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	health Daily update ⋅ April 16, 2021
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	The New York Times Can the Covid Vaccine Protect Me Against Virus Variants? The New York Times The news about coronavirus variants can sound like a horror movie, with references to a "double-mutant" virus, "vaccine-evading" variants and even an "Eek" mutation. One headline warned ominously: "The devil is already here." While it's true that the virus ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Biden Administration To Spend $1.7 Billion To Track Spread Of Coronavirus Variants NPR "Our goal is to get that money out as fast as possible to help states in all the many ways that they need to be able to expand their own sequencing capacity," said Carole Johnson, the White House COVID-19 testing coordinator, in an interview with NPR. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN So far, 5800 fully vaccinated people have caught Covid anyway in US, CDC says CNN (CNN) About 5,800 people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus have become infected anyway, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells CNN. Some became seriously ill and 74 people died, the CDC said. It said 396 -- 7% -- of ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Amid Hesitancy, Louisiana Gets Creative in Vaccine Outreach U.S. News & World Report BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Brass bands playing at a 24-hour drive-thru coronavirus vaccine event. Doses delivered to commercial fishermen minutes from the docks. Pop-up immunization clinics at a Buddhist temple, homeless shelters, truck stops and casinos ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Amid hesitancy, Louisiana gets creative in vaccine outreach Washington Post BATON ROUGE, La. — Brass bands playing at a 24-hour drive-thru coronavirus vaccine event. Doses delivered to commercial fishermen minutes from the docks. Pop-up immunization clinics at a Buddhist temple, homeless shelters, truck stops and casinos, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Chile's vaccination rollout was fast and broad. So why are Covid-19 cases spiking? CNN (CNN) It was supposed to be Latin America's bright spot in the fight against Covid-19. Chile, a country of 19 million on the Pacific coast of South America, had gotten a head start on vaccines by making agreements with pharmaceutical companies only months ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Amid hesitancy, Louisiana gets creative in vaccine outreach ABC News BATON ROUGE, La. -- Brass bands playing at a 24-hour drive-thru coronavirus vaccine event. Doses delivered to commercial fishermen minutes from the docks. Pop-up immunization clinics at a Buddhist temple, homeless shelters, truck stops and casinos, with ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline One Black Woman's Journey Through COVID-19 Healthline It's been tough. Many of us know someone who has had COVID-19 or has died of the illness. Some of us have even tested positive, including me. This is the story of how I survived the virus. Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline Trying to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine? These New Tools May Help Healthline Tech giants like Facebook and Google have been promoting new tools to help connect users to vaccination appointments and important public health information around the vaccines. Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Researchers say cool white paint could combat urban heat Washington Post How white is their paint? Whiter than virgin snow, they say. Image without a caption. Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering, displays his ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Booster Shots a Likely Reality for COVID-Vaccinated Americans U.S. News & World Report "There are vaccines like polio where one dose is enough, and there are vaccines like flu that you need every year, " Albert Bourla, the Pfizer chief, said in a conversation hosted by CVS Health, CNBC News reported. "The COVID virus looks more like the ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Lateral-flow tests: What are the risks and benefits? BBC News Millions of people in England are being encouraged to take two free rapid Covid tests a week. The Lateral Flow Device (LFD) kits can be picked up from testing sites, pharmacies or sent through the post. They give results in about 30 minutes compared with ... Flag as irrelevant
	Detroit Free Press Beaumont sets up triage units, tents outside some hospitals to manage COVID-19 surge Detroit Free Press Michigan's third COVID-19 surge is "like a runaway train," Dr. Nick Gilpin, Beaumont Health's medical director of infection prevention and epidemiology, said Thursday. More than 800 coronavirus patients fill all eight of the hospitals in the state's largest health ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Past COVID-19 infection does not fully protect young people from reinfection Medical Xpress In the study, between May and November 2020, around 10% (19 out of 189) of participants who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 (seropositive) became reinfected, compared with new infections in 50% (1,079 out of 2,247) of participants who had not ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress In Canada, psychedelics re-emerge in treatment of depression Medical Xpress In this file photo taken on August 28, 2020, a woman demonstrates what a patient would experience in a therapy room at Field Trip, a psychedelic therapy clinic in Toronto—psychedelics are being reconsidered as a treatment for mental health issues. Flag as irrelevant
	Atlanta Journal Constitution Why 'Zoom fatigue' is worse for women, according to new study Atlanta Journal Constitution "Zoom fatigue" — that feeling of being drained at the end of an online meeting — is not only real, a new study finds, but it affects women more than men. For their study, researchers at Stanford University used "Zoom" as a general catch-all for video ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Ten reasons why the coronavirus is airborne Medical Xpress There is consistent, strong evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air, according to a new assessment published today in the medical journal Lancet. Therefore, public health measures that fail to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Seattle Times Spring wave of coronavirus crashes across 38 states as hospitalizations increase Seattle Times The coronavirus pandemic in America has turned into a patchwork of regional hot spots, with some states hammered by a surge of infections and hospitalizations even as others have seen the crisis begin to ease. The spring wave of the pandemic has driven ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Boston Globe We asked experts what they're comfortable doing now they've been vaccinated. Here's what they said. The Boston Globe So now you're fully vaccinated. Can you go back to your life exactly as you knew it before the coronavirus hit? Not so fast, says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vaccines are effective at preventing COVID-19 disease, especially severe ... Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant Scientific American One group was given a full dose of psilocybin (the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms") in combination with psychotherapy. The other received daily amounts of the SSRI escitalopram plus two minuscule amounts of psilocybin with psychotherapy. Flag as irrelevant
	Seattle Times Amid hesitancy, Louisiana gets creative in vaccine outreach Seattle Times BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Brass bands playing at a 24-hour drive-thru coronavirus vaccine event. Doses delivered to commercial fishermen minutes from the docks. Pop-up immunization clinics at a Buddhist temple, homeless shelters, truck stops and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Rolling Stone What the Recent HIV Vaccine Research Findings Really Mean Rolling Stone Over the past year, there has been a dramatic shift in the amount of space vaccines occupy in the public consciousness. During the development and testing of the current Covid-19 vaccines, people followed the different phases of the clinical trials like an ... Flag as irrelevant
	Chron Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right? Chron Researchers looked at 236,379 British patients diagnosed with COVID-19 over six months, analyzing neurologic and psychiatric complications during that time period. They compared those individuals to others who had experienced similar respiratory illnesses ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape COVID-Related Inflammatory Syndrome Tied to Neurologic Symptoms in Kids Medscape About half of children with pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) have new-onset neurologic symptoms, research shows. These symptoms involve the central ... Flag as irrelevant
	KSL.com COVID-19 data: Who is still contracting COVID-19? KSL.com Today, over 1.13 million Utahns have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That represents close to half of Utah's estimated adult population. Nearly one-third of the estimated adult population is considered fully vaccinated, as well. Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American Doctors Should Talk to Patients about Firearm Injury Prevention Scientific American For years, we doctors have advocated to approach gun violence as a health care issue—with studies showing that public health strategies can be beneficial in preventing firearm injury similar to approaches taken for COVID-19, substance use and motor ... Flag as irrelevant
	WDIV ClickOnDetroit 54 takeaways: Beaumont officials on Michigan restrictions, dire hospital situation, COVID stats WDIV ClickOnDetroit Officials from Beaumont Health talked about whether Michigan needs another COVID shutdown and many other topics while painting a dire picture of hospitals filling up with COVID-19 patients. Dr. Nick Gilpin, the medical director of infection prevention, and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com COVID-19 booster shots may be needed within 12 months, US officials say Livescience.com A person receiving a vaccine. (Image credit: Shutterstock). People vaccinated against COVID-19 may require booster shots within nine to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Crain's Detroit Business Michigan adds 6303 positive COVID-19 cases; Beaumont sets up curbside triage Crain's Detroit Business Beaumont Health on Thursday set up an outdoor patient triage station in front of its Grosse Pointe hospital emergency department. Michigan's ongoing COVID-19 surge added 6,303 ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Study Finds Young US Marines Without COVID-19 History at Greater Infection Risk U.S. News & World Report (Reuters) - A study of more than 3,000 young U.S. Marines found that those without a history of COVID-19 had a five times greater risk of infection than those previously infected, according to findings published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal. Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay US Marines Study Finds Getting COVID Won't Protect Young People From Reinfection HealthDay FRIDAY, April 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Young adults, take note: A new study finds that even if you have suffered a bout of COVID-19, it is not a guarantee against a second infection. Researchers said the results show that even those young people ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Virus variants inciting India's second surge, epidemiologists say Reuters The second surge of COVID-19 cases in India has swamped hospitals much faster than the first because mutations in the virus mean each patient is infecting many more people than before, epidemiologists and doctors say. India's daily infections skyrocketed ... Flag as irrelevant
	KSL.com No, your blood type doesn't affect risk of COVID-19 or severe illness, new Utah study finds KSL.com "I think it's important because it's been, for us, really one of our primary objectives to identify patients who are at higher risk and to build risk scores," said Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, a cardiologist and researcher with the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNET COVID-19 vaccine allergic reaction: What to know and who's at risk CNET Health authorities made it very clear that people who have a history of severe allergic reactions might have to hold off on getting vaccinated. For everyone else, the overall risk of allergic reaction is pretty low, but it's important to be prepared for that possibility ... Flag as irrelevant
	STLtoday.com Barbers, artists help defy vaccine myths for people of color STLtoday.com Across the country, a university researcher in Phoenix teamed up with a company behind comic books fighting Islamic extremism to produce dance-inducing animated stories in Spanish that aim to smash conspiracy theories hindering Latinos from getting ... Flag as irrelevant
	NOLA.com Amid COVID vaccine hesitancy, Louisiana gets creative in outreach at bars, churches, casinos NOLA.com BATON ROUGE — Brass bands playing at a 24-hour drive-thru coronavirus vaccine event. Doses delivered to commercial fishermen minutes from the docks. Pop-up immunization clinics at a Buddhist temple, homeless shelters, truck stops and casinos, with ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS Denver COVID Booster Shots: UCHealth Plans For Possibility Of 3rd Dose Needed Within A Year CBS Denver AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – UCHealth is already planning for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, after the CEO of Pfizer announced they'll likely be needed within 12 months of being fully vaccinated. The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine (credit: Leon Neal/Getty ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Pfizer CEO: Vaccine third dose 'likely' needed within 12 months Medical Xpress The head of Pfizer said in an interview aired Thursday that people will "likely" need a third dose of his company's COVID-19 shot within six to 12 months of vaccination, while elsewhere defending the relatively higher cost of the jab. CEO Albert Bourla also said ... Flag as irrelevant
	UT News | The University of Texas at Austin A Public Health Nurse Gets Her Chance to Step Up to the Front Line UT News | The University of Texas at Austin Karen Johnson was at home in her makeshift bedroom office — one of her five cats crawling on her keyboard — when she got the email saying that UT had gotten its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The date was Dec. 14, 2020. The next day, UT started ... Flag as irrelevant
	E! Online Americans Who Received COVID-19 Vaccine E! Online + Hoboken, New Jersey. "After 12 months of not seeing my high-risk parents, living in fear of infecting my husband and baby every time I came home and working nonstop with COVID patients, I received my COVID-19 vaccine without hesitation. The vaccine ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress One year of SARS-CoV-2 evolution Medical Xpress Mutations of particular interest include those in the spike protein. This protein allows the virus to enter host cells and is the main target of the immune system, including immunity generated by all current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. Flag as irrelevant
	nj.com NJ reports 47 COVID deaths, 3411 positive tests. More than one-third of adults fully vaccinated. nj.com New Jersey health officials on Thursday reported another 3,411 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and an additional 47 confirmed deaths as hospitalizations declined and the seven-day average for new positive tests continued to drop. "Better days are ... Flag as irrelevant
	Detroit Free Press Overdose deaths in Michigan decreased in 2019 — and then COVID-19 hit Detroit Free Press Just released numbers from the state of Michigan show a decrease in drug overdose deaths for 2019, the last calm before the storm of overdoses that coincided with the coronavirus pandemic. It marked the second year in a row drug overdose deaths declined ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healio CDC marks STD Awareness Week amid sustained increase in cases Healio According to the CDC, the United States reported a record number of STD cases for the 6th consecutive year in 2019. CDC data also show that 68 million STIs occurred in the U.S. in 2018 alone. For this year's STD Awareness Week, which falls during the ... Flag as irrelevant
	WFSB So far, 5800 fully vaccinated people have caught Covid anyway in US, CDC says WFSB (CNN) - About 5,800 people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus have become infected anyway, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells CNN. Some became seriously ill and 74 people died, the CDC said. It said 396 -- 7% -- of ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Weather Channel Study Finds Traces of Deadly Coronavirus in Dust After Four Weeks; Offers New Way to Predict Outbreaks The Weather Channel Thanks to an overwhelming number of studies on the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, we now know that the deadly coronavirus lingers on different mediums for a varying amount of time, ranging from a few minutes to a few days. But now, for the first time, ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report 'Magic Mushroom' Hallucinogen as Good as Antidepressants: Study U.S. News & World Report By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The magic ingredient in "magic mushrooms" may be at least as effective as standard medication for depression, an early clinical trial suggests. The study of 59 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Spring wave of coronavirus crashes across 38 states as hospitalizations increase Washington Post Thirty-eight states have reported an increase during the past week in the number of people hospitalized with covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to a Washington Post analysis of data provided by the Department of Health and Human Services. Flag as irrelevant
	Cincinnati.com Family asks for patience as rumors circulate about vaccine causing son's death Cincinnati.com The family of the University of Cincinnati student who died on Sunday is asking for the public to be patient as health officials investigate what caused his sudden death. Various social media posts and blogs have speculated that 21-year-old John Foley's death ... Flag as irrelevant
	KITV Honolulu Covid-19 surge in Michigan is putting some hospitals at critical capacity levels, health care provider says KITV Honolulu By Christina Maxouris and Jason Hanna, CNN Soaring Covid-19 cases in Michigan -- where one of the nation's worst outbreaks is underway -- are pushing hospitals to critical capacity levels, and residents need to help... Flag as irrelevant

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