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What you need to know about the highly contagious delta variant How will the delta variant affect the U. S.? Do symptoms from delta infections differ from infections from other strains of the coronavirus? Will booster shots be needed?
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With Delta variant spreading, experts split on whether to test vaccinated people for Covid-19 "I think now we should revisit this policy with the Delta variant and determine if the current recommendations hold up," Hotez wrote in an email to CNN on Wednesday. Plus, the CDC is only reporting data on "breakthrough" infections that cause severe disease.
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Scientists condemn UK's 'dangerous and unethical' reopening plans (CNN) Calling it a "dangerous and unethical experiment," more than 4,000 scientists, doctors, nurses and other professionals signed a letter published Wednesday condemning the British government's plans to drop most pandemic control measures on ...
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Colorado's Mesa County Emerges as Hot Spot for Delta Variant GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Dr. Rachel LaCount grasped a metal hoop at a playground and spun in circles with her 7-year-old son, turning the distant mesas of the Colorado National Monument into a red-tinged blur.
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Sickle cell children are living longer than ever, but as adults they face challenges to get basic care When her daughter was little, Pamela Madu quit her job as a teacher to be a nurse so she could better understand what doctors were telling her about her daughter's serious blood disorder. Elechi Madu, now 16, has sickle cell disease, a genetic condition that ...
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Yes, the delta variant is taking over. But the vaccines still work. Monica Gandhi, an infectious-diseases specialist, is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. July 8, 2021|Updated ...
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Cold weather virus in summer baffles docs, worries parents The recent emergence of a virus that typically sickens children in colder months has baffled U.S. pediatricians and put many infants in the hospital with troublesome coughs and breathing trouble. RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a common cause of ...
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About 160 Covid-19 infections are linked to a Texas church youth camp -- including cases of the Delta variant Samples from some of the infections are being tested to see whether they were caused by the Delta strain -- which is now the dominant variant in the US, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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1 in 20 College Students Has 'Internet Gaming Disorder,' Study Finds By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, July 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Is it possible to become addicted to gaming on the internet? Yes, warns new research that discovered when young people get too hooked it may trigger sleep ...
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The Latest: Soccer May Explain More Cases in England's Men A British coronavirus infection survey indicates that men gathering to watch England's progress in soccer's European Championship may be a reason why women were less likely to test positive for the virus in recent days. By Associated Press. |. July 8, 2021.
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Delta Becomes Dominant Coronavirus Variant in US "Right now we have two Americas: the vaccinated and the unvaccinated," Paul Offit, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, told NPR. "We're feeling pretty ...
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Indonesia, Thailand consider booster shots amid doubts over Sinovac vaccine BANGKOK/JAKARTA, July 8 (Reuters) - Indonesia and Thailand are considering offering a booster shot to their medical workers immunized with Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine, a move likely to reduce public trust in the Chinese product that has been their main ...
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Global Warming Means Spread of Malaria, Dengue By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Climate change could put billions more people at risk for deadly mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue, researchers said. They see the ...
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US death rates are falling for many types of cancer, but not all, report says (CNN) US death rates from cancer continued to decline from 2014 to 2018, driven mostly by drops in deaths from lung cancer and melanoma, according to a new report published Thursday. But America's collective lack of exercise and poor diet may have ...
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Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today Researchers are trying to discern whether vaccines work on the Delta variant.
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Global Covid-19 death toll surpasses 4 million (CNN) More than 4 million people around the world have died of Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In total, three countries account for more than a third of all global deaths. The United States, which has the highest number of fatalities ...
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California's Highest COVID Infection Rates Shift to Rural Counties The average number of new covid infections reported each day dropped by an astounding 98% from December to June, according to figures from the California Department of Public Health. And ...
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Myocarditis Guidelines for Kids Have Answers for COVID Cases Too Clinical criteria aren't enough to definitively confirm the diagnosis of myocarditis -- that takes cardiac MRI (CMR) or biopsy -- but a combination of clinical and laboratory features can upgrade a case from possible to clinically suspected, they said.
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More Than 100 COVID Cases Linked to Texas Church Camp "Unfortunately, upon return from camp, 125+ campers and adults reported to us that they tested positive for COVID-19," lead pastor Bruce Wesley wrote. "Additionally, hundreds more were exposed to COVID-19 at camp. And hundreds of others were likely ...
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'Fake pills' leave several seriously ill in Swansea hospital Fake prescription anti-anxiety pills are thought to have left several people seriously ill in hospital. Swansea Bay health board said they were taken to Morriston Hospital after overdosing on Wednesday.
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Malaria and dengue: 8.4 billion people could be at risk by the end of the century- estimates They made their predictions based on different levels of greenhouse gas emissions, population density (to represent urbanisation) and altitude. For malaria, the modelling for the worst-case scenario estimated a total of 8.4 ...
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So, you're a picky eater. How to conquer your food fears – and when to get help Daniel Dawson abhorred olives as a child. Their bitter flavor turned him, well, bitter. Now he's the senior editor for Olive Oil Times, a trade publication dedicated to all things olive oil. "Once I decided that I didn't like a food item, I had a zero-tolerance policy for it ...
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As New York Salutes Health Workers, Missouri Fights a Surge New York has thrown a ticker-tape parade for the health care workers and others who helped the city pull through the darkest days of COVID-19, while authorities in Missouri are struggling to beat back a surge blamed on the fast-spreading delta variant and ...
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Delta Variant Now Behind Over 50% of US Cases By Ernie Mundell and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, July 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The highly contagious Delta variant now accounts for more than half of all new coronavirus infections in the United States, new ...
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UAB expert says low vaccine rates could lead to new lockdowns in Alabama Alabama may see a summer surge of COVID-19 similar to last year's with the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, a top infectious disease expert at UAB says. "Hospitalization rates are increasing exactly as we saw before," said UAB's Dr. Jeanne ...
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Large genomic analysis highlights COVID-19 risk factors A comprehensive summary of their findings to date, published in Nature, reveals 13 loci, or locations in the human genome, that are strongly associated with infection or severe COVID-19. The researchers also identified causal factors such as smoking and high ...
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Expert: Low COVID Vaccination Rate Puts Alabama at Risk MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's low vaccination rate makes the state vulnerable to an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, an infectious disease expert warned Wednesday. Dr ...
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Depression Plagues Many Coal Miners With Black Lung Disease By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Mental health problems and thoughts of suicide are common among U.S. coal miners with black lung disease, a new study finds. Black lung is a progressive ...
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Do I need a COVID-19 booster shot? 6 questions answered on how to stay protected 1. What is a booster shot? Boosters are an extra dose of a vaccine given to maintain vaccine-induced protection against a disease. They are commonly used to bolster many vaccines because immunity can ...
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7 questions about Covid-19 booster shots, answered According to a study recently published in Nature, people who received mRNA vaccines — Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna — may have such lasting immunity that they won't need boosters for years. That's great news, ...
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The danger of the Delta variant July 8, 2021 – The Delta variant of the coronavirus has been spreading rapidly throughout the U.S. and worldwide. William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology and a faculty member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. ...
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As New York salutes health workers, Missouri fights a surge "We've got a lot to appreciate, because we're well underway in our recovery," declared New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who rode on a parade float with hospital employees down the Canyon of Heroes, the skyscraper-lined stretch of Broadway where astronauts, ...
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'There is nothing else to do': Get vaccinated to avert delta variant, Arizona health officials say First lady Jill Biden speaks after a tour of a Phoenix vaccination site on June 30. COVID-19 vaccination rates in Arizona lag the U.S. average, case numbers are up and the state's health ...
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COVID-19 vaccines can affect mammograms: Sheinelle and Jill Martin share experiences The coronavirus vaccines, along with several other vaccines, can lead to temporarily swollen lymph nodes, raising false alarms for women during mammograms. TODAY's 3rd hour co-host Sheinelle Jones and Shop TODAY contributor Jill Martin said that they ...
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Culex Mosquitoes Found In Weld County Test Positive For West Nile Virus There are no medications to treat or vaccines to prevent WNV infection. Less than 1% of infected people develop a serious, sometimes fatal, neuroinvasive illness. Health officials recommend following the four "D's" to prevent mosquito bites:.
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Scientists Track Spirituality in the Human Brain "It is something of a treacherous subject to navigate," said lead researcher Michael Ferguson, a principal investigator at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston. Spirituality and ...
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Immunocompromised? Why the COVID-19 vaccine might still protect you (HealthDay)—COVID-19 vaccinations may not offer as much protection to people with compromised immune systems, but just how much appears to be driven by the type of underlying condition, new research suggests. "People with conditions that ...
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Tarrant County Partners with Fort Worth Zoo on COVID-19 Vaccine Pop-Up Clinics The Fort Worth Zoo has partnered with Tarrant County Public Health as a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic until Aug. 4. The clinic, which offers all three vaccinations, opened Wednesday, July 7, and is scheduled to open again on the following dates: July 14, ...
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Moderna's first seasonal flu vaccine slides into clinic as pharma giants crowd into mRNA Now that mRNA technology has the FDA's backing, Moderna has moved on to its next act, a vaccine to improve upon the annual flu shot, as plenty of Big Pharma giants breathe down the biotech's neck.
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Utah's COVID-19 outbreak now 6th worst in the US Utah ranks sixth nationally in the rate of COVID-19 cases, but health care officials say the answer to the surge is getting reluctant residents vaccinated against the deadly virus rather than returning to statewide mask mandates or other restrictions. With eight ...
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Americans Living With HIV Have Near-Normal Life Expectancy: Study TUESDAY, July 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Testing HIV-positive is no longer a certain death sentence, and new research shows that Americans who have HIV today have life spans similar to those of their peers without the virus.
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Near-meat and meat not nutritional equals, study finds Duke Unviersity researchers aren't saying beef is bad. They also aren't saying plant-based meat is better. All they're saying in their new study is that the two are different in regards to nutrition. "To consumers reading nutritional labels, they may appear ...
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COVID Vaccine Protects Cancer Patients -- Second Dose Key The Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine achieved satisfactory levels of seropositivity in patients undergoing treatment for cancer, although protection occurred later compared with a healthy population, Israeli researchers found. Just 29% of cancer ...
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Low-Dose Aspirin Cuts Heart Risks in Patients Battling Pneumonia By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Aspirin has long been taken by heart patients to reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack, but a new study suggests that it can also guard against ...
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Sinovac's Vaccine Found Inferior to Pfizer Shot in Chile Study Sinovac Biotech Ltd.'s vaccine was less potent than Pfizer Inc.'s shot at stopping Covid-19 in Chile where the two shots were used simultaneously, the first real-world analysis comparing a China-made inoculation against an mRNA has found. Researchers ...
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Alpha bad, Delta worse—and Lambda? Why each new COVID variant causes so much alarm Viruses mutate all the time, including the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that's caused the Covid-19 pandemic. Although most genetic changes are innocuous, some can make the mutant more adept at infecting cells, for example, or evading antibodies. Such "fitter" ...
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Cancer death rates have dropped. But experts warn obesity may soon drive the disease. The annual American Cancer Society report, which measures cancer cases and deaths through 2018, paints a mixed picture of the nation's effort to combat the second leading cause of death, said Farhad Islami, the report's lead author and American Cancer ...
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Houston Breakout of Delta COVID Variant Should Be 'Wake-Up Call,' Virologist Says A virologist from Texas A&M University warned that the COVID-19 Delta variant should be a "wake-up call to communities," to prove the success of vaccines and the risks that COVID-19 still poses, as Houston faces an outbreak of the contagious variant.
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The Latest: Soccer may explain more cases in England's men WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Fiji's medical system is showing signs of strain as a coronavirus outbreak grows. The Pacific island nation reported a record 791 new daily cases and three deaths. The Ministry of Health says ...
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School-Based Mindfulness Program Gives Big Boost to Young Kids' Sleep "There is a lot of evidence showing physical and mental health benefits of mindfulness practice and mind-body integration practices such as yoga and breath work," said Christina Chick, a postdoctoral scholar in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford ...
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