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'What's the Point?' Young People's Despair Deepens as Covid-19 Crisis Drags On Experts paint a grim picture of the struggle with lockdown isolation — a "mental health pandemic" that should be treated as seriously as containing the coronavirus.
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Number of Israelis reinfected by South African variant rises to 3, raising concerns TEL AVIV — Israel's Health Ministry said Sunday that two Israelis who had recently recovered from the coronavirus have been reinfected by the variant first identified in South Africa, making a total of three such cases. Support our journalism. Subscribe today.
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The Latest: LA County says medical center broke virus rules Los Angeles County officials say that the Northridge Hospital Medical Center violated county rules when it provided coronavirus vaccines to teachers and staff at the Wesley School in North Hollywood. By The Associated Press. February 13, 2021, 6:35 PM.
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'I put my life on hold:' Disability groups plead for vaccine Suzy Lindeberg poses with her 20-year-old son John on a hockey rink, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Stillwater, Minn. John, who has Down Syndrome, can ...
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Kids are going without dental care during the pandemic That's not good, said pediatric dentist and American Dental Association spokesperson Dr. Jonathan Shenkin. "Delays in preventative care could result in kids developing more tooth decay," he said. "The problem with tooth ...
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Fact check: COVID-19 vaccines in the UK have been tested and authorised for use A Facebook video making false claims about the novel coronavirus and authorised COVID-19 vaccines has been shared online. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS. The 13-minute clip was posted on Feb. 10, 2021 (here) and includes numerous opinions and ...
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COVID-19 Shots Might Be Tweaked if Variants Get Worse The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations — and regulators are looking to flu as a blueprint if and when the shots need an update. "It's not really something you can sort of flip a switch, ...
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Guinea confirms at least 3 dead from Ebola, first cases in 5 years All seven positive cases attended the funeral of a nurse in Goueke on Feb. 1 and later showed Ebola symptoms including a fever, diarrhea, vomiting, said the ministry statement. The government has ...
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Guinea Faces First Ebola Outbreak In Years Five years after it was declared Ebola-free, officials in Guinea declared an outbreak Sunday after at least three people died in recent weeks from the Ebola virus. Four more people were confirmed to be infected. Health officials have traced this latest outbreak ...
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How activists pushed to include people with HIV in COVID-19 vaccine trials For decades FDA guidelines have limited gay and bisexual men from donating blood "to reduce the transmission of HIV by blood." Marc Wagner is ...
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Covid: Vaccine given to 15 million in UK as PM hails 'extraordinary feat' It comes as the government is expected to announce on Monday it has met its pledge to offer a jab to everyone in the top four priority groups in the UK. The rollout is ...
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You Think The US Has Vaccine Issues? 130 Countries Haven't Even Started Vaccinating In some countries, citizens are grumbling about the inefficient rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. It's unclear exactly when doses will be available. Websites for appointments keep crashing. Lines are long. And then there are the 130 countries that "are yet to ...
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Fact check: Reports of adverse effects in US database aren't confirmed to be linked to vaccination A video is being shared on social media that sees a presenter examining data from a US system that collects reports of adverse health events that follow the administration of a vaccine. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS. The video (here) features data collected ...
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Ebola: [Ebola in Guinea] outbreak don make dem declare Ebola epidemic afta first deaths since 2016 Dem - and four odas - bin dey sick wit diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding afta dem go di burial of one nurse. Officials tok say dem go buy new developed vaccines through di World Health ...
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Guinea declares new Ebola epidemic, five years after country's deadliest outbreak DAKAR, Senegal — Public health officials in Guinea declared a new epidemic of Ebola on Sunday after recording seven cases and three deaths — the first resurgence since the hemorrhagic fever devastated the West African nation and two neighbors from ...
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Guinea Declares Ebola Outbreak With at Least 3 Deaths Health officials promised rapid delivery of vaccines and other epidemic-fighting measures after confirming seven cases in the country's southeast.
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AHA News: Lower Your Sodium, and Blood Pressure Will Follow MONDAY, Feb. 15, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Reducing sodium intake by any amount can lower blood pressure over the long term – and may benefit everyone, including people with normal blood pressure, new research shows.
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Covid: Rabbi urges pause to ultra-Orthodox wedding parties A senior rabbi in London's strictly Orthodox Jewish community has condemned those holding large celebrations, after police broke up a 150-strong wedding party in the area last month. The BBC has been sent a video of guests dancing at another wedding in ...
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1798 new COVID cases, 15 deaths announced as lab-reporting issue again affects NJ numbers The number of coronavirus patients in New Jersey's hospitals fell for the 10th straight day, dropping to 2,449 on Saturday night. That's down 35% from a recent peak of 3,802 on Dec. 23.
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Should Pregnant Women Get the COVID Vaccine, Other Pregnancy Health Questions The larger problem, of course, is a lack of data: pregnant women were excluded from clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines. With no data on the impact of the vaccines on developing fetuses, many pregnant couples have opted for a wait-and-see approach.
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Japan formally approves its first COVID-19 vaccine Japan has formally approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and says it will start nationwide inoculations within days, but months behind the U.S. and many other countries. By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press. February 14, 2021, 7:16 AM. • 3 min read.
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Not the Flu: COVID Death Risk Is 3.5 Times That of Influenza "We can now say definitively that COVID-19 is much more severe than seasonal influenza," said study author Dr. Amol Verma, a researcher in the School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
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Batch of homegrown coronavirus mutations seen in US (CNN) Researchers said Sunday they have identified a batch of similar troubling mutations in coronavirus samples circulating in the United States. They've not only drawn attention to them; they've come up with a better shorthand for referring to them. They've ...
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UK coronavirus variant found in US could be deadlier, scientists say The variant, known as B.1.1.7, is likely about 30% to 70% more deadly than the original strain, scientists said in the study, which drew from multiple databases across the country.
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New test to help fight deadly melanoma Researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have developed a prototype test that can help identify if patients with deadly metastasised melanoma are likely to benefit from immunotherapy. Details about the test and the study are being ...
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The COVID-19 vaccine brings optimism at a bleak time, but post-vaccination fears about what's safe persist The coronavirus pandemic has stolen a precious year from Abby Rosenblum and her mother. After the adult family home in Seattle's Blue Ridge neighborhood where her 87-year-old mother, Anne Adams, lives barred visitors last spring because of COVID-19, ...
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Arizona reports 1947 new COVID-19 cases and 30 more deaths This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases released the first images ...
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Scientists look to Twin Cities sewers to find COVID variants Some of the best evidence for detecting early signs of new COVID strains in Minnesota is being flushed right down the toilet. But scientists at the Metropolitan Council and the University of Minnesota's Genomics Center have started work to detect new strains ...
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Coronavirus patient believed to be world's first reinfected by South African variant is in critical condition More than 100 days later, he developed symptoms and tested positive yet again. Sequencing revealed several mutations characteristic of the B.1.351 variant, altering the surface spike proteins. A week later, the man's condition worsened and he required ...
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LA County Reports Lower COVID-19 Numbers Over Holiday Weekend LOS ANGELES, CA — Los Angeles County reported 1,936 new cases of COVID-19 and 82 additional deaths Sunday, as officials said the relatively lower numbers may reflect reporting delays over the weekend. The number of coronavirus patients in county ...
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Researchers uncover how mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike could lead to greater infectivity Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have compared the original SARS-CoV-2 spike protein with a mutated version which arose last spring. They have found structural differences which could help to explain why the mutated version remains the dominant ...
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A Show About the AIDS Era, Just in Time for the COVID Era Weeks before his latest drama, "It's a Sin," was set to air, the British showrunner Russell T. Davies lay awake in bed, convinced that he'd made a terrible mistake. The series, which follows a group of friends in the early years of the Aids crisis, had wrapped in ...
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Rwanda says begins COVID-19 vaccinations KIGALI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Rwanda said on Sunday it has commenced COVID-19 vaccinations with limited supplies of vaccines acquired through unnamed international partners and said the programme had started with frontline healthcare workers.
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Kids are going without dental care during the pandemic, survey finds That's not good, said pediatric dentist and American Dental Association spokesperson Dr. Jonathan Shenkin. "Delays in preventative care could result in kids developing more tooth decay," he said. "The problem with tooth ...
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5 must-know tips for safely wearing a mask over facial hair If you think of the strands of your facial hair as thread or yarn, your beard would be closer to a knit sweater than a tightly-woven cotton t-shirt, leaving enough gaps for particles potentially carrying COVID-19 to make it through to or from your nose and mouth.
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High-risk Vermonters are on hold for vaccine. They say they can't wait any longer. Piper Harrell was sure her husband, Peter Goetz, would get Covid vaccine. He had diabetes, after all, one of the 10 preexisting conditions listed by the state Department of Health as putting people at ...
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State reports 19 new cases of UK coronavirus variant, bringing total to 29 The variant, which is more easily spread than the common strain of COVID-19, caused a rapid surge of cases in the UK and other countries, as well as in California and Florida.
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San Diego County Reports 568 COVID-19 Cases, 28 Deaths As Vaccine Shortage Hits Eight community outbreaks were reported Sunday, bringing the total over the past week to 62. There were 255 cases associated with the recent outbreaks. Hospitalizations were up 27 and patients moved to an ICU unit were ...
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The Big Number: Drinking 1 or more cups of caffeinated coffee could reduce your heart failure risk The finding that links heart failure and coffee consumption stems from the analysis of three major studies on heart disease that, together, had followed 21,361 U.S. adults for at least 10 years.
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Virus may never go away but could change into mild annoyance In this an. 24, 2021, file photo, people stand near a sign as they wait in line to receive the first of two doses of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 at a one-day vaccination clinic set up in an Amazon.com facility in Seattle and operated by Virginia Mason ...
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What You Need to Know About Ebola as New Outbreak Reported in Guinea Health authorities in the west African nation of Guinea have declared a new outbreak of Ebola—the first known resurgence of the disease in the region since an outbreak that killed more than 11,300 people between 2013 and 2016. Officials reported seven ...
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Israeli study shows Pfizer vaccine 94 percent effective Israel's largest healthcare provider said Sunday a study of more than half a million fully vaccinated Israelis indicated the Pfizer/BioNTech jab gave 94 percent protection against COVID-19. Clalit Health Services said that in a groundbreaking project its ...
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Kaiser says Pfizer vaccine likely not cause of California woman's death A woman with a history of heart-related illness died shortly after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Cal Poly Pomona Friday, Feb. 12, though it was not believed her death was related to the vaccine, authorities said.
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Guinea Confirms 3 Dead From Ebola, First Cases Since 2016 CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Health officials in Guinea on Sunday confirmed that at least three people have died from Ebola there, the first cases declared since it was one of three West African nations to fight the world's deadliest Ebola epidemic that ended five ...
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COVID-19 May Never Go Away, Could Change into Mild Annoyance FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, a person receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Mecca, Calif. Scientists say it's still too early to predict the future of the coronavirus, but many doubt it will ever go away entirely. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File).
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Zinc, Vitamin C Won't Help Against COVID-19 MONDAY, Feb. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Despite their reputation for boosting the powers of your immune system, a new study reports that vitamin C and zinc supplements don't help COVID-19 patients recover from their illness. Giving one or the other, ...
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Minnesota Reports 779 New COVID-19 Cases, 7 New Deaths MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota health officials on Sunday confirmed 779 new COVID-19 cases and seven new deaths due to complications from the coronavirus. The update lifted the total number of cases to 473,567 and the cumulative number of deaths ...
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Zinc, vitamin C won't help against COVID-19 Despite their reputation for boosting the powers of your immune system, a new study reports that vitamin C and zinc supplements don't help COVID-19 patients recover from their illness. Giving one or the other, or a combination of both, to patients didn't ...
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Guinea Declares New Ebola Outbreak The 2013-2016 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa started in Nzerekore, the proximity of which to busy borders hampered efforts to contain the virus. It went on to kill at least 11,300 people, with the vast majority of cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Gray area in California vaccine eligibility list could benefit those with underlying conditions SAN FRANCISCO -- On February 12th, California Health Director Dr. Mark Ghaly announced that people from the ages of 16 to 64 who are severely disabled or have chronic health conditions will be prioritized for future COVID-19 vaccines. The eligibility ...
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