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Should You Be Concerned About Blood Clots, Bleeding and the AZ-Vaccine? There is no evidence so far of a link between the AstraZeneca shots and a few new cases in Europe of serious illness and deaths. But investigations are underway.
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Millions more Americans can now get Covid-19 vaccines, including teachers in all 50 states (CNN) There's lots of great news about Covid-19 vaccines and one major catch. First, the good news: -- A record-high 2.4 million vaccine doses are going into arms each day, according to the latest seven-day average of daily vaccinations. -- About 11.5% of ...
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COVID cases plummet 83% among nursing home staffers despite vaccine hesitancy Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dreaded the danger of going to work in the pandemic. When vaccines became available in December, she jumped at the chance to get one. Months later, it appears that ...
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How to Debunk Misinformation about COVID, Vaccines and Masks But Fauci isn't on your family Zoom call when a cousin mistakenly asserts that the CDC has found that wearing a mask makes you more likely to get COVID-19. Nor is Gupta at the ready when your friend's daughter wonders whether the COVID vaccine contains ...
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What if you had your choice of COVID-19 vaccine? The differences are small but they do exist. Beyond that, there are small trade-offs when it comes to the current vaccines. In general, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines require two doses and are somewhat more effective. Johnson & Johnson requires one dose and is somewhat less likely to cause ...
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'Race Gap' in Heart Health Has Changed Little in 20 Years "The new findings are likely related to lack of access to primary and specialty care and even hospitals in rural areas," said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor of cardiology and preventive medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in ...
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Coronavirus evolution in bats may have resulted in highly efficient human pathogen Researchers in the UK, the US, and Belgium have found that while the SARS-CoV-2 virus has undergone significant changes in its evolutionary history, those changes likely occurred while the virus was still found mainly in bats, resulting in a "relatively ...
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Extent of COVID-19 vaccine waste remains largely unknown NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As millions continue to wait their turn for the COVID-19 vaccine, small but steady amounts of the precious doses have gone to waste across the country. It's a heartbreaking reality that experts acknowledged was always likely to occur.
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Ebola Survivor May Have Started Latest Outbreak -- 5 Years Later A new preliminary genetic analysis suggests that the current Ebola outbreak in Guinea may have originated with a survivor of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, rather than from an animal-to-human transmission.
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Don't Delay: Patients With Cancer Need Both Doses of COVID Vax The first report on responses to COVID-19 vaccination among patients with cancer suggests that for these patients, the immune response that occurs after the first dose of vaccine is reduced in comparison with the response that occurs in healthy individuals.
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'Race Gap' in US Heart Health Has Changed Little in 20 Years: Report By Denise Mann, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, March 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans who live in rural areas are two to three times more likely to die from diabetes and high blood pressure compared with white rural folks, and ...
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News Scan for Mar 15, 2021 Out of 67 intensive care unit (ICU) patients who underwent simultaneous SARS-CoV-2 and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) testing in Saudi Arabia, 8 (11.9%) had coinfections, according to a new Travel Medicine and Infectious ...
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Exclusive: Regular Booster Vaccines Are the Future in Battle With COVID-19 Virus, Top Genome Expert Says Sharon Peacock, who heads COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) which has sequenced nearly half of all the novel coronavirus genomes so far mapped globally, said international cooperation was needed in the "cat and mouse" battle with the virus.
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Projection of cancer screening on metastasis: A prostate cancer case study The reduction of advanced-stage cases at diagnosis will become organ-confined cases and increase the number of cases eligible for metastasis. Also, progressive cases may reduce the incidence of metastatic disease at diagnosis, resulting in the same number ...
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Smoking Makes a Comeback in the Pandemic TUESDAY, March 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Katie Rodgers was just 15 years old when she started smoking, and in her early 20s when it became a more significant habit. Rodgers found quitting tough, but she managed to kick the habit at age 33 during a ...
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Extent of COVID-19 Vaccine Waste Remains Largely Unknown NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As millions continue to wait their turn for the COVID-19 vaccine, small but steady amounts of the precious doses have gone to waste across the country. It's a heartbreaking reality that experts acknowledged was always likely to ...
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Beta Blockers Won't Cause Depression, But Might Impair Sleep: Study By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, March 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of people take a beta blocker regularly, and a new study brings good news: The medications will not raise the risk of depression.
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Is walking 10000 steps every day really necessary? Getting 10,000 steps a day may not be essential for health benefits . The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writers. CNN is showcasing ...
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Low-Dose Aspirin May Help Shield You From COVID-19 MONDAY, March 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- It's already being taken by millions to help ward off heart issues, and now preliminary research hints that daily low-dose aspirin might also cut your odds of contracting COVID-19. As the Israeli research team ...
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Extent of COVID-19 vaccine waste remains largely unknown It's a heartbreaking reality that experts acknowledged was always likely to occur. Thousands of shots have been wasted in Tennessee, Florida, Ohio and many other states. The reasons vary from shoddy record-keeping to accidentally trashing hundreds of shots ...
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The COVID-19 vaccine is free for anyone in Arizona, no strings attached In keeping with an executive order from the governor, Arizonans do not need to pay anything to get vaccinated, at least not as long as Arizona's public health emergency declaration is in effect. Getting Arizonans to ...
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How well do COVID vaccines protect after organ transplant? Vaccines rev up the immune system to recognize the virus, something that's harder to do if someone's immune cells aren't in good working order. Transplant recipients take powerful immune-suppressing drugs to prevent organ rejection ...
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COVID-19 vaccines for children: When can kids get shots? Do they even need them? Historically, pediatric vaccines have focused on killer childhood diseases, but the pandemic has thrown a curve into that thinking. While the virus has been a deadly force among older adults, it's been shown to be mild in the young with deaths relatively minimal.
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COVID-19 Report: 1301 Cases, 26 Deaths Announced Monday; Statewide Hospitalizations Fall Below 4000 Summary report of COVID-19 cases, deaths, estimated recoveries published daily for Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties. By Frank Heinz • Published 5 hours ago • Updated 5 hours ago. This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 ...
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New Ebola cases in Guinea linked to West African epidemic, raising concerns Maybe they had a mild infection before," Kuppalli said. "I think it shows us that there is a lot that we still need to learn about the disease, the pathogenesis and the transmission dynamics of it.".
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Live updates: Minnesota approaches half a million total COVID-19 cases ST PAUL, Minn. — Monday, March 15. Minnesota likely to hit half-million COVID cases this week; Health officials, sports leaders speak on COVID-19 variant concerns; Minnesota adds CVS, Goodrich Pharmacy to Federal Retail Pharmacy Program network ...
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Personalized multivitamins: Worth it or no better than store-bought? A new wave of supplements is rising, though. Companies like Care/of, Baze, Persona Nutrition and others offering personalized supplement packs, which can help consumers avoid one-size-fits-all supplements that may not even work.
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Roughly 30% of Massachusetts State Police force weren't vaccinated for COVID at department-run sites Officials told the news outlet some of the 845 employees who didn't receive at least one dose of either vaccine could have gotten vaccinated at other immunizations sites not run by state police. A spokesperson for the ...
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Millions of more Californians became eligible for vaccines today. Here's who they are The state on Monday expanded vaccine eligibility to homeless people, transit workers and the largest category — people ages 16 to 64 "who are deemed to be at the very highest risk for morbidity and mortality from COVID-19.".
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Common Household Chemicals Tied to Preemie Births By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, March 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Even when women do their best to have a safe pregnancy, chemicals commonly found in the home could still raise their risk for premature delivery, a new ...
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Racial CVD disparities minimally improved in rural areas over 20 years From 1999 to 2018, Black adults in rural communities continuously experienced greater risk for death from diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke compared with white adults, researchers reported. According to a research letter published in the ...
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Afraid of Needles? Don't Let It Keep You From a Covid-19 Vaccine. And as the world's hopes of returning to a post-pandemic normal rest largely on people's willingness to take a Covid-19 vaccine, experts and health care professionals are assuring those people that there are ways to overcome this fear.
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US prison guards refusing vaccine despite COVID-19 outbreaks A Florida correctional officer polled his colleagues earlier this year in a private Facebook group: "Will you take the COVID-19 vaccine if offered?" The answer from more than half: "Hell no." Only 40 of the 475 respondents said yes. In Massachusetts, more than ...
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How Well Do COVID Vaccines Protect After Organ Transplant? A new study raised questions about how well COVID-19 vaccines protect organ transplant recipients — and what precautions people with suppressed immune systems should take after the shots. Vaccines rev up the immune system to recognize the virus, ...
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Drugmakers push COVID-19 vaccines for kids amid debate over need for shot Children have fared better than adults in the coronavirus pandemic, a fact that makes the development of vaccines for them a unique effort in the annals of medical science. Historically, pediatric vaccines have focused on killer childhood diseases, but the ...
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Colorado's COVID-19 hospitalizations increase, but storm confuses picture with case numbers March 16, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.. Colorado's COVID-19 hospitalizations ticked up Monday, but anyone watching will have to wait a few days to see if ...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Pool Expands In San Diego County While people with underlying health conditions are now able to sign up for vaccination appointments in the county, Scripps Health said the number of vaccines it received this week necessitates shutting down the Del Mar site this Wednesday, Friday and ...
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Researchers study impact of pandemic cancer screening pause Millions of colonoscopies, mammograms, lung scans, Pap tests and other cancer screenings were suspended for several months last spring in the United States and elsewhere as COVID-19 swamped medical care. Now ...
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Concerns rise over vaccine data which shows massive disparity in who's getting the shot WASHINGTON (SBG) — President Joe Biden announced the COVID-19 vaccine should be available to all adults by May 1st. But Spotlight on America discovered a racial divide among the individuals who have received the vaccine thus far. The disparity is an ...
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Illinois COVID-19 Update: State reports 782 new coronavirus cases, 12 deaths with new reopening plan in the works CHICAGO (WLS) -- Officials are working on a new phased reopening plan as the state of Illinois set another vaccination record Monday, with the 7-day average now above 100,000 doses a day. Illinois Department of Public Health officials reported 782 new ...
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US ups COVID vaccine payment, notes good dosing compliance Today, the Biden administration bumped up Medicare reimbursements to healthcare providers for COVID-19 vaccines from $28 to $40 for a single dose and from $45 to $80 for a two-dose regimen, said Andy Slavitt, White House senior advisor for COVID ...
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CDC: Airline Travel Increase, Spring Break Trips Could Threaten Coronavirus Progress Over 1.3 million people passed through airport security on Friday. Sunday saw a similar number. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said it's the most travelers seen in a single day since before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic ...
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COVID: How Facebook plans to help you get vaccinated As vaccine eligibility expanded Monday to 4.4 million Californians with health conditions that make them more vulnerable to COVID-19, Facebook announced a new feature Monday to help people figure out when and where they can get vaccinated.
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Is there an association between a pregnant mother's diet and her child's weight? The authors of "Maternal Diet in Pregnancy Is Associated with Differences in Child Body Mass Index Trajectories from Birth to Adolescence," published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, believe that a mother's diet during pregnancy plays a pivotal ...
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As Texas ramps up vaccine programs, more doses getting sent from state offices in Austin While the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) allocates doses by county to maintain equity across the state, some doses aren't assigned to a particular county and are left for state agencies to distribute.
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb: US doing better on Covid vaccines so another case spike like Europe unlikely The coronavirus situation in Europe is not necessarily predictive of what will happen in the U.S. anymore, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday. Vaccination rates in the U.S. make it less likely the nation will experience another surge, the former FDA chief ...
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Michigan adds 3143 cases, nine deaths from COVID-19 The latest figures bring the total number of cases to 610,580 and deaths to 15,783 sincethe virus was first detected in March 2020, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. Last week, the ...
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France reports 4219 people in intensive care with coronavirus The health ministry's Geodes website also reported a provisional 333 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals, compared to 140 on Sunday and a seven-day moving average of 261. The cumulative death toll now stands at 90,762.
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COVID-19 Vaccination Has Been Conjuring Up Emotions And Memories Each day, more and more people are feeling relieved as the vaccine rollout gains momentum. The newfound freedom is familiar for those who have survived other epidemics. Lesley McClurg from member station KQED reports. LESLEY ...
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Coronavirus updates in Central Texas: Austin Public Health experiencing technical issues with appointment sign-up AUSTIN, Texas — KVUE is keeping you updated with the latest coronavirus and COVID-19 news in the Austin area. Scroll down for the top headlines and latest updates in KVUE's March 15 live blog. COVID-19 numbers: Texas: More than 2.3 million cases ...
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