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CDC says fully vaccinated Americans can go without masks outdoors, except in crowded settings The guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the latest set of recommendations for people who are two weeks past their final shot and for those who have not yet been inoculated. The guidelines address growing ...
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Could It Happen Here? India's COVID Situation Worsening April 28, 2021 -- The COVID-19 outbreak in India continues to unfold, with record-breaking daily case numbers, oxygen for ventilators running scarce, and a transmission rate that points to things getting worse before they get better. Could such a scenario play ...
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COVID-19 Has Hit The Amish Community Hard. Still, Vaccines Are A Hard Sell Despite this, health officials are struggling to get residents vaccinated. Holmes County, where half of the population is Amish, has the lowest vaccination rate in Ohio, with just 10% of its roughly 44,000 residents fully vaccinated.
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Social distancing indoors may provide 'false sense of security,' covid transmission study finds Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology argued that not all indoor settings are the same, varying by size, ventilation, air filtration, occupancy and the nature of the activity. While the core premise of the ...
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How Mask Guidelines Have Evolved in a Pandemic Year Officials offered mixed messages about masks in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic before embracing them as a simple but effective tool for slowing the spread of Covid-19.
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15 of the safest activities for the fully vaccinated -- with and without face masks Remember: You're not considered "fully vaccinated" until two weeks after you got a single-dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine or the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines.
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COVID Lockdowns Linked to PTSD in Patients With Eating Disorders Results of the first study show that patients with EDs had more stress, anxiety, depression, and PTSD-related symptoms during the lockdowns than their mentally healthy peers. In the second study, treatment- ...
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HPV Vaccination Rates Continue to Climb Among Young Adults in US The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend two doses of the HPV vaccine for children aged 11 to 12 years. Adolescents and young adults may need three doses over the course ...
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Higher Education Won't Help Preserve the Aging Brain: Study By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- That college degree may be useful in many ways, but new research suggests it probably won't keep your brain from shrinking with age. Over the years, a number ...
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India's crushing COVID caseload the result of a 'perfect storm' of factors, experts say Last March, when COVID-19 arrived in India, the country of 1.4 billion people quickly went into lockdown for two months, keeping infection rates under tight control. There was a spike in September but then the numbers came back down. By February, cases ...
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Six-foot social distancing rule misses bigger risks, MIT experts say Bazant and Bush worked out a complex formula for calculating how quickly someone might be expected to be exposed to virus in various closed rooms. The calculation takes into account air circulation, the rate of replacement of potentially ...
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UC Irvine Health opens program to treat lingering symptoms of COVID-19 Margaret Goldstein is still feeling the effects of COVID-19 five months after her diagnosis. Lung damage, fatigue and a high heart rate are lingering symptoms for the Tustin resident, who declined to disclose her age. "My problem really is my heart rate gets ...
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Fact check: No, interacting with a vaccinated person won't cause miscarriage or menstrual changes The claim: Being around COVID-19 vaccinated people can cause miscarriages or menstrual cycle changes. There's a gender gap in the national vaccination rollout. Reports looking at state vaccine statistics show more women are getting vaccinated than men ...
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UK regulator sees no heart inflammation concerns from Pfizer COVID shot LONDON (Reuters) - There are no new safety concerns around the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and heart inflammation based on the rollout of the shot in Britain, the UK MHRA medicine regulator said on Wednesday, after cases of the condition in Israel.
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Countdown to Herd Immunity: The Fight to Get People Vaccinated for COVID-19 In some areas, this has meant launching vaccination sites specifically geared toward seniors, a group that's seen the highest rates of hospitalization and death during the pandemic. Mobile clinics have also popped up in underserved areas ...
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Nothing to Sniff at: Depression Common for People With COVID-Linked Smell Loss By Sarah D. Collins HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Loss of the sense of smell and taste is often an early and enduring symptom of COVID-19. Now, research suggests that for many COVID survivors with ...
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Boy dies after developing coronavirus symptoms within hours after arriving in Hawaii HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaii has recorded its first COVID-related death of a child. Officials say the boy was less than 10 years old with underlying health conditions. Health experts say this should serve as a wake-up call. While severe cases of COVID-19 ...
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Common Complication of Pregnancy Tied to Higher Stroke Risk Later By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Having preeclampsia during pregnancy significantly increases a woman's future risk of stroke, researchers say. Preeclampsia happens when a woman with ...
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CDC Says Vaccinated Can Shed Masks Outside, Except in Crowds By Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Fully vaccinated Americans can now go without masks when walking, jogging or biking outdoors, or when dining with small groups at outdoor restaurants, U.S. ...
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How B cells fight the COVID-19 virus They also discovered a new antibody, BG10-19, which neutralizes the virus, variants of concern such as ones first identified in the UK and South Africa, and the coronavirus that caused the 2003 SARS outbreak.
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When Vaccines Become an Internet Personality Test It feels very American to turn the vaccine rollout into a branding spectacle rooted in the worship of pharmaceutical companies.
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We vetted popular at-home COVID-19 tests. Here's what we learned. Since the coronavirus pandemic's earliest days, public health experts have agreed that intercepting and minimizing outbreaks would hinge on our ability to answer a seemingly simple question: Do I have the virus? Compared to this time ...
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BioNTech boss: Europe will reach herd immunity this summer Europe can achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus within three to four months, the head of German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which developed the first widely approved COVID-19 vaccine with U.S. partner Pfizer, said Wednesday. While the ...
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Arizona reports 682 new COVID-19 cases and 8 new known deaths, continuing relative plateau Arizona reported 682 new COVID-19 cases and eight new known deaths on Tuesday as metrics such as case counts and hospitalizations for the disease continue to hold steady. Arizona's seven-day case rate per 100,000 people ranked 42nd on Monday ...
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Patient and Provider Safety is at the Core of Mass COVID-19 Immunization Effort We are now in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the virus is now better understood, outcomes in reducing transmission, morbidity, and mortality of the virus can be enhanced by following proper precautions, such as safe distancing and ...
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Scientists, doctors slam Hungarian government criticism of western vaccines BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian scientists and doctors have warned against relying on numbers released by the government that suggested Russian and Chinese COVID-19 shots were more effective than Western ones, the latest twist in the country's ...
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Pandemic May Be Upping Cases of Severe Complication in Kids With Diabetes By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, April 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. hospital has seen a surge in the number of kids with a life-threatening complication of type 2 diabetes. The trend at Children's Hospital Los Angeles ...
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North Carolina couple attacked by bobcat discuss rabies treatment, aftermath of viral video With a pet carrier in hand, Kristi Wade walked outside her home in Burgaw, North Carolina, about to take her 15-year-old cat to the vet when she let out a scream. Her husband, Happy, sprang into action as something attacked her. "To be quite honest with you ...
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UPDATE 1-With few travellers, Thailand turns airport into vaccination centre (Recasts with vaccinations, adds byline, details). BANGKOK, April 28 (Reuters) - Long queues have returned to Thailand's unusually quiet international airport this week, after it converted its check-in area into an immunisation centre as part of efforts to speed ...
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3 reasons indoor public masking is still important — even if you're vaccinated Two people wear masks at the Oculus in New York City. Public indoor masking will continue to be important for now, experts say, regardless of people's vaccination status. Noam ...
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COVID in Florida: 5271 new infections, 46 more residents dead Florida's resident death toll from coronavirus rose to 34,958 with the addition of 46 more reported fatalities on Tuesday while also adding 5,271 more positive COVID-19 cases to bring the total to 2,217,368. Including non-Florida resident deaths, the state's ...
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Due to shorter life expectancy, patients with kidney failure had shorter employment Patients on maintenance dialysis in Taiwan were employed for fewer years during their lifetime than individuals from the general population without kidney failure. Yu-Tzu Chang, MD, PhD, of National Cheng Kung University, and colleagues, attribute the ...
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King County likely to move back to COVID reopening phase 2, public health director says King County should plan on being moved back to the second phase of Washington's three-phase COVID-19 reopening plan, forcing restaurants, churches, gyms, museums and theaters to trim their capacity, the county's director of public health said Tuesday.
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Nearly 150000 Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes to Be Unleashed in Florida The release is part of an experiment to help combat a disease-transmitting local mosquito population (the Aedes aegypti mosquito species) that is responsible for "virtually all mosquito-borne diseases transmitted to humans" such as dengue, Zika and yellow ...
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Single dose of Astrazeneca or Pfizer/Biontech COVID-19 vaccine cuts infections by 65% LONDON – A large scale U.K. study looking at the impact of COVID-19 vaccinations on antibody responses and new infections in 373,402 people in the general population has shown a single dose of vaccine cut infections by 65%. Symptomatic infections fell ...
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The world is hungry for mRNA COVID vaccines like Pfizer's, but short of vital components COVID mRNA vaccine manufacturing starts with making the "messenger RNA," the instructions that tell our cells to make the coronavirus' spike proteins. The mRNA is produced in reactor vessels, where protein enzymes track along a DNA template and copy ...
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Millions of Americans have missed their second Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine dose appointments "It's almost like, I guess, maybe an emotional decision. I think it was a combination of, you know, maybe a little bit of peer pressure as well. Like you see other people doing it," Lee told CBS News' Adriana Diaz.
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CDC Says Many Americans Can Now Go Outside Without a Mask NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don't need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers.
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Vaccines cut household COVID-19 transmission by up to a half, English data shows LONDON (Reuters) - COVID-19 vaccines deployed in England can cut transmission of the coronavirus in households by up to a half, data from Public Health England (PHE) showed on Wednesday, in addition to the protection the shots offer against ...
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UK COVID-19 Update: 1 in 4 Adults Have Had 2 Jabs, 'No Capacity' for Public Inquiry, NHS 'Rescue Plan' Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi tweeted that a quarter of adults have now had both doses of a coronavirus vaccine. The news came as the NHS COVID-19 vaccine booking system was made available ...
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Boy dies from COVID on Hawaii vacation with fully vaccinated parents, officials say A boy died from COVID-19 while on vacation in Hawaii with his fully vaccinated parents, marking the first child death from coronavirus in the state, officials said. The boy, who was 10 years ...
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CBS anchor 'so confused' by Becerra's insistence vaccinated people still wear masks Fox News medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat argues 'clear guidance' on coronavirus will lead to 'compliance with safety measures.' CBS anchor Gayle King called herself "so confused" ...
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Scientists find evidence of human-to-cat COVID-19 transmission The study, published in Veterinary Record, a peer-reviewed veterinary medical journal, analyzed swabs taken from cats for routine testing of common cat viruses including feline herpes virus. Through testing they were able to identify ...
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Orange County officials put digital vaccine records on hold How Orange County might provide people proof they've received a COVID-19 vaccine is in limbo, after county supervisors heard numerous complaints alleging a proposed digital record would violate people's privacy or allow them to be tracked somehow.
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COVID: Experts say six-foot social distancing rule misses bigger risks April 27, 2021 at 4:30 p.m.. Originally Published: 27 APR 21 19:12 ET. By Maggie Fox, CNN. (CNN) — When ...
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Self-reported HPV vaccination rates 'low,' but increase over time Data also showed that overall HPV vaccination rates among men trailed behind women. Self-reported HPV vaccination rates among young men and women aged 18 to 21 years Reference: Chen MM, et ...
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Only one in four people experience mild systemic side effects from COVID-19 vaccines The analysis by researchers from King's College London of data from the ZOE COVID Symptom Study app reassuringly found much fewer side effects in the general population with both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines than reported in trials.
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Spotify is okay with Joe Rogan's anti-vaccine remarks In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the world's most popular podcaster suggests that healthy young people don't need the COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to the advice of health professionals trying to stem a pandemic that's killed more than 3 ...
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Head Injury, Alzheimer's Appear to Affect Brain in Similar Ways "These findings are the first to suggest that cognitive impairment following a traumatic brain injury is useful for predicting the magnitude of Alzheimer's-like brain degradation," said study author Andrei Irimia. He is an assistant ...
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AP PHOTOS: Vaccine teams do house calls for Rome's homebound ROME (AP) — The doctor and nurse manage just 12 shots a day — six in the morning, six in the afternoon — visiting Rome's home-bound elderly to administer COVID-19 vaccines and, with them, the hope that Italy's most fragile might soon emerge from the ...
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