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Dr. Fauci On Vaccinations And Biden's 'Refreshing' Approach To COVID-19 Fauci has worked with seven presidents, from Reagan to Biden. Much of his career has been devoted to researching viruses and the immune system. During the AIDS epidemic, he made major contributions to the understanding of ...
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Double Face Masks? N95? Protect Yourself Against New Covid-19 Variants With These Mask Upgrades Experts recommend wearing a cloth mask over a surgical mask. Photo: Ericka Burchett/The Wall Street Journal. What is double masking and why are people talking about it ...
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US virus deaths surpass 450K; daily toll is stubbornly high FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2021, file photo, a hospital worker places a "COVID Patient" sticker on a body bag holding a deceased patient at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in ...
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Covid-19 Vaccine Shortage Sparks Fights Over Who Should Get First Shots As a shortage of Covid-19 shots slows vaccination efforts in the West, groups that haven't been given high priority are increasingly jostling for the right to get immunized first. In most countries that ...
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COVID-19 Pandemic: What We Know About Coronavirus Reinfections Some people who have recovered from COVID-19 can contract an infection again. A new study found a man had a severe case of COVID-19 last April and a mild case 4 months later. Now new SARS-CoV-2 variants have emerged that may circumvent the ...
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If you've had Covid-19, here's what you should know about vaccines, variants and more (CNN) You might be among the more than 26.6 million people in the United States who have had Covid-19 -- and when it comes to coronavirus vaccines, emerging variants or the risk of re-infection, you might have a lot of questions. "We are continuing to ...
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Can Dogs Transmit COVID-19? So, feel free to give the dog a pat on the head, but be sure to wash your hands afterward. Continue reading below to learn more about pets and COVID-19, what to do if you think your pet is sick, and more.
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Can AstraZeneca's Vaccine Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 Virus? In a new—yet to be peer-reviewed—study, the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and its partners at the University of Oxford report that their COVID-19 shot may not only protect against disease but also help to prevent spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Are Covid-19 vaccines safe for cancer patients? Here is what cancer experts say It's a question that has been on the minds of researchers and oncologists long before the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine rollouts began. Although there is a consensus that the vaccines are safe for most cancer patients, according to ...
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Why new coronavirus variants emerge, and what that means for you The devastating spike in new daily COVID-19 cases in the United States has slowly begun to come down, and vaccinations are starting to protect millions of the country's most vulnerable people. But any respite from the pandemic's worst chapter so far could ...
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Covid-19 outbreak at San Quentin was triggered by 'deeply flawed' detainee transfers, watchdog says When Covid-19 spread inside the California Institution for Men in Chino in May, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) decided to transfer some detainees to facilities that were not ...
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Some COVID Vaccine Reactions Could Be Pseudoallergy, Experts Say On January 13, two days after a drive-through vaccination "superstation" opened in San Diego, a cluster of six people were treated for anaphylaxis after they received the Moderna vaccine, leading the California state epidemiologist to recommend pausing the ...
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Vaccines Have Significantly Reduced COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes The nursing home case reduction bodes well for the rest of the country as vaccination programs are expanded, say experts. The situation with COVID-19 and long-term care facilities in the United States ...
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Green Tea, Coffee May Help You Avoid a 2nd Heart Attack New research from Japan finds survivors who drink plenty of green tea may live longer lives. Stroke survivors who drank at least seven cups per day were 62% less likely to die during the study period, ...
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Study Shows Young COVID Survivors Can Get Reinfected THURSDAY, Feb. 4, 2020 (HealthDay) -- Being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 is not a foolproof shield against reinfection, a small preliminary study warns. The finding stems from tracking nearly 3,250 young U.S. Marine recruits between May ...
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Breast cancer tops lung cancer as most diagnosed cancer in the world, new report says Until now, lung cancer had been the most diagnosed in previous reports covering the last two decades, said Hyuna Sung, principal scientist and cancer epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society, who was an author of the paper.
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Across The South, COVID-19 Vaccine Sites Missing From Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods Georgia Washington, 79, can't drive. Whenever she needs to go somewhere, she asks her daughter or her friends to pick her up. She has lived in the northern part of Baton Rouge, a predominantly Black area of Louisiana's capital, since 1973. There aren't ...
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Global Cancer Report Finds Breast Cancer Most Commonly Diagnosed Cancer in 2020 For the first time, female breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, according to the collaborative report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) titled "Global Cancer Statistics 2020.".
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How COVID-19 vaccine rollout compares to smallpox, polio and others in the past In others instances, vaccination appointment no-shows and vaccine hesitancy have created a free-for-all situations where health workers scramble to offload expiring doses to people who want them. And some have criticized Biden's ...
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Cancer patients weren't responding to therapy. Then they got a poop transplant. In the study, scientists collected stool from melanoma patients who responded well to immunotherapy and then transplanted their feces (and microbes) into the guts of 15 patients who had never previously responded to the drugs. After ...
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US virus deaths surpass 450K; daily toll is stubbornly high Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 450,000 on Thursday, and daily deaths remain stubbornly high at more than 3,000 a day, despite falling infections and the arrival of multiple vaccines. Infectious disease specialists expect deaths to start ...
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Here's Why the US Won't Follow Britain in Delaying Second COVID Vax Dose As Great Britain continues to stretch out the interval between the first and second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to 12 weeks, data out Wednesday seem to support doing so -- but concerns remain. Physicians and public health experts have questioned ...
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Covid-19: Broxbourne residents praised for test take up Hertfordshire County Council said more than 6,000 tests had been collected or taken even before door-to-door delivery started on Thursday. Public health director Jim McManus said residents were "so ...
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Daily Green Tea, Coffee Tied to Lower Risk for 2nd Heart Attack, Stroke Stroke survivors who drank at least seven cups per day were 62% less likely to die during the study period, versus non-drinkers. Similarly, the risk was cut by 53% among heart attack survivors who downed that much tea.
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Very Little Spread of COVID at Kids' Day Camps The Duke University team identified just 10 children and nine staff members with confirmed infections. Only two patients were possibly infected at camp, while all of the other patients were infected outside of camp, according to the study published online Feb. 3 ...
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Emil Freireich, a pioneer of chemotherapy and a 'towering figure in oncology,' dies at 93 Dr. Freireich was a seminal name in the modern history of cancer — an iconoclast who took on patients whose cases other doctors considered hopeless and, by dint of determination, experimentation and more than occasional confrontation, vastly expanded the ...
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Book excerpt: "Entangled Life," on how fungi shape our future Many of the most dramatic events on Earth have been – and continue to be –a result of fungal activity. Plants only made it out of the water around five hundred million years ago because of their collaboration with fungi, which served as their root systems for tens ...
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AHA News: Upstate New York DA's Discomfort Wasn't Jet Lag – It Was a Heart Attack THURSDAY, Feb. 4, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- David Soares finished a set of weightlifting during an early morning workout at a friend's home gym in Albany, New York, when he found himself unable to catch his breath. He sat down but it didn't ...
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Gov. Cox: Utahns 65 and older can get COVID-19 vaccine in March; 1273 new cases, 14 deaths reported Thursday Utah's weekly allocation of the vaccine could potentially quadruple by March if two other pharmaceutical companies are able to distribute their vaccines by that time, Cox said. The state's allocation is about 50,000 this week, already up significantly from around ...
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US coronavirus deaths surpass 455000; daily toll is stubbornly high Infectious disease specialists expect deaths to start dropping soon, after new cases hit a peak right around the beginning of the year.
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Live updates: MDH urges caution about new COVID variants as vaccinations ramp up ST PAUL, Minn. — Thursday, Feb. 4. Minnesota has 18 cases of two new COVID variants; Health officials warn against travel, Super Bowl parties; Minnesota to receive 83K+ vaccine doses next week; Minneapolis community vaccination clinic opens; More ...
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NJ reports 101 new COVID deaths, 2503 positive tests. More than 876K vaccine doses administered. New Jersey has now lost 21,793 residents in the nearly 11-month outbreak - 19,606 confirmed fatalities and 2,187 considered probable. The death toll for January was 2,377 confirmed fatalities, the most in any month since May.
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Repeated testing for COVID-19 is vital, economic and public health analysis shows As a new presidential administration takes steps to examine options to control the spread of COVID-19 through increased testing, epidemiologists at The University of Texas at Austin and other institutions have a new analysis that shows the value of having all ...
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Coronavirus: LA County Targets Vulnerable Populations For Vaccine LOS ANGELES, CA — Los Angeles County health officials said Wednesday they plan to make targeted efforts in coming weeks to get COVID-19 vaccinations to particularly vulnerable residents, but while the vaccine program is progressing, there are ...
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LSU Health sets the record straight on COVID-19 vaccine Dr. Maroun Mhanna, professor and chairman of the pediatrics department at LSU Health Shreveport, and his colleagues addressed the public during a noon conference Wednesday to "set the record straight" regarding COVID-19 and vaccinations. Mhanna ...
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Female breast cancer passes lung cancer as most commonly diagnosed worldwide The report, authored by scientists from the American Cancer Society and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, said 2.3 million cases of female breast cancer were diagnosed in 2020, accounting for an estimated 11.7% of all new cancer diagnoses ...
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Dr. Emil Freireich, 'the father of modern leukemia therapy,' dies at 93 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center released the following about Freireich's passing: Emil J Freireich, M.D., a trailblazing oncologist who developed groundbreaking therapies for childhood leukemia and came to be recognized as a founding ...
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UK study will test if getting doses of two different COVID-19 vaccines is effective If effective, this might provide more flexibility in vaccine rollout. Mixing vaccines might also give a person better protection, scientists say. England's deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, said learning ...
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Climate Change May Have Helped Emergence of New Coronavirus By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Feb. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- It's a link few might have considered, but a new study indicates that climate change may have prompted the COVID-19 pandemic. Rising temperatures caused by ...
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If healthy people are purposefully infected with COVID-19 for the sake of science, they should be paid Multidisciplinary team of international experts suggests participants should receive a "substantial" amount, be paid ethically. Healthy people volunteering to be infected with SARS-CoV-2, in order to help scientists better understand how to tackle the virus, ...
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How SARS-CoV-2 might become endemic Endemic viruses are those that have constant presence within a geographical area. Such viruses are all around us, though they vary by location. Examples in Europe and North America include the rhinovirus (a cause of the common cold) and influenza virus, ...
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US rushes to catch up in the race to detect mutant viruses Clinical lab scientist Selam Bihon processes upper respiratory samples from patients suspected of having COVID-19 at the Stanford Clinical Virology Laboratory on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Palo Alto, Calif.
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How Long Beach, California, is getting vaccines to the hard-hit Latino community Although COVID-19 infections and deaths in California are finally on the decline, Latinos continue to make up a disproportionate share of deaths in Los Angeles County. Long Beach, California, Mayor Robert Garcia knows this disparity too well. Garcia, who is ...
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5-star certified businesses try to woo leery Colorado patrons February 4, 2021 at 10:59 a.m.. By Christie Aschwanden, Kaiser Health News. GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — On a sunny Saturday this month, Ruth ...
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People infected with COVID-19 have a higher risk of dying after a cardiac arrest This is the first detailed report of characteristics and outcomes in COVID-19 patients who suffer cardiac arrest. The researchers analysed data from the Swedish Registry for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (SRCR), which is a nationwide registry that started to ...
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New COVID-19 study could help 'fine-tune' vaccine priority lists, predict mortality Much of the debate around vaccine prioritization hinges on one question: Who faces the greatest risk of dying if they become infected with COVID-19? Thus far, it is a question without a definitive answer. Age is one way to gauge risk, with the Centers for ...
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Minnesota health officials discourage Super Bowl parties "This is probably not the year to have a Super Bowl party," said Kris Ehresmann, infectious disease director at the Minnesota Department of Health. "And fortunately we don't have to feel bad because the Vikings aren't in the Super Bowl, so it takes some of the ...
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An Aging Population Makes Alzheimer's a More Pressing Concern—for Health Care and the Economy When Covid-19 hit, Rosanne Corcoran went into lockdown mode, creating a cocoon around her family and dismissing the part-time paid caregiver who had helped her care for her mother, Rose, who has Alzheimer's. But for months, Rose has stayed up all ...
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Meticore Reviews (2021 Updated) Diet Pills Supplement with Real Ingredients or Side Effects? Meticore is the latest edition to the list of weight loss products that take a natural approach to improving the fat-burning process in the body, so that effective weight loss may occur. It works on the restoration of a sleeping metabolism – a fairly common problem ...
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Experts question Utah report that says mental distress hasn't significantly increased during the pandemic (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bruce Gentry, who lives in Provo, was diagnosed with depression in 2019 and said the pandemic has taken away some of the activities, like singing in a club, that he used to cope with his symptoms.
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