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Michigan Officials Wrestle With How To Ethically Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines State officials want to decrease the number of deaths, so Michigan is relying on a formula recommended by the Centers for Disease Control called the Social Vulnerability Index to help guide its vaccine distribution. The index — ordinarily ...
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For Some COVID Long-Haulers, Symptom Relief After a Vaccine The result of doing so, she says, was a heart problem. Long after her infection, Finley was regularly experiencing a heart rate of 120 to 130 beats per minute, a condition known as tachycardia. She tried prescribed medication to reduce it, but says it left her ...
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What the next CDC guidelines for the fully vaccinated could look like (CNN) Some celebrated when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came out with its long-awaited guidelines for the fully vaccinated Monday. Others were hoping for more, especially about travel. With daily new cases hovering around the ...
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What can fully vaccinated people do? Dr. Leana Wen's advice White House Senior Adviser for Covid Response Andy Slavitt told CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta we should expect to see more guidance on how to return to normal as we see the rate of vaccination increase.
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Report: Pandemic Exposed a Public Health System 'Hollowed Out' From Lack of Funding and Neglect When the coronavirus pandemic raced across the U.S. in March 2020, life as we knew it changed almost completely, seemingly in an instant. Schools and offices shut down to stop the virus from spreading. Hospital intensive care units filled to overflowing with ...
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COVID Patients Getting Too Many Antibiotics? This discrepancy between antibiotic administration and bacterial infection concerned the study's authors. They cited other recent studies finding pandemic-era antibiotic overuse and noted that this trend threatens to amplify antimicrobial resistance, as a ...
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US airline industry pushes back on CDC guidance that says vaccinated people should avoid travel WHO's director-general warned against squandering the progress made fighting Covid-19, nearly one year after the UN health agency declared a pandemic. Italy has become the sixth country to surpass 100,000 Covid-19 ...
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America could soon be swimming in COVID-19 vaccines: The shift from scarcity to surplus could bring its own problems In just two months, the United States could be swimming in COVID-19 vaccine. Literally swimming. The 500 million 0.5 or 0.3-milliliter doses expected to be shipped by then are enough to fill a 55,000-gallon swimming pool. As hard as it is to imagine now as ...
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How Long Does It Take to Receive COVID-19 Test Results? The amount of time it takes to get the results of your COVID-19 test depends on what type of test you get and which clinic you go to. You may get your results within minutes, or it may take a few days. Many clinics are experiencing backlogs that have led to ...
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Could Pollen Be Driving COVID-19 Infections? Some scientists say they've noticed a pattern to the recurring waves of SARS-CoV-2 infections around the globe: as pollen levels increased in outdoor air in 31 countries, COVID-19 cases accelerated.
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Mix of Clouds and Sun at Senate COVID Hearing Vaccine equity, global vaccination, and support for strained healthcare workers were on the agenda at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing Tuesday. In her opening remarks, Patty Murray (D-Wash.) noted that the American ...
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Apple, Harvard release early data from women's health study to help 'destigmatize menstruation' The study could help advance the science around women's health and help destigmatize menstruation, according to researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "The preliminary data we are sharing today suggests women across ...
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Louisiana Widens Vaccine Access for Preexisting Conditions BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the one-year anniversary of its first confirmed COVID-19 case, Louisiana is widening COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to anyone 16 years and older who has among two dozen high-risk medical conditions, Gov. John Bel Edwards ...
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Pollen Peril: Sneezin' Season May Up COVID Risk TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- It's that time of year when flowers and trees bloom freely and pollen makes the lives of many miserable. But new research reveals a hidden risk: It could also make you more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection.
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VDH: 589374 total cases of COVID-19 in Virginia, 9849 deaths The number of newly reported cases since yesterday is 1,246. Virginia's death total from the virus is at 9,849, 59 more than yesterday. The total number of ...
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Is It Safe to Have Surgery Soon After a COVID Diagnosis? "We found that patients operated [on] 0 to 6 weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection diagnosis are at increased risk of postoperative death, as were patients with ongoing symptoms at the time of surgery," said study author Dr. Dmitri Nepogodiev, from the University of ...
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Vaginal Ring Could Protect Women From HIV for 3 Months It assessed two formulations of a vaginal ring that releases the antiretroviral dapivirine in the vagina over the course of 90 days. One version contained 100 milligrams (mg) of dapivirine and the other contained 200 mg.
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Team discovers new organelle involved in cancer metastasis Some of Princeton's leading cancer researchers were startled to discover that what they thought was a straightforward investigation into how cancer spreads through the body—metastasis—turned up evidence of liquid-liquid phase separations: the new field ...
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Global Study Supports Eating Fish for Heart Health By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, March. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For people with heart disease, eating fish twice a week may be a lifesaver. New worldwide research shows that two 6-ounce servings a week of oily fish, ...
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AHA News: Voucher Program Makes Healthy Eating Easier for Food-Insecure People TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- As soon as Joseph Angelo enrolled in Vouchers 4 Veggies, he started to replace processed foods with fruits and vegetables.
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Capitalizing on measles vaccine's successful history to protect against SARS-CoV-2 A new SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate, developed by giving a key protein's gene a ride into the body while encased in a measles vaccine, has been shown to produce a strong immune response and prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and lung disease in ...
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PrEP Implant May Protect Against HIV for a Year Pharmacokinetic data indicated that an implant that elutes islatravir, an antiretroviral agent, could protect people at-risk of contracting HIV for at least a year, positioning it as a potential form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), researchers reported. In a trial in ...
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5 benefits of apple cider vinegar (and a few duds), according to experts Lowering blood sugar. What's the most popular use for apple cider vinegar? If a simple internet search is any measure, it involves diabetes. Registered dietitian Carol Johnston has been studying the effects of acetic acid, the main component of vinegar, on ...
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More People Urged to Get Screened for Lung Cancer The Task Force recommends annual screening for adults aged 50 to 80 years who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years. Achieving ...
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In Pancreatic Cancer, New Biomarker May Predict Benefit of Tumor-Penetrating Peptide Hunkered behind a dense layer of fibrotic tissue, pancreatic tumors stubbornly resist the delivery of therapeutic molecules. Yet this barrier, this desmoplastic tumor tissue, can be penetrated by iRGD, a nine-amino-acid cyclic peptide. In experiments with ...
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CDC Data Strengthens Link of Obesity, Severe COVID March 9, 2021 -- Officials have previously linked being overweight or obese to a greater risk for more severe COVID-19. A report this week from the CDC adds numbers and some nuance to the association. Data from nearly 150,000 U.S. adults hospitalized ...
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Very few severe allergic reactions tied to mRNA COVID vaccines Acute allergic reactions occurred in 2.10% but anaphylaxis in only 0.025% of employees of two Boston hospitals who received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA.
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Live updates: MDH opens enforcement action against 4 labs, alleging failure to report data ST PAUL, Minn. — Tuesday, March 9. Walz expands COVID vaccinations to 1.8 million Minnesotans starting Wednesday; Pop-up COVID testing site to open in Carver County following outbreak involving sports, young athletes; CDC says people vaccinated ...
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Man accidentally gets 2 COVID-19 shots in one day, goes into shock A 91-year-old man in Ohio went into shock after he accidentally received two COVID-19 vaccine doses in one day, according to news reports. The man, Victor Smith, received his first shot on Jan. 22; but later he became fatigued from the shot — a known side ...
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Anabolic Steroids Could Do Long-Term Harm to Testicles: Study WEDNESDAY, March 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Men who use anabolic steroids may be doing serious damage to their testicular function, new research warns. And the damage may last long after they stop. Illegal use of the drugs is not uncommon among ...
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S. African Variant Challenges Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines March 9, 2021 -- The Pfizer/ and Moderna vaccines don't work as well against the coronavirus variant first discovered in South Africa as they do against the dominant virus strain first seen in United Kingdom, a new study says. In the study, 10 blood samples ...
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Austin woman sent husband, 28, here to get COVID-19 vaccination Both were vaccinated, despite only one of them being eligible under the priority groups outlined by Texas state health officials. "I mostly sent them to get vaccines to protect me and for our newborn baby's sake ...
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Gait variability serves as indicator of cognitive dysfunction in AD, other diseases "Abnormal gait is prevalent in established dementia, and can also predict progression from normal cognition, cognitive complaints, and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia syndromes," the researchers wrote. "Although previous ...
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FDA Warns Against Using Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19 The agency says it issued the guidance Friday because of growing interest in the drug as a COVID-19 treatment and multiple reports of patients hospitalized or needing medical support "after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses.".
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Study suggests surgery should be delayed for at least 7 weeks following a COVID-19 diagnosis to reduce mortality risk The study is by the COVIDSurg Collaborative: a global collaboration of over 15,000 surgeons working together to collect a range of data on the COVID-19 pandemic. This study's lead authors are Dr. Dmitri Nepogodiev (Public Health) and Dr. Aneel Bhangu ( ...
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Alaska makes vaccines available to all adults Alaska became the first state in the nation Tuesday to lift all eligibility requirements for adults to get a coronavirus vaccine. Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) announced Tuesday that all individuals who live or work in Alaska and are age 16 and older can get a shot.
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Florida back over 100 resident coronavirus deaths as cases remain under 5k Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that the eligibility for coronavirus vaccines in Florida will be lowered to age 60 from age 65 beginning Monday, March 15.
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Opioid script changes mean well, but have left some people in chronic pain However, changes to medication regulations alone are a one-dimensional strategy to reduce opioid use. Other strategies are needed to support patients, including better patient education and providing patients with other pain management options.
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Orange County sees improvement in COVID-19 transmission rates The Orange County Health Care Agency released data Tuesday that indicates the county is now meeting criteria for the state's less restrictive red tier across three metrics used to track virus transmission. The adjusted daily case rate per ...
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In The '24th Mile' Of A Marathon, Fauci And Collins Reflect On Their Pandemic Year A year ago, everything changed for Americans as a new, highly infectious disease began spreading across the country. Two scientists, longtime friends and colleagues became two of the most public faces of the U.S. efforts to fight what ultimately became the ...
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Could Diphtheria Become Resistant to Vaccines? By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, March 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Diphtheria could once again become a major global health problem due to vaccine and antibiotic resistance, researchers warn. Diphtheria is a highly ...
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Texas can't say how many people are jumping the COVID-19 vaccine line A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccination in Austin. State health officials say vaccine providers can't require Texans to show evidence of an eligible medical condition, which makes "line jumping" difficult to prevent. Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune.
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Covid-19: Sidmouth care home resident dies after after outbreak A resident of a care home has died after an outbreak of coronavirus. Holmesley Care Home in Sidmouth, Devon said a "high number of positive cases" had been confirmed. It said most residents and staff at the home have received their first vaccine dose, and ...
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Austin Public Health works to expand mobile vaccine options for homebound seniors The highly touted program isn't available in Travis County or even in nearby Williamson and Hays Counties. On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott announced 34 counties would be participating in the ...
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Pasadena Postpones Vaccine Clinic Due to Hundreds of Sign-Ups in Registration Link Violation The problems began when a registration link for a COVID-19 vaccination clinic scheduled for Thursday in Pasadena was shared with people who are not eligible for shots. By Jonathan Lloyd, Michelle Valles and Toni Guinyard • Published March 9, 2021 ...
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Seminole sees drop in COVID-19 cases, but officials warn about variants They added, however, that it's still "premature" for the public to start easing mask and social distancing restrictions as highly-contagious variants of the virus continue to spread nationwide and less than one fifth of the county's population has received a vaccine.
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A plant scientist explains why high pollen counts can raise your COVID-19 risk Amherst - A new bee pollination study conducted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and others looks at the effects of flower strips on bee reproduction. Facebook Share.
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More Contagious COVID-19 Variant Surges Ahead Of FL Spring Break There are 3,037 reported cases of the strain in the United States. Every state but Oklahoma, South Dakota and Vermont have reported at least one case of B.1.1.7., according to the CDC.
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Coronavirus Variant From South Africa Detected in Wyoming The Teton County Health Department said on Monday that a sample from a resident who tested positive for COVID-19 in January revealed the variant, the Casper Star-Tribune reported. Health officials said the person, who is yet unidentified, did not travel prior ...
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Study Confirms Very Low Risk of Severe Allergic Reaction to COVID Vaccines TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Severe allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccines are rare and resolve quickly, a new study finds. "The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are the first vaccines of their kind, and they have remarkable efficacy and safety ...
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