID-19, struggle to recover and suffer ongoing symptoms including tiredness, brain fog, cardiac and neurological disorders. At this ...
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Tuskegee, home of infamous syphilis study, faces COVID vaccine skepticism Lucenia Dunn spent the early days of the coronavirus pandemic encouraging people to wear masks and keep a safe distance from each other in Tuskegee, a mostly Black city where the government once used unsuspecting African American men as guinea ...
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Not Yet Desperate, Japan and South Korea Plod Toward Vaccinations The slower pace gives the East Asian countries a chance to learn from mistakes elsewhere but also poses risks as more contagious and perhaps deadlier variants of the virus emerge.
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SC's deadliest week ends with more than 2600 new cases of COVID-19 reported Sunday Health officials confirmed 2,649 new positive tests, and with 23 more coronavirus-related fatalities the confirmed death toll rose to 468 in the past seven days, according to DHEC. Since testing began in March, ...
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Anxiety grows as long-term care awaits COVID-19 vaccines The major drugstore chains tasked with giving shots in these places are far along in vaccinating nursing home residents and staff. But some other types of group residences won't receive first doses until mid-February or later, despite being among the top ...
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Early functional SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell response may prevent severe infection Antibodies and T cells are components of the human immune system that directly act against viral infections and eliminate infected cells. A new study by scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, provides evidence that an early presence of ...
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New coronavirus variants keep popping up. Here's what we know about them Scientists are not surprised to see the coronavirus changing and evolving — it's what viruses do, after all. And with so much unchecked spread across the US and other parts of the world, the virus is getting plenty of opportunity to do just that.
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Bleeding gums may be a sign you need more vitamin C in your diet Current advice from the America Dental Association tells you that if your gums bleed, make sure you are brushing and flossing twice a day because it could be a sign of gingivitis, an early stage of periodontal disease. And that might be true. So if you are ...
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Getting a coronavirus vaccine in the Bay Area? Here's what to expect Residents 65 and older and some essential workers — including educators, food and agricultural workers, and first responders — may receive inoculations now. Individual counties may be inoculating only a subset of those groups based on the limitations in ...
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Anxiety grows as long-term care awaits COVID-19 vaccines Frustration is building over the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations at long-term care sites, where some homes still await first shots while fending off a virus that can devastate their residents. The major drugstore chains tasked with giving shots in these places are ...
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Nerve Drug Might Curb Spinal Cord Damage, Mouse Study Suggests By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The nerve pain drug gabapentin might reduce damage after a spinal cord injury, research in mice suggests. The drug prevented harmful structural changes in ...
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Flu cases 'almost completely wiped out' this winter in England, but COVID-19 continues to soar New data published by the Sunday Times shows the prevalence of flu is around 95% lower than normal. Experts believe cases are low due to ongoing lockdown restrictions and social distancing measures.
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Mysterious untreatable fevers once devastated whole families. This doctor discovered what caused them It's an ancient disease that may have evolved to confer protection against the plague — but until 20 years ago, it had scientists and doctors flummoxed. They couldn't explain why those afflicted, often in the same family, had recurring fevers, abdominal pain, ...
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We Need a Better Vaccination Plan We've got the first miles under our belt in the long drive to achieving herd immunity. But we need to reboot with a vaccine 2.0 distribution plan to get us on a better path. The coronavirus now poses the highest risk ever. Although there have been promising ...
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UF Health discovers possible risk factor for COVID-19 Joseph Katz, a professor of oral medicine in the UF College of Dentistry, began conducting the research because he wondered whether vitamin D deficiency influenced the onset of COVID-19. The study took about three months ...
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Iowa reports another 5 COVID-19 deaths, 292 confirmed coronavirus cases Sarah Ekstrand, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Department of Public Health, said the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reads death certificates to see whether a doctor determined COVID-19 contributed to each death. That ...
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Vaccination demand remains high as new COVID-19 strain cases grow in South Florida MIAMI – The race to vaccinate South Floridians continues as a highly transmissible strain of COVID-19 continues to spread across the state. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are now 125 cases of the B117 strain, also known as the UK ...
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Britain Detects South African Variant in People With No Travel Links LONDON (Reuters) - Two people in southern England have tested positive for the South African variant of the coronavirus without having any links to people who have travelled recently, prompting "surge testing" to contain the outbreak. Residents in parts of ...
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Florida adds 7788 coronavirus cases, 120 deaths Sunday The state processed just under 166,000 tests Saturday, resulting in a single-day positivity rate of 5.54 percent. Vaccinations: In Florida, 1,678,944 people have been vaccinated as of Sunday, an increase of 27,578 ...
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Epidemiologist Warns a Covid-19 'Hurricane Is Coming' With New Variant Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm issued dire warnings about the potential spread of the new, more contagious Covid-19 variants, saying that they could produce a surge of cases in the United States to levels "we have not seen yet in this country.".
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COVID-19 vaccine ruled out as cause of death in California man Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC director and Resolve to Save Lives CEO, stresses the importance of protective health measures, argues COVID-19 vaccines are having 'better results than we could have hoped.'.
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Britain and Brazil coronavirus variants now found in the Bay Area The spread of the coronavirus mutations comes as California is turning over vaccine distribution to the Oakland-based health insurance company Blue Shield, with assistance from Kaiser Permanente, in an effort to speed up what has been among the slowest ...
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COVID vaccine live updates: Here's what to know in North Carolina on Feb. 1 As of Friday, the latest day for which data are available, 8.5% of coronavirus tests were positive. Health officials say the number should be about 5% to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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SC's deadliest week ends with more than 2600 new cases of COVID-19 reported Sunday Health officials confirmed 2,649 new positive tests, and with 23 more coronavirus-related fatalities the confirmed death toll rose to 468 in the past seven days, according to DHEC. Since testing began in ...
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Maine sees fewest new coronavirus cases in months and no deaths Still, Sunday's report remains well above the level Maine saw prior to the surge in virus transmission that began in late October. The statewide death toll remains at 590. It was the first time in the ...
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Trauma, Resilience, Anxiety Disorders, and PTSD Stress occurring early in life in the form of traumatic events is a transdiagnostic risk factor for developing psychopathology, whereas posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that is specifically defined as a maladaptive response to traumatic events.
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Will double masking help protect you as COVID cases increase, new variants discovered? Dr. Anthony Fauci chimed in about the concept of double masking amid ongoing COVID-19 concerns.
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