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Covid-19 Live Updates: Virus Surges in Some Parts of US but Not Others The virus is surging in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, while other regions are largely keeping it at bay. Britain rejoices and asks: Are lockdowns finally ending?
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Studies Confirm Racial, Ethnic Disparities In COVID-19 Hospitalizations And Visits Days after declaring racism a serious public health threat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a pair of studies further quantifying the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color. The studies, published Monday in ...
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B.1.1.7 variant more transmissible but does not increase disease severity, two new studies suggest The findings clash with separate research that previously suggested the variant may be tied to a higher risk of dying from Covid-19. One of the studies, ...
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Widely Used BP Meds May Raise Skin Cancer Risk MONDAY, April 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Most people are familiar with common sun-protection advice, from wearing and reapplying sunscreen to putting on a hat. But a new Canadian study finds that for people who take certain blood pressure ...
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Autoimmune-disease drugs may reduce vaccine response; antibody treatments ineffective vs Brazil variant (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Autoimmune disease treatments may reduce vaccine responses.
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AHA News: Straight Answers to Common Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines Lee is part of a medical team that helps elderly homebound people. She's heard lots of concerns firsthand. So has Heneliaka Jones, a registered nurse in the Positive Health Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco ...
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UK Variant Won't Trigger More Severe COVID, Studies Find TUESDAY, April 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies out of Britain find that although the now-dominant "U.K. variant" of the new coronavirus does spread more quickly, it does not appear to lead to more severe disease in those made ill.
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Two New Studies Show That the UK COVID-19 Virus Variant Is Not Linked to Severe Disease—But Questions Remain In two studies published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and in The Lancet Public Health, respectively, scientists provide comforting news about a new strain of the COVID-19 virus that emerged from the U.K. last December. It has since become the ...
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B.1.1.7 Variant Won't Cause More Severe COVID: Study "Our data, within the context and limitations of a real-world study, provide initial reassurance that severity in hospitalized patients with B.1.1.7 is not markedly different from severity in those without," the researchers wrote.
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Covid: People 45 or over in England invited to book vaccine People aged 45 or over in England will now be invited to get a Covid jab, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. The vaccination programme would then move on to everyone aged 40 or over "in line with supplies", he added. Appointments can be made on ...
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Redfield Joins Big Ass Fans, Promoter of Controversial COVID-Killing Technology Enter your email to receive a twice daily digest of our best stories. By clicking "Subscribe" you agree to Terms ...
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Clinics pop up to treat lingering COVID-19 symptoms As the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations accelerates, millions of Americans are planning for life after the pandemic. But for people with lingering symptoms -- patients known as "long haulers" -- that day may never come. Now, clinics are springing up across the ...
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Early Reports of UK Variant's Lethality Appear Greatly Exaggerated The COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, also known as the U.K. variant, was not associated with more severe disease in hospitalized patients versus non-variant strains, but it does appear to be more transmissible, British researchers found. There was no association ...
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S. African Variant Can 'Break Through' Pfizer Protection April 13, 2021 -- An Israeli study found that the South African coronavirus variant, B.1.351, can "break through" protection offered by the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Reuters has reported. "We found a disproportionately higher rate of the South African variant ...
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Cleaning with regular soap and water is often good enough to fight covid-19 "With increasing prevalence of variants, what is the latest advice on day-to-day practices like incoming mail and cleaning our homes? I feel we are back to revisiting former practices in the wake of potential variant-induced resurge. Argh!" Support our ...
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Coronavirus pandemic 'a long way from over', WHO's Tedros says GENEVA (Reuters) - Confusion and complacency in addressing COVID-19 means the pandemic is a long way from over, but it can be brought under control in months with proven public health measures, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...
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Herd Immunity and COVID-19: 5 Things to Know Experts can estimate the minimum percentage of a population that needs to be immune to prevent a disease's spread, what's called the herd immunity threshold. The more contagious the disease, the higher the threshold. One ...
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UK coronavirus variant not more deadly, just spreads more easily, studies find The coronavirus variant first detected in the U.K. does not appear to cause more severe illness or death, or to increase the risk of "long COVID," compared with other strains, according to two new studies. The findings contradict some early research from U.K. ...
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Immune-Boosting Drug May Help Before Lung Cancer Surgery By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer. A drug that helps the immune system fight cancer gave dramatic results when used with chemotherapy before surgery in patients with operable lung tumors, doctors report. One out of 4 patients given ...
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Michigan at 'record high' for COVID-19 hospitalizations of children That includes kids, said Dr. Prashant Mahajan, an emergency medicine physician and division chief of children's emergency medicine at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. "There is definitely an increase in the ...
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Can Dizziness Be a Symptom of COVID-19? It's known that some types of viral infections can impact the inner ear, leading to conditions that cause dizziness or vertigo. One such condition is vestibular neuritis. Vestibular neuritis happens when an infection causes inflammation of ...
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Robert Durst murder trial resumes May 17 after virus delay LOS ANGELES — The murder trial of eccentric New York real estate heir Robert Durst will resume May 17 after more than a yearlong hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, a judge said Monday. Judge Mark Windham denied a renewed motion by Durst's ...
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How to Navigate HIV Care If You Don't Have Insurance The Ryan White HIV/AIDS program has been helping people with lower incomes managing HIV get access to care since 1990. The program is overseen and managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) ...
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India reels amid virus surge, affecting world vaccine supply The Indian city of Pune is running out of ventilators as gasping coronavirus patients crowd its hospitals. Social media is full of people searching for beds, while relatives throng pharmacies looking for antiviral medicines that hospitals ran out of long ago.
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Ohio coronavirus cases, hospitalizations return to higher February levels; see county, statewide trends CLEVELAND, Ohio - Both newly reported coronavirus cases over the last week and the current patient count in hospitals have edged up to their highest levels since late February in Ohio as the state races toward vaccinating enough people to head off a spike ...
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Thiazides associated with increased risk for skin cancer in older adults Adults aged over 65 years who took thiazides for hypertension had an increased risk for keratinocyte carcinoma and melanoma, according to results of a population-based cohort study. "It is important to think about the increased risk of skin cancer associated ...
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Herd Immunity On The Horizon, LA Expands Vaccine Eligibility As more people become eligible for the vaccine, Los Angeles County grapples with widening racial and gender disparities among the vaccinated. Black men, one of the hardest-hit segments of the population, have the lowest vaccination rate.
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WHO warns coronavirus pandemic is a 'long way from over' as cases rise WHO officials said there's been seven consecutive weeks of increasing COVID-19 cases and four weeks of increasing deaths worldwide. By. Joseph Guzman | April 12, 2021.
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Autoimmune-disease drugs may reduce vaccine response; antibody treatments ineffective vs Brazil variant (Reuters) -The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Autoimmune disease treatments may reduce vaccine responses.
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Study Links Snoring in Children with Structural Brain Changes and Behavioral Problems An analysis of brain MRI scans, conducted by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers, has uncovered evidence that children who regularly snore have structural changes in particular regions of the brain, which may account for ...
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India to approve coronavirus shots green-lit by WHO, others India says it is approving the use of all coronavirus vaccines that have been given an emergency nod by the World Health Organization or regulators in the United States, Europe, Britain or Japan. By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer. April 13, 2021 ...
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One shot of vaccine may be enough for COVID-19 survivors, studies suggest But an emerging body of evidence suggests that there may be an exception to that rule. If you've already battled a coronavirus infection, it's possible that one dose may suffice. "This has been ...
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Tweaked COVID vaccines in testing aim to fend off variants Dozens of Americans are rolling up their sleeves for a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine — this time, shots tweaked to guard against a worrisome mutated version of the virus. Make no mistake: The vaccines currently being rolled out across the U.S. offer strong ...
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A multidimensional view of SARS-CoV-2 What exactly happens when the corona virus SARS-CoV-2 infects a cell? In an article published in Nature, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry paints a comprehensive picture of the viral infection ...
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Some Kids Snore, and It Could Affect Behavior By Diane Moy and Carole Tanzer Miller, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Snoring just isn't for adults, and behavior problems in kids who regularly snore may be due to changes in their brain structure, ...
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Tweaked COVID vaccines in testing aim to fend off variants Make no mistake: The vaccines currently being rolled out across the U.S. offer strong protection. But new studies of experimental updates to the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines mark a critical first step toward an alternative if the virus eventually outsmarts today's ...
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More Young Adults Are Being Hospitalized with COVID as Faster-Spreading Strains Dominate The highly-contagious B.1.1.7 variant, which was first identified in the U.K., is now the dominant strain in the U.S. and the reason why more young adults are getting COVID-19, Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
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Researchers discover new way to starve brain tumors Scientists from Queen Mary University of London, funded by the charity Brain Tumor Research, have found a new way to starve cancerous brain tumor cells of energy in order to prevent further growth. The pre-clinical research in human tissue samples, human ...
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Officials warn of COVID-19 uptick in St. Louis and Illinois. But mass vaccination clinics aren't filling The St. Louis health department on Monday reported that the city has seen an increase over the past two weeks in new COVID-19 cases, with the seven-day average increasing to 28, from 20, and the positivity rate — or percentage of tests that came back ...
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Proteomic Study of SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV Infections Points to Potential Drug Targets In the ongoing pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 has led to more than 136 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 3 million deaths worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center. SARS ...
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Virus trends continue to decrease in LA County, but health officials urge men to get vaccine Cases, hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19 are continuing to trend downward in Los Angeles County, but health officials are worried about men of color who are not vaccinated and at higher risk for dying from the virus. At a news conference on ...
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UK COVID variant more transmissible but may not be more deadly, new studies indicate As was predicted, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now reporting the B.1.1.7 strain to be the most dominant variant in the U.S., accounting for over 30% of cases in some states.
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Pentagon develops microchip that detects COVID under your skin Medical researchers at the Pentagon have created a microchip that will detect COVID-19 when inserted under the skin. Relax, conspiracy theorists — they're not being disseminated via vaccines.
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More women than men getting coronavirus vaccines Mary Ann Steiner drove 2½ hours from her home in the St. Louis suburb of University City to the tiny Ozark town of Centerville, Missouri, to get vaccinated against COVID-19. After pulling into the drive-thru line in a church parking lot, she noticed that the others ...
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Orange County to closed two large COVID-19 testing sites April 30 With at-home options and more neighborhood-based locations available, Orange County officials announced Monday they will be closing two large regional COVID-19 testing sites at the end of the month. The "super sites" at the Anaheim Convention Center ...
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The Most Common Lingering Symptoms After Mild COVID April 12, 2021 – Loss of smell, loss of taste, shortness of breath, and fatigue are the four most common symptoms that people reported 8 months after a mild case of COVID-19, according to a new study. Approximately 1 in 10 people experienced at least one ...
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Britain says it has offered COVID-19 vaccine to all over-50s LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Monday said it had offered all over-50s a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, hitting a target to offer injections to all people in its nine highest priority groups by April 15. Slideshow ( 2 images ). Britain has seen one of the world's ...
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AHA News: Instructed in CPR By 911 Dispatcher, Nebraska Couple Saves 13-Day-Old Son By American Heart Association News, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, April 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- During a nightly TV newscast in January, anchor Bill Schammert's voice broke as he described why he'd been off the air ...
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Boone County leads Missouri in first-dose percentage. When will we reach herd immunity from COVID-19? It finally happened. After months of reserving COVID-19 vaccines for groups like health care workers and those 65 and older, the state made every adult in Missouri eligible for a shot Friday. It was a long-awaited step forward in the fight to end the pandemic ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked with six unhealthy eating behaviors Researchers say the most concerning finding indicates a slight increase or the re-emergence of eating disorders, which kill roughly 10,200 people every year—about one person every 52 minutes. U ...
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