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Far fewer Californians getting COVID-19 booster shots than expected, bringing new alarms Pharmacist Ryan Le gives Jim Canales, 78, of Fullerton a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a McDonald's in September. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times).
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There's more demand for boosters than first shots of the COVID vaccine That trend represents a big success for White House's aggressive booster campaign. But it also underscores the administration's flagging effort to achieve its high priority of vaccinating the remaining unvaccinated Americans. More than 21 million people ...
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Trump's Surgeon General Supports Vaccinating Kids Nov. 4, 2021 -- Jerome Adams, MD, who was U.S. surgeon general under former President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that his 11-year-old daughter will get vaccinated against COVID-19. The benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks, he said, ...
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COVID-Vaccine Mandates for Kids Are Coming But how, exactly, does the case for mandating COVID vaccines in schools compare to the one for all the other shot requirements—such as those for polio, chickenpox, and measles—that are already in place throughout the country?
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How doctors are getting COVID shots to kids ages 5-11 Caitlin Givens pushed the wheelchair carrying her daughter, Penelope Porter, 6, into an exam room Wednesday morning at Children's National Research Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr. Nicola Brodie was waiting for them with an alcohol wipe and a COVID-19 ...
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HPV vaccine drastically reduces risk of cervical cancer, UK study finds More than a decade ago, Britain set out to vaccinate girls aged 12 and 13 against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer, among other ailments. Researchers have now observed that those shots led cases of cervical cancer to ...
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Should 11-Year-Olds Wait Until They Are 12 to Get a COVID-19 vaccine? Both the FDA and the CDC this week approved Pfizer's pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for 5 to 11 year olds. In the U.S., children ages 12 and older get the full regimen of COVID-19 vaccines — 2 full doses, like adults, whereas those younger get about a ...
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COVID Widespread Among Iowa Deer There's no evidence of deer-to-human infection, but the Penn State University authors and Iowa wildlife officials are warning deer hunters and others who have contact with deer to take precautions. The veterinary microbiologists ...
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Birthday parties and sleepovers are back as parents welcome COVID vaccine for kids Their daughter Harper is 5, and though Nichols and Hathaway are both vaccinated, they say they're still limited in what they feel safe doing as a family until everyone has had their shots. " ...
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Even if they get breakthrough infections, vaccinated people don't get as sick with Covid-19, studies show Researchers looking at men and women getting treatment at Veterans Health Administration facilities found that overall vaccine efficacy against all types of infection fell from 87.9% in February to 48.1% in October. They only counted fully vaccinated ...
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Mouse Study: 4 Approved Meds Are Potential Alzheimer's Treatments The main hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are the buildup and clumping of amyloid-beta protein in the form of plaques, and the formation of Tau neurofibrillary tangles. This process leads to nerve cell death in the hippocampus, an area of the brain ...
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After Clocks 'Fall Back' This Weekend, Watch Out for Seasonal Mood Changes By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Nov. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As clocks are turned back an hour this weekend and it gets dark earlier, many people will begin grappling with seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
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Hepatitis B Shots Advised for All US Adults Under 60 By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Nov. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- All U.S. adults younger than 60 should be vaccinated against hepatitis B, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended Wednesday.
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Colorado Doctor Weighs In On Child Vaccine Concerns DENVER (CBS4) – With full CDC and FDA approval, hospitals and doctors' offices are making appointments to give children ages 5 to 11 the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, but many parents still have lots of questions. CBSN Denver's Makenzie O'Keefe had a chance ...
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High-risk Covid gene more common in South Asians University of Oxford scientists have uncovered a gene that doubles the risk of lung failure and death from Covid. They say 60% of people from South Asian backgrounds and 15% of people of European ancestry carry the high-risk version of the gene.
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Oxford Scientists Find Gene That Doubles Risk of Dying From Covid-19 Scientists identified a specific gene that doubles the risk of respiratory failure from Covid-19 and may go some way to explaining why some ethnic groups are more susceptible to severe disease than others. Researchers from the University of Oxford ...
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COVID In Colorado: Demand High For Vaccines For Ages 5-11 JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– Demand is high for the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine for kids in many Colorado counties, showing that many parents across the state are eager to get their kids vaccinated. Jefferson County Public Health officials say in the ...
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Progress on Allergies Highlighted at ACAAI — Meeting kicks off Friday · Eggs introduced in infancy may reduce the risk of later egg allergy. · Four years ago, guidelines calling for infants to be exposed to peanut protein were introduced, meant to head off development of peanut allergy.
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Many Kids With Asthma Are Unprepared for Adult Asthma Care By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Nov. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Many young Americans with asthma aren't sufficiently prepared by their childhood care providers to transition to adult care, a small new study shows.
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First pill to treat Covid gets approval in UK The first pill designed to treat symptomatic Covid has been approved by the UK medicines regulator. The tablet - molnupiravir - will be given twice a day to vulnerable patients recently diagnosed with the disease. In clinical trials the pill, ...
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What we know about vaccine effectiveness Then researchers compare how the groups fare. In the case of a vaccine, they look at how well it prevents infection, and whether it protects against serious illness, hospitalization or death. Those clinical trial results are often referred to as efficacy ...
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AHA News: Two Heart Operations in Her First 8 Months of Life By American Heart Association News, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Nov. 4, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- When 4-year-old McCoy Tittsworth met his sister, Molly, hours after she was born, he held her swaddled body and kissed her ...
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Urine Test May Spot Aggressive Prostate Cancer By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Nov. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A urine test might one day be able to tell which prostate cancer patients need immediate treatment and which don't, British researchers report.
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UK authorizes Merck antiviral pill, 1st shown to treat COVID LONDON -- Britain granted conditional authorization on Thursday to the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19 so far. It also is the first country to OK the treatment from drugmaker Merck, although it wasn't immediately clear how quickly the ...
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Pediatric vaccine events announced for St. Louis area ST. LOUIS — Two days after the coronavirus vaccine was approved for children ages 5-11, a series of vaccination events have been announced by area schools and health officials. But many of ...
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Gene linked to doubling risk of COVID-19 death found by UK scientists Nov 5 (Reuters) - British scientists have identified a gene that doubles the risk of dying from COVID-19, providing new insights into why some people are more susceptible to the disease than others, while opening up possibilities for targeted medicine.
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Boise County man dies from rabies; Idaho's first death from virus in 43 years BOISE — An Idaho man who state health officials believe didn't know he was bitten or scratched by a bat in late August died as a result of rabies last month, officials said Thursday. It's the state's first human rabies death since 1978, according to ...
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Mask mandates in LA County are likely to continue until next year, Ferrer says There were only 12 new COVID-related deaths in Los Angeles County Thursday, according to Ferrer, lower than peak levels during surges. But cooler weather has arrived, she warned.
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New COVID-19 pill cut hospital, death risk by 90% WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer Inc. said Friday that its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% as the drugmaker joins the race to bring the first easy-to-use medication against the coronavirus to the ...
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Pennsylvania coronavirus update: 5162 additional cases break three weeks of declining rates The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 5,162 additional coronavirus cases on Thursday. The seven-day moving average of newly reported cases was 3,913 cases per day, up slightly from a week ago, and down 16.8% over the last 30 days.
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Maine reports 601 new cases of COVID-19 and 7 deaths Dr. Anthony Fauci said Maine's sustained high-infection rate is the result of multiple factors, even as the state's high vaccination rate continues to protect immunized residents from serious illness. By Joe LawlorStaff Writer.
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Lung cancer no longer death sentence thanks to new treatments, technologies TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Lung cancer is the nation's country's leading cause of cancer death. But it's only been in the past decade that health professionals even had guidelines to screen for it. At the same time, doctors say new treatments are game ...
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Memphis school-age children receive COVID-19 shots after nearly two pandemic years Connor, 5, sits on his dad Eric Sefton's lap while receiving his Pfizer COVID. Like many other parents, the ones who brought their young children to get COVID-19 vaccines ...
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Addenbrooke's Hospital closes beds to prevent Covid spread Some planned operations been cancelled and beds closed at a major hospital as it cares for 61 patients with Covid-19. Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge has closed about 100 of its 1,000 beds "to decrease the risk of infection" from the virus, ...
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Britain Becomes First Country to Approve Merck's COVID-19 Antiviral Treatment The authorization comes after the drug garnered positive results in its third phase of clinical trials, says Merck, which evaluated the pill in unvaccinated adults with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who had at least one risk factor associated with poor health ...
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Coronavirus in Oregon: 1211 new cases, 74 deaths The Oregon Health Authority on Thursday announced 74 COVID-19 deaths and 1,211 new cases. Thursday's high death toll comes as state officials disclose info about roughly 550 deaths from earlier this year that were not initially reported because of a ...
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What we know about vaccine effectiveness But slowing the video to parse the headlines reveals more complexity. Some are reporting on studies that looked only at infection rates; others, more serious outcomes, including hospitalization and death. Some are about vaccines not offered in the U.S..
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Answering your frequently asked questions from 3News' 'Facts Not Fear: Your Kids and COVID' town hall CLEVELAND — With federal agencies having given final authorization for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 this week, it was the perfect opportunity for us to assemble a panel of experts to answer your questions.
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Fargo area hospitals begin administering COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 5-11 Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed the Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, effectively making millions of children eligible for an inoculation, including more than 82,000 in North Dakota ...
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St. Paul Public Schools to open student vaccine clinics St. Paul Public Schools aims to get its youngest students vaccinated against COVID-19, and it is setting up clinics at two elementary sites to help make it happen. Citing barriers that faced some adults earlier this year, Superintendent Joe Gothard ...
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Younger Erie County children begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine Mardou Locke was so eager to have her 10-year-old son, Jade, receive the COVID-19 vaccine that they arrived Thursday at the UPMC Health Plan Operations Center 90 minutes before his scheduled appointment.
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Watch: Detroit unveils plans to vaccinate children ages 5-11, update eviction assistance program Detroit — Mayor Mike Duggan will join with Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of Detroit Public School Community District, to unveil plans Friday on providing Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to the city's children starting next week.
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Idaho man dies of rabies in 1st reported case since 1978, health department says The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, along with Central District Health, announced on Thursday that an unidentified man from Boise came into contact with a bat after it flew near him and got caught in his clothing. The man did not believe he ...
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Metro Detroit health departments begin COVID-19 vaccines for kids 5-11 The City of Detroit is ramping up efforts to get kids between the ages of 5 and 11 across the city vaccinated against COVID-19. Beginning Friday, parents will be able to make appointments for the vaccine for their kids. The appointments will begin on ...
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Finding a Support Group for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients These are the experiences and opinions of panelists, not physicians. Shirley A. Mertz, MA, JD: If I'm looking for ways to find a support group, Lisa, and even if you're repeating, should I first ask where I'm treated if they have a support group?
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Idaho adult dies from rabies infection "This tragic case highlights how important it is that Idahoans are aware of the risk of rabies exposure," said State Epidemiologist Dr. Christine Hahn. "Although deaths are rare, it is critical that people exposed to a bat receive appropriate treatment to ...
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Idaho man died from rabies infection after exposure to bat State and Central District Health officials say the man was exposed on his Boise County property in August, and was hospitalized in October. Author: KTVB Staff. Published: ...
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7-day takeaway: 2033 COVID-19 cases, 71 deaths reported in the past week The Clarion Ledger regularly publishes the number of Mississippi COVID-19 cases, deaths, vaccinations and other relevant pandemic health news in efforts to keep residents informed. Here are the findings from state officials from Oct. 29-Nov. 4.
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LIVE AT 10: Detroit officials outline plan to provide COVID-19 vaccines to kids At 10 a.m., Duggan will be joined by Detroit Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti and Chief Public Health Officer Denise Fair to outline measures to offer the child-size dose recently approved by the federal agencies. FOX 2 will stream the press ...
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CPS Cancels Nov. 12 Classes to Give Kids Chance to Get COVID Vaccine Classes for Chicago Public Schools students will be canceled Friday nov. 12 to allow families an opportunity to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19, now that the vaccine has been approved for kids ages 5 to 11.
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