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CDC reversal on indoor masking prompts experts to ask, 'Where's the data?' Because tests showed similar levels of virus in the vaccinated and unvaccinated, the CDC inferred the delta variant can be transmitted by people with breakthrough infections.
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What the CDC's 'substantial' and 'high' levels of Covid-19 transmission actually mean (CNN) Health guidance issued Tuesday recommends that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors if they're in areas with "substantial" or "high" transmission of Covid-19. But what do "substantial" and "high" actually mean? The two terms are part of the US ...
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COVID Symptoms May Linger In Some Vaccinated People Who Get Infected, Study Finds There's more potentially worrisome news for vaccinated people: In very rare cases, people experiencing breakthrough infections may be at risk for long-COVID symptoms. That's according to a small new study of fully vaccinated health care workers in Israel, ...
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CDC's new masking guidance prompted by science that emerged in just the last several days, Walensky says (CNN) The CDC's decision to change its mask guidance this week was prompted by scientists' determination -- only days old -- that vaccinated people with breakthrough Delta coronavirus variant infections can pass the virus to others, the center's director said ...
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Masks Give Vaccines a Better Fighting Chance America's split with masks turned out to be a brief hiatus. After getting their shots in the spring and early summer, many people figured they could dump their face coverings for good—a sentiment the CDC crystallized ...
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Eating foods high in flavonoids could slow down cognitive decline, a study says Strawberries are a great source of flavonoids. (CNN) Eating a plate full of colorful foods like strawberries and peppers, which include flavonoids, could ...
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'It breaks my heart' that Alabama could lose children to a preventable virus, doctor says Below, Assistant State Health Officer Dr. Karen Landers with the Alabama Department of Public Health discusses COVID-19 misinformation as one of the leading causes of people refusing to get vaccinated, why schools should require children to wear masks ...
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UCHealth Requires COVID Vaccine For All Employees, Volunteers AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)– UCHealth is requiring all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 1. That includes all employees, providers, volunteers and partners. The reason for the vaccine mandate is to "increase safety for all patients, visitors and ...
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CDC Mask Guidance Met With Hostility by Leading Republicans From Texas to South Dakota, Republican leaders responded with hostility and defiance to updated masking guidance from public health officials, who advise that even fully vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors if they live in areas with high rates of ...
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Covid-19: Walk-in vaccine clinic for pregnant women launched The Northern Trust, South Eastern Trust and Belfast Trust all confirmed an increased number of cases among maternity patients. It comes as figures obtained by BBC News NI revealed an increase in the ...
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Latin America risks other outbreaks as Covid interferes with prevention and treatment. The coronavirus pandemic is opening the way for other preventable diseases to surge across Latin America and the Caribbean, interfering with routine inoculations and medical treatment in one of the world's hardest-hit regions, World Health Organization ...
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New Vaccinations Are Rebounding in the US's Covid Hot Spots Some of the most vaccine-resistant parts of the U.S. are now leading the country in the number of people getting a first dose of vaccine, a Bloomberg analysis shows, as surging infections and rising hospitalizations push formerly reluctant Americans to protect ...
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Mississippi Health System Buckles Under 'Astounding' Rise in COVID Cases By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- An "astounding" rise in COVID-19 cases in Mississippi is putting intense strain on the state's health care system. Compared to the first half of July, the number ...
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Coffee, Kale vs. Processed Meat: How Certain Foods Can Affect COVID-19 Risks Researchers report that the foods in your diet can increase or decrease risks associated with COVID-19. They said that foods such as coffee and kale, as well as breast milk, can reduce COVID-19 risks because they keep inflammation in the body in check.
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Vaccinated Americans Express 'Anger' with Those Who Refuse COVID Vaccines: 'An Outrage' Diane Clehane, an author and journalist from Greenwich, Connecticut, had planned to go to restaurants and enjoy her favorite meals indoors, travel on the train to New York City to attend the theater and finally take a pandemic-postponed trip to Ireland.
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California Follows CDC, Advises Indoor Masks for Vaccinated SAN DIEGO (AP) — California's public health agency recommended on Wednesday that people wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status, while more employers announced that workers must be vaccinated or face testing.
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North Carolina Requiring State Health Workers to Get Vaccine RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's health department will require workers, volunteers and others at 14 state-run health care facilities to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Sept. 30 unless they qualify for a medical or religious exemption, according to a ...
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Oregon coronavirus update, July 28: Workplace, nursing home outbreaks rising We'll update this story with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Oregon on Wednesday, July 28. This story has been updated: There were 274 hospitalized patients Wednesday. The Oregon Health ...
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Beaumont, Spectrum to require COVID-19 vaccines for workers Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health on Wednesday became the latest hospital systems in Michigan to require the COVID-19 vaccine for staff and others as cases of a new strain of the virus rise in the state. "We have a duty to protect our patients and our ...
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Allegheny County officials won't rule out local mask mandate Per the CDC's covid tracker, Allegheny County remains below the high-transmission threshold in both categories: case rates and positivity rate. The case rate, 17 cases per 100,000 people, puts the county in the moderate transmission zone, said Dr. Debra ...
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Oregon hospitals brace for new surge in COVID-19 patients; some delay surgeries As the pandemic approaches what could be a dangerous new surge, Oregon hospital officials worry they lack the staff and the space to adequately respond. Hospitals, already depleted by the pandemic, have been flooded with acutely ill patients this spring, ...
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UAB to again require masks on campus With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increasing around the state, the University of Alabama at Birmingham will again require masks on campus. Starting Thursday, both vaccinated and unvaccinated people will need to mask up in public settings.
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Outbreak Alabama: How the Delta variant and COVID misinformation are harming our state Today we hear from Assistant State Health Officer Dr. Karen Landers with the Alabama Department of Public Health to discuss several issues related to COVID-19, the vaccine and the Delta variant, which continues to run rampant in Alabama.
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Why We May Be Missing Cases of Long COVID-19 in Vaccinated People chronic fatigue; breathing problems; brain fog; heart palpitations; dizziness; lightheadedness. Estimates from the United Kingdom suggest that between 20 to 80 percent of people who contract SARS-CoV-2 develop long ...
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COVID still devastating in the Americas, health agency says BRASILIA, July 28 (Reuters) - COVID-19 continues to inflict a devastating toll on the Americas, with Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador and Paraguay among the countries with the world's highest weekly death rates, the Pan American Health Organization ...
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Pfizer says vaccine's power wanes over time. Are you still protected? Pfizer says vaccine's power wanes over time. Are you still protected? New research from Pfizer found a drop-off in protection after six months, though the vaccines remained highly effective against severe illness ...
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Arkansas Hospital Says Not a Single ICU Patient is Vaccinated as Delta Surges "The vast majority of patients that are in the hospital are not vaccinated," Dr. Eric Bravo, the medical director of Baptist Health's hospitalist program, told Newsweek on Wednesday. "I would say, I have not personally seen anybody in the ICU that's been ...
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COVID-19 updates: Dallas County and Texas both report highest number of daily cases since early February Dallas County Health and Human Services reported nearly 1,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, as well as five deaths, which included a teenage girl. The exact new case count for Wednesday ...
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Oregon reports 804 new cases, 6 more deaths The following information was released about the six deaths: Oregon's 2,844th COVID-19 death was an 81-year-old woman from Lane County who tested positive on June 26 and died on ...
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Larimer County's COVID-19 case rate has tripled since June. Here's what that means. And, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19, cases will continue to tick up if more people don't get fully vaccinated, Larimer County Public Health Director Tom Gonzales said in an interview with the Coloradoan on Wednesday.
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Delta variant found in Muskegon County where new COVID-19 cases are accelerating MUSKEGON, MI – Muskegon County is the latest county to report a case of the Delta variant of COVID-19. Public Health-Muskegon County reported the case on Wednesday, July 28, and indicated there likely are more than just one in the county. Kathy Moore ...
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Covid-19 cases rise in Cayuga County; many won't help contact tracers "A lack of accurate information sharing can be paralyzing in our response to control the spread of the virus and limit the number of new cases from each exposure," said Kathleen Cuddy, Cayuga County Public Health Director.
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UCHealth, Denver Health, Banner Health to require vaccinations for all employees UCHealth's deadline for vaccinations will be Oct. 1 and Denver Health's will be on Nov. 1. This means all employees will have to receive two doses of Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine prior to the deadlines.
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Spectrum Health, Ascension Borgess to mandate COVID-19 vaccine for all employees GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Spectrum Health, a Grand Rapids-based health system with 31,000 employees and 14 hospitals, says it will require all staff, volunteers and contractors to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo is also ...
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Two More Health Systems Mandate Employee Virus Vaccinations LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two of Michigan's largest health systems will require all employees and physicians at their hospitals and other facilities to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Oregon sees over 800 new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations continue to rise The Oregon Health Authority has identified 217,690 confirmed and presumptive cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began. The OHA also reported six more COVID-related deaths, bringing the state's death toll to 2,849.
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Allegheny County Isn't Getting A Mask Mandate 'Yet,' Officials Say "We're going to closely monitor to see where [the case numbers] go. The CDC has come out with their recommendations and we think people should certainly follow those recommendations," he said at the county's regular Health Department press conference ...
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COVID Breakthrough Cases Ran the Gamut in Healthcare Workers Breakthrough COVID-19 cases in fully vaccinated healthcare workers were rare, and generally were associated with the individual's immune response to the vaccine in the early days of infection, an Israeli study found. In 39 breakthrough infections of ...
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All Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital employees will now be required to get COVID-19 vaccine Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital announced Tuesday that it will now require all of its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 after the health care system underwent a "thorough moral and ethical analysis," according to a news release. The new ...
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California again recommending masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status, as COVID cases spike State officials said they were following the lead of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which reversed course on masking rules Tuesday and advised fully vaccinated people to mask up in public indoor settings in areas where transmission is ...
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Wheeler calls for vaccine proof or weekly tests for city workers PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Health officials in Oregon logged another 804 cases of the coronavirus Wednesday as Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler calls for city workers to show proof of vaccination or submit to weekly tests. The new cases reported on ...
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First COVID death in 7 weeks reported in Cleveland County as cases spike SHELBY, N.C. — After months of seeing COVID-19 trends on the decline, Cleveland County is now experiencing a rapid increase in the spread of the virus. According to a release, the Cleveland County Health Department received a report on Monday of a ...
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Experts Address Masking (Again), Delta Variant and Convincing Vaccine Skeptics The rampaging COVID-19 Delta variant has become a lethal threat in the U.S. and elsewhere and threatens to undo much of the progress made over the last several months as vaccines led to a drop in hospitalizations. With infection rates rising again, two ...
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Baylor Scott & White Health will require its 40000 workers to get COVID vaccines DALLAS — Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest nonprofit hospital system in Texas, will require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as surges in the delta variant raise health risks statewide, the company said Wednesday. Baylor has 40,386 ...
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Oregon Health Authority recommends masks indoors as virus cases surge The Oregon Health Authority has recommended that people wear masks in indoor public settings as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations grow across the state. The state's guidance on Tuesday came hours after the federal Centers for Disease Control and ...
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Most Idaho Residents Live in Areas With Mask Recommendation The Post Register reports Wednesday that 27 of Idaho's 44 counties have substantial to high transmission of COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors ...
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Over 25% of new COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County are from fully vaccinated people The California State University system announced Monday it will require all students and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to take part in any in-person classes or activities for the fall term.
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UCHealth to require COVID-19 vaccines All employees, providers and volunteers, and contract staff must have the vaccine by Oct. 1.
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Hamilton County Health Dept. recommends people wear masks in public indoor settings The health department cited low COVID-19 vaccination rates and high transmission of the virus countywide. The announcement comes a day after the CDC said fully vaccinated people should wear a mask in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high ...
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SC Officials Looking for Rabid Puppy's Lost Littermate The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said Friday that the agency recently identified a rabid puppy that was born in Edgefield County, near Lanier Road in the town of Johnston.
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