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Promising Pfizer Results for Child Coronavirus Vaccines A clinical trial found that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was highly effective in adolescents aged 12 to 15, the companies said on Wednesday. The trial found no infections among the children who received the vaccine, and the vaccines produced even stronger ...
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Trapped in the House With an Eating Disorder Anxiety, disrupted routines and loneliness are fueling people's food issues as they hunker down during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Medics despair as France's 'third way' virus strategy flails People with COVID-19 occupy all the beds in her ICU ward in President Emmanuel Macron's hometown hospital in the medieval northern city of Amiens. Three have died in the past three days. The vast medical complex is turning away critically ill patients from ...
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Experts: COVID Vaccines' Power Could Wane Within a Year There are growing fears current Covid-19 vaccines will be ineffective in less than a year because of new and resistant mutations. In a survey by the People's Vaccine Alliance, 88 percent of epidemiologists say ...
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Covid-19: Few people with symptoms are self-isolating, study finds These include a cough, high temperature and loss of taste or smell. Experts said the findings suggested the impact of the £37bn NHS Test and Trace system was "limited".
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A 'Game Changer' for Patients With Esophageal Cancer A drug that unleashes the immune system offers a rare glimmer of hope for those with a cancer that resists most treatments.
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CDC Confirms COVID as Third Leading Cause of Death in 2020 By Ernie Mundell and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that illustrates the heavy toll the pandemic has taken on America, a new government report confirms that COVID-19 became the ...
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Stress can be good for you, and here's why (CNN) How's it going in that boiling lobster pot of stress? 5 science-backed ways to stop Covid-19 pandemic stress right now. The last year of living in a pandemic has stretched human coping skills so thin that experts fear many of us may soon snap, leaving ...
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Covid-19 led to a global increase in stillbirths, maternal mortality, and depression, review finds There was a nearly sixfold increase in ectopic pregnancies - when the fertilized egg grows outside a woman's uterus, between January of 2020 and January 2021, the review found. Untreated, ectopic pregnancies can cause life-threating bleeding.
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Man's Ebola relapse spawned dozens of new cases in Africa A man in Africa who developed Ebola despite receiving a vaccine recovered but suffered a relapse nearly six months later that led to 91 new cases before he died. The report adds to evidence that the deadly virus can lurk in the body long after symptoms end, ...
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Many Recovering COVID Patients Show Signs of Long-Term Organ Damage By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term organ damage appears to be common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients after they've recovered and been discharged, British ...
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The Pandemic's Wrongest Man In this crowded field of wrongness, one voice stands out. The voice of Alex Berenson: the former New York Times reporter, Yale-educated novelist, avid tweeter, online essayist, and all-around pandemic gadfly.
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Inside The CDC's Battle To Defeat The Virus It's been a long year for basically everyone — and especially for Dr. Henry Walke. For months on end, Walke has been pulling 13-hour work days as the COVID-19 incident response manager at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a job he took on ...
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Wyoming and other states racing to broaden eligibility for vaccines. Wyoming announced on Wednesday that residents who are at least 16 years old were now eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine in the state. New Mexico, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington and Kentucky have also joined the race. Over 40 states have now ...
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Covid innovations 'will reshape future NHS' in Wales Innovations that helped NHS staff during the Covid pandemic will also reshape the health service, researchers believe. Video consultations and apps for recovering patients are among technologies forced into operation. Other innovations proved crucial, ...
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Experts say 'herd immunity' could conquer COVID-19. But is it even possible? For months, the two words have been a beacon for a weary world, touted by public health experts and government officials: if we reach "herd immunity," they say, we can stomp out the coronavirus, emerge safely from the pandemic, and return to normal life.
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COVID deaths third after heart disease and cancer in US last year; people of color hit hardest, CDC reports confirm The reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on death certificate data, also illustrated the staggering impact COVID-19 had in 2020 on different racial groups. Overall, American Indian and Alaska ...
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COVID-19 B.1.1.7 variant on its way to becoming the dominant variant in the United States The faster-spreading B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 first detected in the United Kingdom, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is quickly on its way to becoming the dominant variant of the virus in the United States, according to a study from scientists at ...
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COVID: California boomers scramble for vaccine as eligibility opens up The mad scramble is on as some 7.6 million middle-aged Californians become eligible statewide for the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday amid conflicting signals about the availability of appointments for the shots. As county officials, health care providers and ...
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COVID-19 pandemic worsened pregnancy outcomes for women and babies worldwide Pregnancy outcomes for mothers and babies have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, a review of data from 40 studies representing 17 countries published today in The Lancet Global Health journal has revealed. Findings varied by country but ...
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The CDC and NIH launch a rapid, at-home testing initiative in Tennessee and North Carolina. The program will make rapid at-home antigen tests freely available to every resident of two communities, Pitt County, N.C., and Hamilton County, Tenn., enough for a total of 160,000 people to test themselves for the coronavirus three times a week for a month.
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Stillbirths, Other Pregnancy Complications Up During Pandemic By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 1, 2021 (HealthDayNews) -- The ripple effect of the COVID-19 scourge has led to more complications among pregnant women worldwide, including an increase in stillbirths, a new study ...
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How much do vaccines protect against new COVID variants? There's reason for concern, experts say. Confirmed cases of COVID, including those related to new variants, are on the rise in New Jersey, even as the tens of thousands of residents are being vaccinated every day. More than 4 million doses have been administered in state, with 1.5 million New ...
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Many Hospitalized COVID Patients Develop New Ailments Later Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 were diagnosed with major cardiovascular events, chronic liver disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes after being discharged from the hospital more frequently than a matched cohort, reported Amitava Banerjee, ...
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Beaumont Health has highest number of COVID-19 inpatients in Michigan Also, the health system released guidelines about fully vaccinated people visiting their loved ones who are hospitalized for issues other than the coronavirus. Beaumont Health said in a release that the number COVID-19 positive or ...
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CDC Confirms COVID as Third Leading Cause of Death in 2020 Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that more than 547,000 lives have been lost to COVID-19 since the pandemic began last spring. Only the two long-term biggest killers, heart disease and cancer, killed more Americans ...
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Sharp Decline in Flu and Colds Has Experts Wondering if Masks Will Stick Around After Pandemic Ends Recent studies and data have shown that respiratory illnesses in children have sharply declined over the last year, when most kids either did virtual learning at home or were required to wear masks at school. A study published ...
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Sun's out, surf's up and California's reopening more widely SANTA MONICA, Calif. Cheering fans instead of cardboard cutouts at Dodger Stadium. Screaming thrill-seekers riding the Giant Dipper roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Beer lovers bellying up to, ...
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How soon will LA County reach herd immunity? LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County is now eligible to advance into a less-restrictive tier on the state's color-coded reopening system, but it will wait until Monday to make the move and some rules will be stricter than state guidelines. As the county ...
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Research Reveals How Aspirin Helps Prevent Colon Cancer By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, March 31, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- New research offers insight into why regular, long-term use of low-dose aspirin may reduce the risk of death from colon and rectal cancers. Resarchers ...
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Is COVID herd immunity within Michigan's reach? Health experts weigh in That typically happens when about 70% to 80% of the population has developed antibodies against a disease or virus through either infection or vaccination, said Michigan State University epidemiology professor Nigel Paneth.
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Can I still spread the coronavirus after I'm vaccinated? Can I still spread the coronavirus after I'm vaccinated? Experts are still studying how good COVID-19 vaccines are at preventing people from spreading the virus, but say the risk is low.
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LA County vows to reach 80% coronavirus vaccination rate in 12 weeks Within 12 weeks, Los Angeles County public health officials expect to vaccinate 80% of residents over 15 years old, a benchmark that could be a giant stride toward the end of the pandemic here. But increases in virus variants of concern that are continuing to ...
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I Can Breathe Again': Older Adults Begin to Test Freedom After COVID Vaccinations The rapid rollout of covid vaccines to people 65 and older makes this possible. As of Monday, nearly 49% of seniors in the U.S. had been fully vaccinated, while nearly 73% had received one dose of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
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Maine to accelerate vaccine program next week, get record number of doses Northern Light Health, which operates mass vaccination clinics in Bangor and Portland, says demand is starting to 'taper off' in northern Maine. Case counts remain high, as the coronavirus circulates among Mainers who ...
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Iowa Lawmaker Who Had COVID Feels Like She's Had 'the Flu for Two Months': 'I Just Get Totally Wiped Out' More than a year into the pandemic, researchers are still learning about the effects of the virus on the body, with a recent study indicated that even those with initially mild or asymptomatic cases can become "long-haulers.".
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COVID Pandemic Increased Stillbirth and Maternal Death Rates, Study Shows (Reuters) - Rates of stillbirth and maternal deaths rose by around a third during the COVID-19 pandemic, with pregnancy outcomes getting worse overall for both babies and mothers worldwide, according to an international data review published on ...
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Sun's out, surf's up and California's reopening more widely SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Cheering fans instead of cardboard cutouts at Dodger Stadium. Screaming thrill-seekers riding the Giant Dipper roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Beer lovers bellying up to, well, a table outside a brewery.
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Fast, portable test can diagnose COVID-19 and track variants Clinicians using a new viral screening test can not only diagnose COVID-19 in a matter of minutes with a portable, pocket-sized machine, but can also simultaneously test for other viruses—like influenza—that might be mistaken for the coronavirus.
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Mice naturally engage in physical distancing, study finds When someone is sick, it's natural to want to stay as far from them as possible. It turns out this is also true for mice, according to an MIT study that also identified the brain circuit responsible for this distancing behavior. In a study that explores how otherwise ...
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Ultra-processed foods, drinks linked to higher colorectal cancer risk: study Examples of ultra-processed products would include "sugary soft drinks, ready meals and mass-produced industrial baked goods," a related release from ISGlobal notes.
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Mass COVID testing at UK universities is haphazard and unscientific, finds BMJ investigation The costly rollout of asymptomatic screening for COVID-19 at UK universities has found very few positive cases following its launch in December as part of the Government's ambitious £100bn Moonshot programme, finds an investigation published by The ...
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What not to do before, after your COVID-19 shot There is a chance taking these medications could result in a "decrease in antibody response," Dr. Gregory Poland, director of the Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told WebMD.
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Washington researchers resume fieldwork after study shows low COVID-19 risk to bats SEATTLE — New research on the potential of human to bat coronavirus transmission is reinforcing Washington's decision to resume letting scientists work hands-on with bats. The U.S. Geological Survey released results of a study this week, which found ...
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Why we need more genomic surveillance to track the coronavirus and help end the COVID-19 pandemic Now the U.S. faces a similar issue with a different type of test: genetic sequencing. Unlike a COVID-19 test that diagnoses infection, genetic sequencing decodes the genome of SARS-CoV-2 virus in samples from patients.
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Weight loss changes people's responsiveness to food marketing: study According to a new study by UBC Sauder School of Business Assistant Professor Dr. Yann Cornil (he/him/his) and French researchers, people with obesity do tend to be more responsive to food marketing—but when their weight drops significantly, so does their ...
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More than 3400 new COVID-19 cases confirmed statewide, 100 more in Central Texas (KWTX) – The Texas Department of State Health Services reported an additional 3,453 confirmed cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, increasing the statewide total to 2,395,313, while in Central Texas 100 additional cases were reported, boosting the regional ...
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Convincing skittish parents to vaccinate their children will be key to curbing Covid, says Dr. Hotez Hotez's comments came after Pfizer announced earlier in the day that its vaccine is 100% effective in kids ages 12 to 15. In this article.
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Washington Reported No Flu Deaths For 2020 Washington state reported zero flu deaths during the fall and winter, revealing the impact of COVID-19 precautions on public health. "This year really has been a historic low for influenza," University of Washington Medicine infectious disease specialist Dr.
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Children's COVID-19 vaccine trial results 'great news,' Utah doctor says Pfizer's announcement Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective in 12- to 15-year-olds was hailed as "nothing short of great news for children and for controlling the epidemic" by a University of Utah Health pediatric infectious diseases ...
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