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Los Angeles County sees exponential growth in Covid-19 cases as Delta variant becomes dominant, worrying officials While 60% of those over 16 years old have been fully vaccinated, the county's case rate jumped from 1.74 cases to 3.5 cases per 100,000 people in one week, according to a news release from the county Department of Public Health.
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Pfizer sees waning immunity from its Covid-19 vaccine, says developing new booster (CNN) Drugmaker Pfizer said Thursday it is seeing waning immunity from its coronavirus vaccine and says it is picking up its efforts to develop a booster dose that will protect people from variants. It said it would seek emergency use authorization from the US ...
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How does the Delta variant dodge the immune system? Scientists find clues. French researchers tested how well antibodies produced by natural infection and by coronavirus vaccines neutralize the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants, as well as a reference variant similar to the original version of the virus.
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The CDC Issues New School Guidance, With Emphasis on Full Reopening The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidance on Friday urging schools to fully reopen in the fall, even if they cannot take all of the steps the agency recommends to curb the spread of the coronavirus — a major turn in a public health ...
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Citing the Delta Variant, Pfizer Will Pursue Booster Shots and a New Vaccine Vaccine efficacy may decline six months after immunization, the companies said in a news release, and booster doses may be needed to fend off virus variants. The data have not been published, nor peer- ...
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In a Reversal, FDA Calls for Limits on Who Gets Alzheimer's Drug The agency faced criticism for approving Aduhelm for all Alzheimer's patients. The new label recommends that the drug be given only to patients with mild symptoms.
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With Delta Variant Surging In Colorado, A Country Music Festival Goes On LaCount has lived in Grand Junction, Colo., a city of 64,000, nearly her whole life. As a hospital pathologist, she knows better than most that her hometown has become one of the nation's top breeding grounds for the delta variant of COVID-19.
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US Deaths From Cancer Continue to Decline By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, July 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Americans' overall death rate from cancer continues to fall -- but rising rates of certain cancers and ongoing racial disparities linger. Those are among the ...
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Adding MRI to Screening Can Cut Prostate Cancer Overdiagnosis in Half By Robert Preidt and Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- One of the big issues in prostate cancer care is overdiagnosis — men who are treated for low-risk, slow-growing tumors that might be better left ...
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What to Know about Chlorine and If It Kills COVID-19 Chlorine is the chemical found in bleach. If used correctly, household cleaners that contain bleach kill SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Chlorine kills germs by breaking the chemical bonds in their molecules. This causes the molecule to fall apart ...
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Why does COVID-19 impact people in different ways? Genetics play a role, new study finds. The study, published Thursday, confirms or newly identifies 13 genes that appear to play a role in susceptibility to infection or that affect the severity of illness. In a larger dataset, which hasn't ...
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Just one night of sleep loss harms your well-being, new study finds "Consecutive sleep loss was associated with decreases in positive emotions, increases in negative emotions, and greater frequency of severity of physical symptoms," said Soomi Lee, lead author of the study, which published Monday in the Annals of ...
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Picky "vaccine sommeliers" undermine Brazil inoculation campaign, experts say RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, July 9 (Reuters) - One question rippled through the queue outside a makeshift inoculation center in Rio de Janeiro's beachside neighborhood of Copacabana on a recent morning: "Which vaccine are they using?" Despite the ...
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Regular Testing May Be the Best Way to Prevent COVID-19 Outbreaks at Schools They say once a student or adult becomes symptomatic, it's probably too late to prevent a spread of the disease. One expert, however, says testing can be cumbersome and expensive for schools, so masking ...
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Deaths from Lung and Skin Cancer Are Declining: Here's Why Overall deaths from cancer declined 2.2 percent for men and a little less than 2 percent for women over 4 years. Declines in death were consistent for all races and ethnicities. There were significantly greater reductions in lung cancer and skin cancer ...
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More Air Pollution, Worse COVID Outcomes? By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) – The air people breathe – and how much pollution is in it – may make a difference in their outcomes when infected with COVID-19, a new study ...
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Missouri State changes COVID rules as Springfield cases surge. Here's what to know "They will not be able to move into the regular residence hall until they have completed their isolation," Hall wrote. The university also plans to offer voluntary asymptomatic testing to all students on campus.
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Compared With Cancer Patients, Post-COVID-19 Patients Referred for Rehab in Worse Health Adults who previously contracted COVID-19 and were referred to outpatient clinics for physical rehabilitation were more likely to report poorer physical health, poorer mental health and difficulty engaging in various activities than patients referred to rehab ...
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Delta Variant in Nigeria: Covid-19 variant dey spread and kill pipo fast according to WHO Di outbreak of di SARS-COV2 Delta variant wey don spread enta more dan 90 kontris for di world don become cause of worry for di World Health Organization and world leaders. On Thursday, Nigeria National Centre for Disease Control [NCDC] announce ...
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Covid-19 vaccines saved nearly 280000 lives in the US, new research estimates (CNN) Covid-19 vaccines saved hundreds of thousands of lives and prevented more than a million hospitalizations in the United States, according to new estimates from researchers at Yale University and the Commonwealth Fund. The researchers compared ...
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Pfizer to Seek OK for COVID Vaccine Booster Targeting Delta July 8, 2021 -- Pfizer announced Thursday that it will seek FDA authorization for a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as the company acknowledges its two-dose vaccine has shown waning effectiveness against the Delta variant. In a statement, the ...
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Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study The overall risk of children becoming severely ill or dying from Covid is extremely low, a new analysis of Covid infection data confirms. Data from the first 12 months of the pandemic in England shows 25 under-18s died from Covid, putting the overall risk of ...
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Even with New Variants, Experts Say We May Not Need COVID-19 Booster Shots The coronavirus has already gone through many mutations and will continue to evolve over time. Growing evidence suggests the vaccines will provide long lasting immunity, even against new variants. But experts are watching the variants closely to see ...
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Global Consortium Finds Genes That Drive Severe COVID-19 By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Why do some people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have either no or negligible symptoms, while others sicken and die? Scientists who've pinpointed several genetic ...
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FDA updates label on controversial Alzheimer's drug, saying it's only meant for early-stage patients The Food and Drug Administration said the change is intended to address confusion among physicians and patients about who should get the drug, which has faced an intense public backlash since its approval last month. The new ...
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Flossing your teeth may protect against cognitive decline, research shows Maintaining good oral health habits, such as brushing and flossing, may help prevent cognitive impairment and dementia. (CNN) Flossing your teeth isn' ...
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The Delta Variant Isn't Just Hyper-Contagious. It Also Grows More Rapidly Inside You A new study, published online Wednesday, sheds light on why. It finds that the variant grows more rapidly inside people's respiratory tracts and to much higher levels, researchers at the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention report.
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Declines in cancer death rates continue, but not for all common types Experts continued to see a decrease in overall cancer mortality among men and women of all races and ethnicities in the United States toward the end of the last decade, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. The report, which ...
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Why Parents Should Make COVID-19 Vaccination Appointments Now for Children The Pfizer vaccine requires two doses and it takes two weeks after the second shot for full immunity to develop. That means students returning to school in mid-August need to get vaccinated no later than mid ...
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COVID-19 Vaccines and Kids Under 12: What to Know Currently, vaccine manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna are conducting trials in healthy children between the ages of 6 months and 11 years old. These vaccine developers have enrolled thousands of children across the United States, Poland, Finland, and ...
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Amid Virus Rise, Nevada Relying on Push to Vaccinate More Officials say Nevada will have dozens of pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites over the coming weeks and federal workers to help reach out to the unvaccinated as the state confronts a jump in virus cases and hospitalizations. By Associated Press.
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EU finds potential link between mild heart inflammation and mRNA COVID shots Heart conditions myocarditis and pericarditis must be listed as possible side-effects of the two mRNA vaccines, the safety committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said, adding that such cases primarily occurred within 14 days of vaccination.
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Pfizer to seek OK for 3rd vaccine dose; shots still protect Research from multiple countries shows the Pfizer shot and other widely used COVID-19 vaccines offer strong protection against the highly contagious delta variant, which is spreading rapidly around the world and now accounts for most new U.S. infections.
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How the Delta Variant Tore Through an Undervaxxed Gymnastics Center The highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant tore through an Oklahoma gym facility earlier this year, infecting dozens of teenagers, landing one unvaccinated person in the ICU and providing a stark reminder that the fight against COVID-19 is far from ...
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Delta Variant Surges in Colorado as the Bands Play On Despite these alarming signs, many in Mesa County have let down their guard. The rate of eligible residents fully vaccinated has stalled at about 42%. LaCount has noticed that few people wear masks anymore at the grocery store.
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Pfizer to Seek Approval for Booster COVID Shot, But US Agencies Balk at Timing FRIDAY, July 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced Thursday they would seek approval for a booster COVID-19 shot and begin studies on a reformulated vaccine that targets the highly contagious Delta variant. "We continue ...
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Cold weather virus in summer baffles docs, worries parents Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The recent emergence of a virus that typically sickens children in colder months has baffled U.S. pediatricians and ...
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Chinese CoronaVac Vaccine 83.5% Effective Against Symptomatic COVID By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A double dose of China's CoronaVac vaccine is 83.5% effective against symptomatic COVID-19, researchers say. Their phase 3 trial included more than 10,000 ...
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US Deaths From Cancer Continue to Decline THURSDAY, July 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Americans' overall death rate from cancer continues to fall -- but rising rates of certain cancers and ongoing racial disparities linger. Those are among the findings of an annual report to the nation from several ...
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Zika virus: India's Kerala state on alert after 15 cases reported The mosquito-borne virus has been linked to shrunken brains in children and a rare auto-immune disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome. Although the virus is mostly spread by mosquitoes, ...
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Pfizer to Seek Approval for Booster COVID Shot, But US Agencies Balk at Timing FRIDAY, July 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced Thursday they would seek approval for a booster COVID-19 shot and begin studies on a reformulated vaccine that targets the highly contagious Delta variant.
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FDA Trims Use of Contentious Alzheimer's Drug Amid Backlash WASHINGTON (AP) — A month after approving a controversial new Alzheimer's drug, U.S. health regulators on Thursday signed off on new prescribing instructions that are likely to limit its use.
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US COVID Vaccine Rollout Saved 279000 Lives: Study By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccines have prevented at least 279,000 deaths and 1.25 million hospitalizations in the United States, but the Delta variant poses a significant threat to ...
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'Bad Year For Culex Mosquito': West Nile Virus Found In Weld County Mosquitoes Wanick helps set up traps for the pesky insect in counties all over Colorado including Denver and Weld County. Once the samples are collected, they send them off to a state lab for testing.
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Experts differ on need for Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 booster shot Recent research suggests that mRNA vaccines, such as the Pfizer and Moderna, appear to hold up against the delta variant as long as you've been fully vaccinated with two doses. Pfizer reported Thursday that ...
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Heart inflammation link to Pfizer and Moderna jabs The medicines safety body said the benefits of Covid vaccines continue to far outweigh any risks. But doctors and patients have been advised to be aware of the symptoms of heart inflammation.
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COVID Cases Skyrocket In Los Angeles As Pfizer Targets Delta Gov. Gavin Newsom called it a wake-up call to the unvaccinated Wednesday because they account for more than 99 percent of coronavirus deaths in Los Angeles County. At the same time, new research sheds light on how the Delta variant evades the immune ...
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'The numbers are going up.' Sacramento COVID-19 activity spiking amid Delta variant concerns Health officials are expressing increased concern about COVID-19 and the Delta variant in California's capital region, as virus infections and hospitalizations show early signs of spiking from low points enjoyed for most of May and June. "The numbers are ...
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COVID: Risks of severe illness in children shown to be very low in largest study yet One preprint study, published on the medRxiv server, found that 251 young people aged under 18 in England were admitted to intensive care with COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic (until the end of February 2021).
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Diet high in omega-3, low in omega-6 fats can reduce migraine headaches, study finds The findings offer hope for the 1 billion people around the world — including 12% of Americans — who suffer from migraines. MIGRAINE FIGHTING DIET. Good sources of omega-3s include salmon, walnuts and flaxseed oil.TODAY Illustration / Getty Images.
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