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	health Daily update ⋅ April 15, 2021
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	Washington Post CDC vaccine advisers review Johnson & Johnson shot after reports of rare blood clots Washington Post A federal vaccine advisory committee is meeting Wednesday to discuss next steps on Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine after federal health officials recommended the day before that states pause its use while agencies review six U.S. cases of a rare ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN If you've recently had the J&J vaccine, watch for these rare symptoms, CDC says CNN (CNN) Have you had the single-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine within the last month? If you experience a severe headache that does not go away, significant abdominal or leg pain that does not subside, or increasing shortness of breath, health ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Syphilis Cases in California Drive a Record-Setting Year for STDs Nationwide Medscape He's sober now and runs the Castro Country Club in San Francisco — which is not a resort, but a place where gay men come to get help with addiction, especially meth. Lemon said syphilis comes with the territory. Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD FAQ: Herd Immunity and COVID-19 WebMD Experts can estimate the 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. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Overdose Deaths Have Surged During the Pandemic, CDC Data Shows The New York Times The latest numbers surpass even the yearly tolls during the height of the opioid epidemic and mark a reversal of progress against addiction in recent years. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for Testing The New York Times In January 2020, just weeks after the first Covid-19 cases emerged in China, the full genome of the new coronavirus was published online. Using this genomic sequence, scientists scrambled to design a large assortment of diagnostic tests for the virus. But the ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR A Year In, Here's What We Know About Vitamin D For Preventing COVID NPR When the pandemic hit, many Americans turned to vitamins and supplements in hopes of boosting their immune systems. Scientists also raced to study them. Vitamin D, perhaps more than any other, captured the attention of researchers. Even the nation's top ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN J&J official says an unusual blood clot event was reported in vaccine trial CNN At least one vaccine trial volunteer also developed unusual blood clots after getting Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine, a top official for the company said Wednesday. Dr. Aran Maree, chief medical officer for J&J's vaccine arm Janssen, said blood clots ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Study: 'Magic Mushrooms' May Best Drug for Depression WebMD And psilocybin was consistently superior on the ancillary outcomes, but it wasn't different on the primary," the study's lead author Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, told reporters during a news ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Many Kids Who Develop Severe MIS-C Have Neurologic Symptoms WebMD "With this new inflammatory syndrome that develops after children are infected with the coronavirus, we are still learning how the syndrome affects children and what we need to watch out for," said study author Dr. Omar Abdel-Mannan, of University College ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Empty middle seats reduce virus risk on planes, a new study says, taking no account of mask-wearing. The New York Times "It's important for us to know how aerosols spread in airplanes," said Joseph Allen, a ventilation expert at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who was not involved in the study. But he added ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS News Study shows similar incidence of rare blood clots with Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID vaccines CBS News London — A study by researchers at Oxford University in England suggests the number of people who experience blood clots after getting the coronavirus vaccine made by American pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Moderna is very similar to the number who ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Fact check: COVID-19 vaccines won't cause a zombie apocalypse USA TODAY The claim: Messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines aren't real vaccines, vaccination will turn body into 'virus-making factory'. Zombies have long captivated human imagination but they don't exist in real life, or do they? According to one social media post, these ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times What Women Need to Know About the Covid Vaccine The New York Times News that six women developed a rare blood clotting disorder after receiving Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine has prompted new questions about whether vaccines affect women differently than men, and whether there are special considerations that ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline Infants Can Benefit If Breastfeeding Mothers Are Given a COVID-19 Vaccine Healthline Researchers say a COVID-19 vaccine given to someone who's breastfeeding can produce antibodies in breast milk within weeks. They say the antibodies can help provide protection for infants against the disease. They add that a clinical trial indicated there ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Regular Exercise May Help Protect Against Severe Covid The New York Times People who tended to be sedentary were far more likely to be hospitalized, and to die, from Covid than those who exercised regularly. Flag as irrelevant
	GMA News Antibiotics in development not enough to tackle 'superbugs'- WHO Reuters April 15 (Reuters) - None of the 43 antibiotics currently in development as well as recently approved medicines are enough to combat the increasing emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance, the World Health Organization cautioned on Thursday. Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Dear Nurses, Your COVID Vaccine Experience Matters Medscape Data show that the most common side effects after COVID-19 vaccination are mild, such as pain, redness, or swelling at the injection site; fatigue; headache; muscle pain; chills; fever; or nausea. These side effects usually go away on their own within a few days. Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Psilocybin: Magic mushroom compound 'promising' for depression BBC News Psychedelic drug psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, is as good at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, a small, early-stage study has suggested. But when it comes to actively improving people's well-being and ability to feel ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Moderna Says Vaccine 90% Effective After 6 Months WebMD When the FDA granted Moderna emergency use authorization in December, data showed the vaccine was 94% effective. The pharmaceutical company cited phase III clinical studies conducted through April 9 involving more than 900 cases, including ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Myth or reality? Health experts weigh in on whether 'herd immunity' is possible CNBC An article in Nature last month outlined five reasons why Covid herd immunity could be impossible, including more new variants, waning immunity and questions over whether vaccines prevent transmission. Three experts told CNBC that the world ... Flag as irrelevant
	OCRegister As vaccine eligibility opens up, Orange County plans more clinics for elusive groups OCRegister At this stage, public and private administrators have pieced together a grid of coronavirus vaccination sites that range from large health care provid . . . fst boe dpvouz-svo tvqfs QPEt – qpjout-pg-ejtqfotjoh uibu pggfs uipvtboet pg tmput qfs ebz – up qibsnbdz ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report AHA News: 5 Things to Know This Earth Day About How the Environment Affects Health U.S. News & World Report "The footprint of pollution globally is massive," and air pollution is the biggest danger, said Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan, chief of cardiovascular medicine for University Hospitals Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute in Cleveland. Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape COVID-19 in Children: New Cases on the Rise Again Medscape For the latest week, children represented 18.8% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States — also up from the week before and the second-highest proportion seen during the entire pandemic, based on data in the weekly AAP/CHA report. Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com 'Magic mushroom' compound may work just as well as antidepressants, small study finds Livescience.com The study compared psilocybin to the antidepressant escitalopram in people with moderate-to-severe depression. Psilocybin mushrooms, including the Galindoi variation of Psilocybe mexicana mushrooms (two middle) and Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms ... Flag as irrelevant
	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Allegheny Health Network opening new clinic to treat COVID 'long-haulers' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The self-described long-haulers are those people who became infected with COVID-19 but whose symptoms have lingered for months or develop out of the blue months after they were first diagnosed with the coronavirus. Flag as irrelevant
	Healio Living in highly disadvantaged areas increases brain degeneration, cognitive decline Healio The results of the study, which were published in Neurology, provided additional evidence "for neighborhood-level disadvantage as a risk factor for preclinical neurodegeneration and cognitive decline" among certain groups, according to the researchers. Flag as irrelevant
	TIME My Family Wants to Visit This Summer. Is Travel Safe Yet? TIME Welcome to COVID Questions, TIME's advice column. We're trying to make living through the pandemic a little easier, with expert-backed answers to your toughest coronavirus-related dilemmas. While we can't and don't offer medical advice—those questions ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Why are so many babies dying of Covid-19 in Brazil? BBC News More than a year into the pandemic, deaths in Brazil are now at their peak. But despite the overwhelming evidence that Covid-19 rarely kills young children, in Brazil 1,300 babies have died from the virus. One doctor refused to test Jessika Ricarte's ... Flag as irrelevant
	TribLIVE Allegheny Health Network opens clinic to treat covid long-haulers TribLIVE The migraines came first. Two or three weeks after she recovered from covid-19 last August, Jennifer Gorzock said she started experiencing the intense headaches, along with fatigue and disorienting mental fog. She noted her experience with the covid illness ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Regular exercise can reduce your risk of developing severe Covid: study CNBC After analyzing their weekly physical activity with their Covid-19 response, researchers found that patients who were consistently inactive (less then 10 minutes a week) had a greater risk of hospitalization, admission to the ICU and death than those who worked ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Canada's COVID Surge Prompts Alarm, Lockdown Orders WebMD Over the weekend, the per capita rate for new coronavirus infections in Canada surpassed the rate in the United States. Specifically, the rolling 7-day average of new cases rose to 207.27 per million Canadians, compared with 206.66 cases per million U.S. ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Americas not behaving as if in midst of worsening COVID-19 crisis -regional health official warns Reuters BOGOTA (Reuters) -The Americas are not behaving like a region experiencing an ever-graver outbreak of COVID-19, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: People sit in the observation area after ... Flag as irrelevant
	Atlanta Journal Constitution Calls mount to track US health care worker deaths from COVID Atlanta Journal Constitution Calls are mounting for the Biden administration to set up a national tracking system of COVID-19 deaths among front-line health care workers to honor the thousands of nurses, doctors and support staffers who have died and to ensure that future generations ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Mercury News Stanford begins testing Pfizer vaccine in babies and young children The Mercury News The littlest research volunteers arrived at Stanford University on Wednesday, accompanied by their parents, to participate in a pivotal study of the COVID-19 vaccine in very young children. "We want our kids to be protected from the virus, and not to spread it to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Swiss ease COVID restrictions despite 'fragile' situation Medical Xpress Switzerland's government announced Wednesday it will significantly ease its COVID-19 restrictions despite acknowledging that the country's virus situation "remains fragile" and has even worsened recently. As of Monday, Swiss restaurants and bars, which ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wichita Eagle Kansas has among the best COVID indicators in the US as variants fuel surges elsewhere Wichita Eagle Kansas continues to have mostly improving pandemic indicators, even as coronavirus variants have fueled surges in other areas of the country. The latest report from the White House COVID-19 Task Force, dated Friday but ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS News COVID-19 "long-haulers" cope with lasting virus symptoms CBS News After enduring COVID-19 in December, 38-year-old Camille Hlavka, a dedicated marathon runner, now often gasps for breath. Her most cherished activities are a struggle, including story time with her 2-year-old son Reid. Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Job Loss Seen Driving Many Nurse Suicides MedPage Today Nurses who lose their jobs or are forced to leave the profession because of a substance use disorder, mental health problem, or chronic pain are at risk for suicide, according to a study published last week in the Journal of Nursing Regulation. "What really ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Detroit News Beaumont nears COVID hospital capacity as expert warns of 'new pandemic' The Detroit News Michigan's largest hospital system said it is nearing its capacity for COVID-19 patients, a development CEO John Fox called "troubling and alarming" as a Metro Detroit infectious disease doctor labeled the explosion of cases a "new pandemic." Beaumont ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Moderna vaccines promising vs. variants in mouse study; no higher risk for poor outcomes found with UK variant Reuters (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. Vaccines designed for virus variants show promise in mice. Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay 'Magic Mushroom' Hallucinogen as Good as Antidepressants: Study HealthDay The study of 59 patients with major depression tested the antidepressant escitalopram (Lexapro) against psilocybin, which is the psychedelic substance in hallucinogenic mushrooms. Over six weeks, it appeared that just two doses of psilocybin ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Many Kids Who Develop Severe COVID-Linked Syndrome Have Neurologic Symptoms U.S. News & World Report By Robert Preidt and Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In very rare cases, children infected with the new coronavirus can develop a severe illness known as multisystem inflammatory ... Flag as irrelevant
	TribLIVE More than half of Allegheny County's population is partially vaccinated, officials say TribLIVE More than 50% of Allegheny County's adult population has been partially vaccinated for covid-19, local officials said Wednesday. Among residents older than 65, more than 78% have gotten at least one dose. County officials encouraged people to sign up for ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Fact Check: Did the Pentagon Develop a COVID-Detecting Microchip? Newsweek Some conspiracy theorists allege that governments, or maybe Bill Gates, are using vaccines as a way to inject people with microchips. So when claims emerged that the U.S. had built a COVID-sensing microchip that could be injected into the body, it attracted ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Denver Post Denver will allow restaurants to operate at 100% capacity with distancing as state turns over COVID-19 control The Denver Post "We think that we need to slow down a little bit with just dismissing the dial altogether," said Bob McDonald, executive director of the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, during a briefing Wednesday. "We're going to move to the blue phase, ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Florida Times-Union Florida vaccines, COVID-19 cases, deaths: What you need to know for Thursday, April 15 The Florida Times-Union This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, in Jan. Vaccinations in Florida. Vaccination data provided by Johns Hopkins University and state health departments. Click ... Flag as irrelevant
	Orlando Sentinel Pino: Johnson & Johnson vaccine death 'one in a million,' no bad reactions in Orange County Orlando Sentinel Reports of rare but severe blood clots linked to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine added an obstacle to efforts to inoculate people in parts of Orange County where residents were already reluctant to take a shot to protect themselves from COVID-19. Flag as irrelevant
	Chicago Daily Herald More than 3 million now fully vaccinated in Illinois Chicago Daily Herald More than 3 million people in Illinois -- nearly one in four -- are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, state health officials reported Wednesday, as Gov. J.B. Pritzker offered cautious hope that a climb in cases of the disease is slowing. Another 138,538 vaccine ... Flag as irrelevant
	11Alive.com WXIA VERIFY: If you're listed as an organ donor on your license, does that include your brain? 11Alive.com WXIA Researchers depend on donated brains, both healthy and otherwise, to make breakthroughs in brain disease like stroke, Alzheimer's and related dementias and migraines. It brought up an ... Flag as irrelevant

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