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CDC urges kids ages 16-17 to get newly cleared boosters; your 3rd shot unlikely to be your last: Live COVID updates With the new omicron variant of the coronavirus spreading in the U.S., federal authorities are giving booster shots for 16- and 17-year-olds a strong endorsement. Hours after the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized the extra doses of ...
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California coronavirus cases rising, showing early signs of winter surge But there are already warning signs. Statewide, the daily average of newly reported infections has risen more than 30% since before Thanksgiving. The number of Californians hospitalized with COVID-19 also has climbed during ...
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People with health issues or inactivated vaccine should get COVID-19 booster - WHO GENEVA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Thursday that people who are immunocompromised or received an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine should receive a booster dose to protect against waning immunity.
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LA County may be at the start of a winter COVID-19 surge, health official says Weekly coronavirus case rates have climbed by 33% over the last two weeks, sending the nation's most populous county back into the worst coronavirus transmission tier, colored red on maps published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Pfizer Says Vaccine Booster Should Protect Against Omicron But there seemed to be a bright spot in the studies, too. The virus didn't completely escape the immunity from the vaccines, and giving a third, booster dose appeared to restore antibodies to a level that's been associated with protection against variants ...
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An Inside Look at a New York Lab Working With Omicron What's it like in a New York lab working with Omicron right now? MedPage Today spoke with Benjamin tenOever, PhD, a virologist at NYU Langone Health, for an inside look at sequencing efforts to track down Omicron. The conversation also touched on ...
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The Pandemic of the Vaccinated Is Here But preliminary data from South Africa and Europe now suggest that two vaccine doses alone might still allow for frequent breakthrough infections and rapid spread of the disease—even if hospitalization and death remain unlikely. Getting three shots ...
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More Time Outdoors May Lower Risk of MS in Youth By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Dec. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Children at risk for multiple sclerosis (MS) might find some protection from the disease by spending more time in the sun, a small study suggests.
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An mRNA Vaccine Against HIV Shows Promise in Animal Trials By Robert Preidt and Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cutting-edge mRNA technology brought safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines to a world in crisis -- could it do the same for a much older foe, ...
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Coronavirus Attacks Fat Tissue, Study Says They looked at different types of cells -- adipocytes, or fat cells, as well as pre-adipocytes that become fat cells and immune cells called adipose tissue macrophages. Slideshow. How ...
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Flu took a break in 2020, but it's officially back. Experts say it's not too late for Americans to get vaccinated. The U.S. may have dodged a 'twindemic' last year, but health experts say the country may not be so lucky this season. While the U.S. continues to report more than 800,000 coronavirus cases per week, flu cases and hospitalizations are also steadily ...
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Breathlessness With 'Long COVID' May Point to Heart Damage By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Shortness of breath in people with "long COVID" might not just be about the lungs — it may indicate heart damage from the disease, ...
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The Covid pandemic could end next year, experts say — here's what that looks like, and how the US could get there But that doesn't mean the coronavirus will disappear. In a blog post on Tuesday, Bill Gates laid out one seemingly likely scenario: "At some point next year, Covid-19 will become an endemic disease in most places.".
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CDC Director: US Has Seen Mild Cases of Omicron So Far According to Walensky, reported symptoms among the 40 people in the U.S. who have been infected with the new variant have mainly been a cough, congestion and fatigue. CDC officials have said that one person was hospitalized, but no deaths have been ...
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Vaccine makers race to update their COVID shots, just in case SARS-CoV-2 virus particles are seen under an electron microscope. The World Health Organization has appointed an independent scientific panel to advise on whether vaccines should be reformulated because of Omicron or any other variant.
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Fear Keeps Some Cancer Patients From Getting COVID Vaccine By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer patients are at risk for serious COVID-19 illness, but some are still afraid to get vaccinated against the virus, new research shows.
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First Michigan omicron COVID-19 variant case detected: What you need to know Michigan's first known case of the omicron coronavirus variant has been confirmed in a person from Kent County, state health officials announced Thursday, raising concerns about the possibility that this mutated strain of the virus could drive yet ...
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Moderna vaccine booster and omicron: What we know today about effectiveness The Moderna booster is here. The CDC recommends you get a booster shot. Algi Febri Sugita/Getty Images. For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Nearly 50 million people so far in the ...
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FDA expands Pfizer COVID booster, opens extra dose to age 16 On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization for 16- and 17-year-olds to get a third dose of the vaccine made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech -- if it's been six months since their last shot.
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A guide to Covid-19 testing for the vaccinated and the confused If you are concerned about an active coronavirus infection, it's key that you take a test that looks for the virus — for example, a rapid antigen test or a PCR test.
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How will the world decide when the COVID-19 pandemic is over? There's no clear-cut definition for when a pandemic starts and ends, and the threat posed by a global outbreak can vary from country to country. "It's somewhat a subjective judgment because it's not just ...
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Omicron Wave Heads for UK, but It's Not Clear How Bad It'll Be LONDON — With cases of the Omicron variant doubling every three days and the government doing an about-face on restrictions it had long resisted, Britain is bracing for a new coronavirus surge, unsure if it will be a relatively minor event or a return ...
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CDC recommends Pfizer booster shots for Americans as young as 16 "A single booster dose of the vaccine for those vaccinated at least six months prior will help provide continued protection against COVID-19 in this and older age groups," said Marks. Only around 2.6 ...
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CDC Director Rochelle Walensky: No concerns about myocarditis with nearly 5 million children vaccinated "We haven't seen anything yet," Walensky told ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton in a rare in-person interview from CDC headquarters in Atlanta. "We have an incredibly robust vaccine safety system, and so if [problems] were there, we ...
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5 things to know about omicron variant, booster shots "The messaging from the CDC has been kind of fragmented," largely because data is still being collected on waning vaccine immunity and on boosters, said University of South Florida virologist Dr. Michael Teng. He said the most recent guidelines make it ...
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First case of omicron variant identified in Michigan in Kent County The west Michigan patient tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 3, and genomic sequencing confirmed it was the omicron variant and was reported to the state on Thursday, according to a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services statement.
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Oregon reports 38 more COVID-19 related deaths, 901 new cases PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — There are 38 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state's death toll to 5,356, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday. OHA also reported 901 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. ...
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The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in North Texas Two cases of the omicron variant have been detected in North Texas by a Frisco lab, just days after Texas' first case of the new coronavirus strain was identified in the Houston area. The Texas Department of State Health Services, which investigates ...
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Cataract surgery linked to decreased dementia risk in older adults: study Cataract surgery was also associated with lower risk of Alzheimer's disease specifically. The results, reported Dec. 6 in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that this lowered risk persisted for at least a decade after undergoing surgery ...
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Long COVID Can Cause Heart Problems Along with Breathing Difficulties More than one-third of people with no history of heart or lung disease who were hospitalized with COVID-19 continued to have shortness of breath a year after being discharged from the hospital, researchers from Belgium reported.
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Counties With the Highest COVID-19 Vaccination Rates In the U.S., around 71% of people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the nonpartisan data center USAFacts and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meanwhile, 60% of the population has been fully vaccinated, as ...
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Blood pressure readings jumped for many during the pandemic Blood pressure measurements of nearly a half-million adults saw statistically significant increases in 2020, compared with 2019, according to a new research letter in the journal Circulation. A Northern Virginia doctor has advice for everyone to ...
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First local case of omicron variant detected in Yolo County The variant was found in a West Sacramento adult who had recently traveled within the U.S. and was vaccinated against COVID-19. The person, who was tested on Dec. 2, has been experiencing mild symptoms and is currently in isolation, said Yolo County ...
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Study: Flu Vaccine Rates Are Lowest for Individuals Without Regular Health Care Providers Investigators started the study to help identify predictors of flu vaccinations that will help pharmacists tailor efforts to increase vaccination rates. Anna Legreid Dopp, the ASHP's senior director of clinical guidelines and quality improvement, who was ...
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Exercise May Be a Buffer Against Pneumonia By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Dec. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Regular physical activity has all sorts of benefits, and now researchers say it may help ward off serious pneumonia. Until now, it wasn't clear how exercise ...
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Reduction in Risk of Distinct Recurrence by Adjuvant Therapies in HER2-Positive Early Stage Breast Cancer HER2-positivity is associated with more aggressive disease and an increased risk of recurrences. Currently, the standard of care is 1 year of trastuzumab with chemotherapy. Up to 24% of patients experience recurrence, according to data from long-term ...
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COVID-19 in Michigan is 'critical right now,' state health officials say Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel, MDHHS Chief Medical Executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, and two doctors from other Michigan hospitals spoke at the update. They detailed a dire situation ...
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Amid push for third doses of COVID vaccine, some Maryland residents never got their second At least 6.5% of the more than 4 million vaccinated Marylanders haven't returned for the second shot of the two-dose regimen on the recommended timeline, an analysis of state data by The Baltimore Sun shows.
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Yakima County records 600th COVID-19 death A grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic was reached Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, as Yakima Health District officials reported the county's 599th and 600th deaths from the disease. The two deaths bring the total number of Yakima County COVID-19 deaths to ...
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CDC signs off on Pfizer booster shots for older teens The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday signed off on booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for 16- and 17-year-olds for emergency use. The final OK, from CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, came hours after the Food ...
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6 ways you may be causing yourself brain damage – like spending Friday evenings alone One US study looking at the brains of healthy adults found those who reported feelings of loneliness had higher cortical amyloid levels — a marker used to help diagnose dementia and Alzheimer's. Participants with increased amyloid were seven ...
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Michigan's first confirmed Omicron case detected in Kent County Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said the person tested positive for the virus on Dec. 3 but it took the lab until Dec. 9 to confirm the new variant. Region 6 Medical Director Jerry ...
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Viagra playing new role in fight against Alzheimer's disease LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Sildenafil, better known as Viagra, used for more than two decades to treat male impotence, is now being celebrated for showing promise in the search to find ways to help prevent Alzheimer's disease. It follows the results of a study ...
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Bay Briefing: How omicron made its way to the East Bay There's a lot going on with COVID in the Bay Area. To rehash: Only 10 cases of the omicron variant have been confirmed in the state, including six from an East Bay outbreak. Delta is still the dominant strain.
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Calls Grow Worldwide for COVID Booster Shots The issue was discussed at an extraordinary meeting at World Health Organization in Geneva convened by SAGE, the 15-member Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on vaccination. Current data show that vaccines against COVID-19 ...
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White House: US COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Climbing Dec. 9, 2021 -- Americans are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at the highest rate since last spring, Jeff Zients, White House Covid-19 response coordinator, said at a Tuesday news briefing. In the last week, 12.5 million total COVID shots were ...
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MRNA Flu Vaccines Are in the Works, and They're Already in Clinical Trials Given how successful the mRNA Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines have been, several companies are looking into using the technology to make a newer type of flu vaccine. Advertisement - Continue Reading ...
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King County sharing details of its first Omicron case. Pierce, Thurston counties are not It added, "The patient has not reported any recent travel, suggesting the Omicron variant has been spreading locally." On Wednesday, representatives of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department and Thurston County's public ...
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What you need to know about COVID-19 in Ottawa on Thursday, Dec. 9 The health authority for the Outaouais has announced its first two confirmed cases of the omicron variant. Ottawa also announced its fifth case of the omicron variant, saying it is linked to travel like its others.
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LA County Moved Back Up To 'High' COVID Transmission Los Angeles County health officials are warning of the beginnings of a winter surge as new coronavirus cases totaled 1,715 on Thursday. Three weeks ago, before Thanksgiving, the county was reporting around 1,000 cases a day.
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