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Expert hopes the rise in Covid-19 vaccinations means the US is waking up to the dangers of the Delta variant "People are waking up to this," Director of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Francis Collins told CNN Sunday. "That's what desperately needs to happen if we are going to get this Delta variant put back in its place, because right now it is having a pretty big ...
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Gottlieb says vaccines still effective at preventing serious illness from Delta variant Washington — Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, said COVID-19 vaccines still provide strong protection against serious disease and death, even as new research shows vaccinated individuals can spread the worrying ...
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Concern grows over rise of respiratory virus and Delta infections among children. "After many months of zero or few pediatric Covid cases, we are seeing infants, children and teens with Covid pouring back into the hospital, more and more each day," she wrote, adding that patients have ranged in age from 2 weeks to 17 years old, including ...
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Ron DeSantis, Facing Record COVID Surge, Signals Lockdowns Off the Table With Bhattacharya Tweet The state has emerged as the new epicenter of the virus, accounting for about 20 percent of all new cases in the nation. As the highly contagious Delta variant continues to spread, DeSantis, a Republican who ...
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Delta variant: Could COVID vaccine boosters be here sooner than we thought? Medical studies say that vaccines still protect individuals from the most dangerous effects of COVID. Sara Tew/CNET. For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. During the third week of ...
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Can you still get 'long COVID' if you're fully vaccinated? Here's what we know Also called long-haul COVID, post-acute COVID-19, chronic COVID, or just the long-term effects of COVID, this is a condition where someone infected with COVID may have coronavirus-related symptoms a month or longer after first contracting the pathogen, ...
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San Francisco hospitals report hundreds of COVID-19 infections among vaccinated staff As of August 2, 55 staff members out of over 7,000 staffers at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are COVID-19 positive, and none of the infected staff have required hospitalization, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Fox News. ABC7 reported that up ...
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Healthcare workers, supporters march to Atrium Health in protest of employer-mandated vaccinations CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Hundreds of heathcare workers and supporters are marching to Atrium Health - Main Sunday afternoon to express their displeasure at the healthcare system's new policy. Atrium Health, one of the biggest healthcare systems in ...
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Solving the Mystery of IBS In fact, irritable bowel syndrome, or I.B.S., is a real problem causing real symptoms, no matter how hard its sufferers may wish it gone. But unlike an infection or tumor, I.B.S. is what medicine calls a functional disorder: a condition with no identifiable cause.
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'Going to Get Worse': Fauci Issues Urgent New Plea for People to Get Vaccines Such hot spots represent increasingly large swaths of the country, thanks in part to middling vaccination rates in southern states like Arkansas and Florida, but also to a national scourge of vaccine hesitancy. While Florida set ...
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NJ man dies following West Nile diagnosis, officials say A New Jersey man who died last month had tested positive for West Nile virus, health officials confirmed. The man, who was in his 60s, was from Camden and was first admitted to the hospital for symptoms on July 16. After treatment, he was discharged to a ...
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Arlington Is Seeing 'Substantial' Community Transmission of Virus, CDC Says As of Friday, the cumulative number of Covid-related hospitalizations in Arlington during the pandemic reached 873, up four in two weeks. No new deaths were reported during that time period. Even in the ...
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Scientists Predict Early Covid-19 Symptoms Using AI (And An App) Combining self-reported symptoms with Artificial Intelligence can predict the early symptoms of Covid-19, according to research led by scientists at Kings College London. Previous studies have predicted whether people will develop Covid using symptoms ...
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Hundreds gather at Freedom Park to protest Atrium, Novant Health's employee vaccine mandate The demonstrators marched from Freedom Park to Atrium Health and made it clear that they believe Atrium and Novant are wrong for mandating that staff get vaccinated. "I think it's wrong ...
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Troubling Rise Seen in Both COVID, RSV Cases Among Children By Robin Foster and Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Aug. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A rise in cases of a common childhood disease called respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is unfolding just as coronavirus infections are ...
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COVID is spreading quickly in these NJ counties, the CDC says. Everyone should wear masks indoors The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in every county in New Jersey except Warren, according to data posted Sunday night by the federal Centers for Disease Control. Driven by the delta variant, the number of New Jersey counties with "substantial" or "high" ...
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New Jersey Officials Report West Nile Virus Death In Camden County KEY POINTS · A man in his 60s from a New Jersey county died of West Nile Virus · West Nile Virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the continental U.S. · There's no vaccine or medication to treat West Nile Virus in people.
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Masks should be worn indoors in 20 of 21 NJ counties, newest CDC data shows The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that in any county with "high" or "substantial" rates of coronavirus transmission, people should wear masks in indoor public settings — even if they are vaccinated. Twenty counties are now in one of those two ...
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CDC investigating E. coli outbreak possibly tied to raw cake batter The Centers for Disease Control has launched an investigation after several people have fallen ill across multiple states with a strain of E. coli. According to the government agency, the outbreak is likely tied to the consumption of raw cake batter. Interviews ...
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Pizza and taxi rides used to lure UK youth into getting Covid-19 vaccination (CNN) There's dangling a carrot at the end of a stick. And then there's dangling a pizza. The United Kingdom is using take-out food discounts and free taxi rides as incentives for young people to get their Covid-19 vaccines, the country's Department of Health ...
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6 central Ohio counties jump to second-highest level on CDC COVID map: What it means for you Franklin, Delaware, Union, Marion, Pickaway, and Licking counties are now the color orange on the map, which equates to substantial community spread. In addition, Fairfield County moved up to high community spread, or the color red. According to the CDC, ...
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Alabama adds 666 new cases of COVID-19 as delta variant surges State officials reported 666 new cases of COVID-19 on July 31, according to a dashboard operated by the Alabama Department of Public Health. Those numbers are lower than the previous week, where cases averaged more than 2,000 a day. The case total ...
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'This is entirely avoidable.' Tri-Cities hospital getting pounded with COVID patients The low vaccination rate could make the Tri-Cities area less competitive in attracting health care employees to allow care to be kept local and Kadlec to serve as a regional hospital, Kaleel said. Kadlec has ...
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Hospitals Struggle With Influx Of Patients As Hawaii's COVID-19 Caseload Mounts Let's go! Hawaii health officials are urging people to get vaccinated as the number of coronavirus cases spikes due to the highly contagious delta variant. Cory Lum ...
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COVID-19 weekly update: cases rise further, vaccines follow and the county dashboard returns As positive weekly COVID-19 cases passed 1,000 for Alachua County and 100,000 for the state of Florida, vaccinations also picked up. The number of people inoculated in the county more than doubled over the past seven days, and the number of doses ...
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Coronavirus cases continue upswing in LA County amid concerns about Delta variant The resurgence of the coronavirus in Los Angeles County, fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, continued Sunday with 3,045 new cases and five more deaths tallied, according to county public health officials. Authorities cautioned, however, that the ...
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SF General Hospital and UCSF Staff COVID-19 Infections Raise Concern About Rate of Breakthrough Cases (At this point in the war against COVID-19, it's safe to say that an indoor mask mandate will be introduced in San Francisco sometime this week.) This strain's ability to spread through a population is a particular point of study/worry/interest in communities with ...
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Delta variant update: Lockdowns unlikely, but 'things are going to get worse,' Fauci says The nation's top infectious disease expert stressed that this is an "outbreak of the unvaccinated," and that this group is far more vulnerable to catching COVID-19 and its variants of concern than those who are vaccinated.
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Los Angeles County Reports 3045 New Cases Of Coronavirus The number of coronavirus patients in county hospitals continued to spike, rising from 1,071 Saturday to 1,096, according to state figures. · City News Service, News Partner · Posted Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 4:54 pm PT ...
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Fauci: More 'pain and suffering' ahead as COVID cases rise Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that more "pain and suffering" is on the horizon as COVID-19 cases climb again and officials plead with unvaccinated Americans to get their shots. Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, also said he doesn't foresee ...
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NJ man dies of West Nile Virus, officials say A Camden County man died of the West Nile virus in July, county officials said. The man, who was in his 60s and not identified, was admitted to a hospital with symptoms of the virus on July 16. He was discharged to a sub-acute care center, where he later ...
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Take This Refresher on Skin Safety in Summer Sun "Skin cancer is the most common cancer in humans so it's important that we do what we can to protect ourselves," Dr. Ida Orengo, a professor of dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said in a school news release.
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In Provincetown, COVID-19 hits 14 friends in a show of Delta variant's might Danny Barefoot and 23 friends traveled to Provincetown, Massachusetts, to dine, hit the beach and party, secure in the knowledge they were all fully vaccinated. Fourteen left as potential vectors. They tested positive for Covid-19 after a week-long ...
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How you should protect yourself with delta variant and 'breakthrough' infections rising LOS ANGELES — The delta variant of the coronavirus is turning out to be a more formidable foe than previously believed, largely thanks to its ability to infect — and be spread by — people who are fully vaccinated. A confidential document prepared by people ...
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Fauci Has a Warning on COVID-19 Surge: "Things Are Going to Get Worse" But he warned the outlook is still dire and there will be "some pain and suffering in the future" and the only way to prevent that is for more people to get vaccinated as quickly as possible.
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Fauci: More "pain and suffering" ahead as COVID cases rise Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that more "pain and suffering" is on the horizon as COVID-19 cases climb again and officials plead with unvaccinated Americans to get their shots. Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, also said he doesn't foresee ...
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NHS urged to redistribute near-expiry vaccines as take-up slows in young The NHS is facing pressure to redistribute tens of thousands of vaccine doses nearing expiry as demand from younger adults drops. An internal email seen by the Guardian warned of 170,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine at risk of expiry within the next ...
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Variant's threat poses dilemma for US parents Many parents who thought their children faced limited risks of getting the coronavirus are now reassessing their stance. Health experts said parents should be extra careful with the highly contagious variant, which is causing infection spikes in Los Angeles ...
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SD County reports 881 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths San Diegans have largely turned to traditional vaccination clinics to get immunized against COVID-19, county health officials said Friday. According to county data, retail pharmacies are now the primary provider of vaccines, administering more than 100,000 ...
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Summer Hill cluster hits 20, aged care vaccination rate remains low A COVID-19 cluster at an inner west aged care facility has grown to 20 cases, as it is revealed fewer than a third of aged care workers in the state are fully vaccinated. NSW reported 207 new local coronavirus cases on Monday, 102 of which had not yet been ...
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Fauci: More 'pain and suffering' ahead as COVID cases rise Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, also said he doesn't foresee additional lockdowns in the U.S. because he believes enough people are vaccinated to avoid a recurrence of last winter. However, he said not enough are inoculated to "crush the ...
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UK scientists believe it is 'almost certain' a coronavirus variant will emerge that beats current vaccines The analysis has not been peer-reviewed, the early research is theoretical, and does not provide any proof that such a variant is in circulation now. Documents like it are released "as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence ...
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Gottlieb says vaccines still effective at preventing serious illness Washington — Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, said COVID-19 vaccines still provide strong protection against serious disease and death, even as new research shows vaccinated individuals can spread the worrying Delta ...
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Long Covid: from fatigue to nerve pain and breathlessness - the coronavirus symptoms that can last for months People with ongoing symptoms of Covid-19 are showing signs of damage to multiple organs four months after infection. By Claire Schofield. Monday, 2nd August 2021, 3:19 pm. Almost one in seven people who test positive for Covid-19 still suffer symptoms ...
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'This is going to accelerate very rapidly' | Houston doctor urges vaccinations as Delta variant surges nationwide The CDC says about 35,000 people a week are contracting COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated. Experts say the vaccine remains the best and only tool to get this under control.
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State health officials "strongly encourage" everyone to wear masks INDIANA — State health leaders on Friday were "strongly encouraging" everyone over age 2 to mask up even if they're vaccinated. They are especially pushing this in places such as schools and long-term care facilities. Indiana State Health Department ...
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Rios Reviews Advances in NSCLC for World Lung Cancer Day In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Jorge A. Rios, MD, discusses recent advanced in NSCLC and the role targeted and immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy has played in this progress.
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UK scientists: 'Almost certain' a COVID variant will emerge that beats vaccines The scientists write that because eradication of the virus is "unlikely," they have "high confidence" that variants will continue to emerge. They say it is "almost certain" that there will be "a gradual or punctuated accumulation of antigenic variation that eventually ...
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Coronavirus infection is rife in a common US deer species The findings, revealed by an analysis of samples collected after the pandemic began, represent the first detection of widespread exposure to the virus in a population of wild animals, says Arinjay Banerjee, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in ...
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West Nile detected in Mount Vernon mosquitoes; first pool in Westchester with virus New York City has reported that West Nile, which can be transmitted to humans through the bite of a mosquito, has been detected this summer in all five boroughs. Rockland County reported West Nile-infected mosquito batches were found in Clarkstown and ...
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