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Another US Covid-19 surge may look different, experts say, particularly for younger people. Here's how (CNN) Experts say Covid-19 vaccinations in the United States are going extremely well -- but more people need to be protected and the country may be at the start of another surge. Over the weekend, the number of vaccinations reported in a single day by the ...
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Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Coronavirus Vaccine A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.
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Vaccinating Adults Appears to Protect Children Around Them; Bar Opening Event Linked to 46 COVID-19 Cases (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. Vaccinating adults appears to protect children as well. New data ...
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Doctors' Group Says Antibiotics Can Be Taken for Shorter Periods TUESDAY, April 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of Americans have at some point in their lives gotten a long course of antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection. But according to new recommendations from a major U.S. doctors' group, some of the most ...
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Colorado Researcher Offers Answers For Those With Vaccine Hesitancies AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – Researchers helping the COVID-19 vaccine become a reality as quickly as possible say that was their plan all along because it was essential to fighting this virus long after it had started a pandemic. They argue there are multiple ...
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As states expand vaccines, prisoners still lack access This week, Florida expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines to all residents 16 and older. But across the state, more than 70,000 people still don't have access to the vaccine. Those men and women are Florida state prisoners. More than half the country has ...
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Illinois bar opening event linked to 46 Covid-19 cases, a school closure and hospitalization, CDC report says (CNN) A rural Illinois bar opening event in February was linked to a Covid-19 outbreak of at least 46 cases, a school closure and the hospitalization of a long-term care facility resident, according to a United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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AHA News: For Heart Patients, Bariatric Surgery May Lower Risk of Future Cardiovascular Problems By American Heart Association News HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, April 5, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Bariatric surgery can be a difficult decision for treating obesity, as patients and their doctors weigh the risks and side effects ...
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Woman Gets New Windpipe In Groundbreaking Transplant Surgery The trachea is basically a tube that transports air to and from the lungs, so you might think it would be easy to transplant. But not so. In fact, trachea transplants have been one of the last big challenges in this area of medicine.
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Tackling Misconceptions That Result in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Because of the consequences of COVID-19 infection, several vaccines were developed and recently granted emergency use authorization (EUA) by the FDA for the prevention of symptomatic infection.9 However, as public ...
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CDC inquiry sought on HIV outbreak in WVa's largest county CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday submitted a congressional inquiry with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding an HIV outbreak in West Virginia's largest county. The West Virginia Democrat asked for the inquiry ...
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CDC inquiry sought on HIV outbreak in WVa's largest county U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has submitted a congressional inquiry with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding an HIV outbreak in West Virginia's largest county. By JOHN RABY Associated Press. April 5, 2021, 11:38 AM. • 3 min read. Share to ...
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Op-Ed: Why Redfield Is Wrong on SARS-CoV-2 Origins The other, pushed by a vocal minority, holds that the virus was being secretly researched at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a major research center, before escaping the lab through the accidental infection of a lab worker.
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Strain of COVID Care Has Many Health Professionals Looking for an Exit By Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- After the pandemic, the next great health care challenge in the United States could be retaining highly trained doctors, nurses and scientists, a new study warns.
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With quickened vaccination pace, US races against COVID variants "As of today, nearly 1 in 3 Americans and over 40% of adults have at least 1 shot," said Andy Slavitt, the White House senior advisor for COVID response. "One in four adults are fully vaccinated. But the worst thing we could do right now is mistake progress for ...
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Vermont to Give Minority Residents Vaccine Priority By Phil Galewitz. [UPDATED]. States have tried with limited success to get covid vaccines to people of color, who have been disproportionately killed and hospitalized by the virus. Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave Black adults and people from other ...
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Allen Foundation grant boosts COVID-19 vaccination in vulnerable Seattle-area communities The grant will allow the medical teams to administer about 20,000 shots to people in vulnerable and hard-to-reach communities, said Dr. Lisa Chew, a leader of the Harborview and UW Medicine project.
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More Mass. residents now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine as state moves closer to normalcy The state has said that expanding vaccine appointments to the new age group and those with one qualifying health condition allowed an additional 1 million additional residents to make vaccination appointments on Monday. According to data from the Centers ...
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Vaccinating adults appears to protect children around them; bar opening event linked to 46 COVID-19 cases (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. FILE PHOTO: A medical worker vaccinates a man against the ...
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COVID Variant May Become Dominant Strain In US: 5 Things To Know ACROSS AMERICA — One of America's top epidemiologists warns of a possible fourth surge of the coronavirus pandemic this summer, fueled in part by a more-infectious variant of the virus. Michael Osterholm, a former member of President Joe Biden's ...
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New virus strains cause worry among Orange County officials, but vaccine inventory may increase Rising numbers of more contagious and aggressive coronavirus variants in Central Florida and throughout the U.S. have prompted a national push for increased surveillance of new infections by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as vaccinations ...
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Pasco County Rescinds Executive Order Mandating Face Masks PASCO COUNTY, FL — Opponents of mandatory face masks are breathing a sign of relief following Pasco County government's announcement Monday that it is rescinding its executive order requiring that face masks be worn in most indoor public places.
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Stress on the front lines of covid-19 Worry, exhaustion, constantly changing safety rules and long hours of wearing PPE are just a few things America's health-care workers cite as the hardest parts of going to work on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Their work has saved countless ...
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UCSD Researchers Map Out Brain Connectivity For Motor Functions But when signaling in the basal ganglia is weakened or broken, debilitating movement and psychiatric disorders can emerge, including Parkinson's disease, Tourette's syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In ...
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24-Year-Old Needed Double Lung and Kidney Transplants After 'Fighting for His Life' with COVID At 24 years old and with no preexisting conditions, Colby Vondenstein should have been at low-risk for a severe case of COVID-19. But after contracting the virus, like so many Americans this year ...
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Vaccine Passports: What They Are and Why You May Need One Soon Countries across the globe have begun announcing "vaccine passports," allowing their citizens to use proof of vaccination to travel once again. China unveiled its digital vaccine passport last month to be accessed via an app ...
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Florida reports 36 coronavirus resident deaths, 3480 new cases Florida's resident death toll from coronavirus rose to 33,710 with the addition of 36 more reported fatalities on Monday while also adding 3,480 more positive COVID-19 cases to bring the total to 2,085,306. Infections have fallen below 5,000 for two days in a ...
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Manchin asks CDC to look into West Virginia HIV outbreak Kent Carper, president of the Kanawha County Commission, said in a statement that the outbreak "is an important public health issue and is deserving of our full understanding." ADVERTISEMENT.
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33 states now offering COVID-19 vaccination to all adults Twelve additional states opened coronavirus vaccinations to everyone over the age of 16, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's vaccine tracker, bringing the nationwide total to 33. As of Monday, Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, ...
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A virus races through the horse world. No, not that virus. The gray Irish Sport Horse, named McCoy, tested negative for an illness currently devastating European equestrian sports. An outbreak of a neurological form of the common equine herpes virus has killed nearly 20 horses and sickened over 100 more. It has ...
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Vaccinating adults appears to protect children around them; bar opening event linked to 46 COVID-19 cases New data from Israel, where health officials moved quickly to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and partner BioNTech, suggests that the vaccination of adults also protects unvaccinated people living around them. Roughly one ...
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A New Double Mutant Variant of COVID Was Detected in California—Here's What We Know So Far This particular variant, which Indian health officials called a "double mutant" in a news release, has two mutations in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and has caused about 20% of new cases in India's Maharashtra region.
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Dr. Drew faces backlash after saying vaccine passports 'strip' people of their freedom The 62-year-old addiction medicine specialist added he encourages people to get the vaccine, but questioned, how people would, "feel if international travel also required other vaccinations?" Will you need ...
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Jeffco no longer requires masks in public outdoor spaces The health department made the change, effective immediately, due to the county's progress with getting residents vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a JCPH press release.
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'COVID orphans': Many children have lost at least one parent to COVID-19, research estimates Related video above: School counselors try to help students dealing with anxiety, depression in pandemic. More than a year into the pandemic, children's lives may be starting to look more like pre-pandemic times as an increasing number of people get ...
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Concern rises over COVID-19 variant as 16 young children infected in Dane County child care center outbreak The B.1.1.7 variant, which was first identified in the United Kingdom, has been found in cases associated with the center, according to Public Health Madison and Dane County. The virus spread ...
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COVID-19 Deaths 11 Times Higher Among Working-Age Latino Immigrants, USC Study Says "The CDC says that Hispanics, overall, are 2.3 times more likely to die than non-Hispanics. Yet when we looked at this specific, working-age group, we were astonished to see much higher disparities.'' ...
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Arizona gets $65.8 million from CDC to expand local vaccine efforts The money is meant to supplement local work at increasing vaccine uptake and improving equity and access for those disproportionately impacted by the virus. The funding is from a pool of $3 billion being awarded to 64 jurisdictions ...
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COVID In Colorado: Jeffco Public Health Relaxes Mask Mandate For Outdoor Activities JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Jefferson County Public Health announced face masks will not be required in outdoor public spaces in the county. The change takes effect April 5 until May 6 unless otherwise changed. Public health officials in the ...
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Deep dive into key COVID-19 protein is a step toward new drugs, vaccines CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Science have taken a key step toward new drugs and vaccines for combating COVID-19 with a deep dive into one protein's interactions with SARS-CoV-2 genetic material. The virus' ...
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Study refutes theory that blood type affects COVID risk A or B, AB or O, it doesn't matter—your blood type has nothing to do with your risk of contracting severe COVID-19, a new study concludes. Early in the pandemic, some reports suggested people with A-type blood were more susceptible to COVID, while those ...
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When Can You Be Required to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine? Complex questions underlie the legality of vaccine mandates. Public misperceptions blur the lines between voluntary, mandated, and compelled vaccinations, highlighting controversial gray-area cases. Though often used interchangeably, public health law ...
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What to know about new virus detected in India that's in SF Bay Area The Clinic Virology Lab at Stanford Health Care detected the variant and believes it is the first instance identified in the United States, according to KRON. The variant found in India features a combination of two ...
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Arizona Finds 608 New Virus Cases but No Deaths for 2nd Day PHOENIX (AP) — Health officials in Arizona have reported 608 more confirmed COVID-19 cases but no additional deaths for the second consecutive day. The state release of new figures Monday bring its pandemic totals to 844,910 cases and 16,990 deaths.
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173 more COVID-19 cases, 1 death, 2K vaccinations reported Monday in Utah There are now 121 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah including 47 in intensive care, state data shows. About 64% of all intensive care unit hospital beds in Utah are now occupied, including about 67% of ICU beds in the state's 16 referral ...
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Community outbreak of COVID-19 linked to indoor bar opening event Forty-six cases of COVID-19 were traced back to an indoor bar opening event in a rural Illinois county. The outbreak led to a school closure and the hospitalization of a long-term care facility resident, according to results published in MMWR. "Event attendees ...
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Children now playing 'huge role' in spread of COVID-19 variant, expert says New developments in the COVID-19 pandemic has one leading epidemiologist re-evaluating his own advice. Dr. Michael Osterholm is the Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. He was also a member ...
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DHEC Epidemiologist: Another COVID-19 surge in SC is a 'top concern' COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - After a couple of months of a steady decline in new COVID-19 cases, deaths, and hospitalizations in South Carolina, a state health leader is concerned this trend might be changing. "I think people are feeling optimistic because we've ...
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Growing concern over COVID-19 variant infecting children (CNN) - Less than 20% of Americans are fully vaccinated and some parts of the United States are seeing concerning increases of COVID-19 cases. Experts are raising the alarm about a virus variant that appears to be infecting school-age children and ...
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Few COVID-19 Infections Seen in Vaccinated Health Care Workers TUESDAY, April 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of infection is markedly reduced once health care workers receive the second dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine regimen, according to two research letters published online March 23 in the New ...
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