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Anger simmers over Omicron travel bans in southern Africa (CNN) African leaders are hitting back against travel bans imposed over the Omicron variant, accusing wealthy countries of being hypocrites for delivering new restrictions instead of the vaccine doses the continent desperately needs.
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Prior Infection Is Little Defense Against Virus Variant, Scientists Say A past coronavirus infection appears to give little immunity to the new Omicron variant rippling across the globe, South African scientists warned on Thursday, potentially tearing away one layer of defense that humanity has won slowly and at immense ...
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The Variant Hunters: Inside South Africa's Effort to Stanch Dangerous Mutations NTUZUMA, South Africa — A few months ago, Sizakele Mathe, a community health worker in this sprawling hillside township on the edge of the city of Durban, was notified by a clinic that a neighbor had stopped picking up her medication.
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Covid: Doctors' leaders back postponed health checks Doctors' leaders have welcomed plans to allow GPs in England to defer some services to deliver Covid booster jabs instead. Practices can postpone minor surgery and routine health checks for over-75s and new patients until 31 March.
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COVID Quickly, Episode 20: The Omicron Scare, and Anti-COVID Pills Are Coming Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update on the COVID pandemic. We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the ...
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Omicron possibly more infectious because it shares genetic code with common cold coronavirus, study says The omicron variant is likely to have picked up genetic material from another virus that causes the common cold in humans, according to a new preliminary study, prompting one of its authors to suggest omicron could have greater transmissibility but ...
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Omicron Mutations Signal Vaccine Evasion, But Similar Symptoms As fears of another global surge of Covid-19 cases send jitters through global markets, spur a new round of travel bans and cause Americans to rethink their holiday plans, scientists studying the omicron variant are getting the first hints of what's in ...
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In First Head-to-Head Comparison, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Only Slightly More Effective Than Pfizer The first head-to-head comparison of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is revealed. While Moderna has a slight edge over Pfizer, both vaccines prove to be extremely effective, especially in the prevention of severe disease, hospitalization, and death.
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Covid-19: Mums who were severely ill urge pregnant women to get jabs Three mothers who suffered birthing complications due to Covid feature in a video by the UK Health Security Agency. One mother, Tanviha, said: "My family were told it was unlikely ...
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Omicron-stricken South Africa may be glimpse into the future JOHANNESBURG -- Dr. Sikhulile Moyo was analyzing COVID-19 samples in his lab in Botswana last week when he noticed they looked startlingly different from others. Within days, the world was ablaze with the news ...
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Slow on the uptake: About 13% of Arizona kids have been vaccinated in 1st month of eligibility Nearly a month after kids ages 5 to 11 became eligible for a low-dose Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, uptake among Arizona children in that age group remains relatively low. As of Wednesday, 83,166 kids aged 5 to 11 in Arizona had received their first Pfizer ...
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Potential New Therapeutic Option May Combat Drug Resistance in HER2+ Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer In addition to its in-vivo efficacy, investigators reported that TFOs targeting HER2 yielded copy number–dependent DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) and were successful in activating p53-independent apoptosis in HER2 cancer cell and human xenograft models.
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Get That COVID Booster Sooner Rather Than Later, Experts Say Between the emergence of the Omicron variant and an impending winter COVID surge, people may be wondering when they should get their COVID-19 booster shot. And public health experts agree: now is the time. The increase in antibody levels from a ...
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Coronavirus in Oregon: Cases climb as state reports 1352 new infections, 16 deaths The drop in cases over Thanksgiving week reflected a decline in testing and reporting, Oregon Health Authority epidemiologist Dr. Dean Sidelinger said in a statement. "If there ...
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Decades-Old AIDS Ministry in Georgia Is Changing Its Mission By SUSAN MCCORD, The Augusta Chronicle. AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — One of the area's oldest organizations dedicated to serving people with HIV is changing its mission, 40 years since the first U.S. case. St. Stephen's Ministry of Augusta was founded more than ...
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ODFW ramps up chronic wasting disease monitoring after detection in 2 Idaho deer SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has been on the lookout for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) since the late 1990s. Over the past 20+ years, staff have collected and tested more than 23,000 samples from hunter-harvested, ...
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Study: Black, Asian Britons have higher COVID-19 death rates LONDON — Almost two years into the pandemic, Black people and members of other racial and ethnic minorities in Britain are still dying with the coronavirus at higher rates than white residents, likely because of lower vaccination rates, ...
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Michigan hospitals near breaking point with COVID-19, other patients Leaders from three western Michigan hospital systems and two in metro Detroit said Friday that the majority of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated, as are the sickest, who need intensive care and ventilators.
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Gene Test Spots Breast Cancer Patients Who Can Skip Post-Op Chemo "For decades, women with breast cancer that had spread to the axillary [armpit] lymph nodes were treated with chemotherapy after surgery, to reduce the risk of recurrence," explained Dr. Francisco Esteva, chief of breast medical oncology at Lenox Hill ...
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Test developed at Duke can quickly tell who's got antibodies to fight which coronavirus variant The test, dubbed the COVID-19 Variant Spike-ACE2-Competitive Antibody Neutralization assay, or CoVariant-SCAN, could potentially tell doctors how protected a patient is from variants circulating in a community as well as new ones. It also could indicate ...
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Omicron COVID-19 variant discovered in Utah, health officials confirm Dr. Andrew Pavia, a University of Utah Health pediatric infectious diseases doctor, warned Friday that if the latest COVID-19 variant wasn't already circulating in Utah, it would be only a matter of days before it arrived.
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Should I still get a booster shot even though we don't know much about omicron? The refrain of "get your shots" has picked up again. Even before news of confirmed cases of omicron in the U.S. broke, federal public health officials and President Joe Biden implored people to get coronavirus vaccines and booster shots to protect ...
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The post-Thanksgiving Covid surge has taken off in Onondaga County Syracuse, N.Y. -- The number of newly confirmed Covid-19 cases in Onondaga County has soared over the past few days, a week after families and friends gathered for Thanksgiving dinner. County Executive Ryan McMahon said the county reported 404 new ...
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Pace of new COVID infections continues post-Thanksgiving rise Maine health officials reported 795 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, continuing a post-Thanksgiving rise in the pace of infections. Two additional deaths were reported as well, including an individual in their ...
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Omicron-stricken South Africa may be glimpse into the future JOHANNESBURG — Dr. Sikhulile Moyo was analyzing COVID-19 samples in his lab in Botswana last week when he noticed they looked startlingly different from others. Within days, the world was ablaze with the news that the coronavirus had a new variant of ...
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Coronavirus FAQ: Help me with omicron vocab. What's immune evasion? Epistasis? When I'm reading about the new omicron variant, I feel like I need a medical degree. What does "immune evasion" mean, exactly? Virus neutralization assay?! Help! We get it ...
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Breast Cancer: Test Reveals Who Can Skip Chemo After Surgery "For decades, women with breast cancer that had spread to the axillary [armpit] lymph nodes were treated with chemotherapy after surgery, to reduce the risk of recurrence," explained Dr. Francisco Estreva, chief of breast medical oncology at Lenox Hill ...
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Study: Black, Asian Britons have higher COVID-19 death rates LONDON -- Almost two years into the pandemic, Black people and members of other racial and ethnic minorities in Britain are still dying with the coronavirus at higher rates than white residents, likely because of lower vaccination rates, ...
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Georgia woman tests positive for omicron variant ATLANTA — Health officials say a woman from Georgia has tested positive for the omicron variant. The Georgia Department of Public Health said she is currently in isolation after traveling to New Jersey. DPH said the person "recently traveled from South ...
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Most coronavirus vaccines work as boosters, with higher antibody levels from Pfizer and Moderna, study finds Almost all the vaccines in the study bolstered those responses regardless of the initial doses, it said. One exception was the combination of a booster dose of Valneva in people who had first received Pfizer-BioNTech shots, which did not meet benchmarks ...
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Missouri Reports 1st Presumed Case of Omicron Virus Variant ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri health officials on Friday reported the state's first presumed case of the omicron coronavirus variant in a St. Louis resident. The St. Louis Health Department is ...
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Health Department urges getting a flu shot The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department (LLCHD) reminds the public that flu season is here, and flu vaccine is the most effective way to reduce the risk of contracting influenza. Health officials note that being vaccinated against the flu can ...
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NY lets schools 'test-to-stay' so more kids exposed to Covid can remain in classrooms Under previous state guidelines, children exposed to the virus must be kept out of school and quarantined. Some parents and education advocates say this approach results in many kids ...
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Australia and Omicron: how and when will the Covid pandemic actually end? It was meant to be Australia's summer of hope. With vaccination rates against Covid-19 high, international travel restarting, and most states opening domestic borders in time for Christmas, it was time for life to return to relative normality – our new ...
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Old Bridge and Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey team up to combat opioid crisis OLD BRIDGE - Mayor Owen Henry and the Old Bridge Municipal Alliance, government, police and school officials have teamed up with local businesses and the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) to tackle the opioid crisis through education and ...
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Almost 13 Million Americans Per Year Skip Meds Due to Cost More than 3% of Medicare beneficiaries and nearly 7% of beneficiaries with unmet medication needs spent more than 10% of their family income on prescription drugs. About 1 in 10 adults who were uninsured all ...
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COVID-19: MLHU reports 38 cases, SWPH reports its 100th death of the pandemic Jump to: Hospitalizations – Outbreaks – Schools – Vaccinations and testing – Ontario – Elgin and Oxford – Huron and Perth – Sarnia and Lambton. The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) reported 38 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, though the total case ...
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Omicron confirmed in Utah; doctor says state still reeling from delta The COVID-19 omicron variant has arrived in Utah. The Utah Department of Health announced Friday that the state confirmed its first case of the wide-spreading mutation, detected in an resident who had recently returned from a trip to South Africa.
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Omicron variant: Pfizer running 'neutralization tests' with its COVID-19 vaccine NEW YORK - The emergence of the omicron variant has renewed fears of the novel coronavirus developing mutations that would allow it to evade existing vaccines, but the companies Pfizer and BioNTech are currently running tests in response to the rapidly ...
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1st confirmed omicron case in Pennsylvania is reported The Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced the case in a news release. No other details were immediately available, including whether the man was vaccinated against COVID-19 or if he had been traveling. Health officials said contact tracing was ...
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Study suggests past COVID-19 infection may not fend off omicron THE HAGUE, Netherlands — South African scientists are warning reinfections among people who've already battled COVID-19 appear to be more likely with the new omicron variant than with earlier coronavirus mutants. A research group has been tracking ...
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UF Health researcher finds new pattern of mutations in omicron variant GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A University of Florida Health researcher has successfully analyzed the many mutations in the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a crucial step in better understanding the variant's potential threat and ways to combat it.
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Omicron variant will overwhelm the world in 3-6 months, expert says The omicron variant of the novel coronavirus will overwhelm the world in the next three to six months, according to a COVID-19 expert. Dr. Leong Hoe Nam, a Singapore-based infectious disease doctor at the Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, ...
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People should be more careful during the holidays as omicron variant spreads, Duke experts say Little is known about how dangerous the omicron variant is and what kind of illness it can cause, but researchers do know that it is spreading more rapidly than other variants. Dr. David Montefiori, professor ...
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Covid: GPs can defer some services in booster jab push GPs in England can defer some of the services they provide to patients to allow them to deliver Covid booster jabs instead, NHS chiefs have said. Practices can postpone minor surgery and routine health checks for over-75s and new patients until 31 ...
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ASU researchers may have found cause of blood clots after AstraZeneca COVID vaccine SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Scientists from Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale may have found the cause of blood clots in people who received the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca. According to the study, the problem may stem from ...
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Dobbs: 'A challenging season' ahead as COVID-19 cases rise and flu kicks up in Mississippi A challenging season lies ahead for Mississippians as COVID-19 case counts climb again, a new coronavirus variant looms and flu infections are ticking up. At the same time, hospitals statewide remain understaffed, health officials said Friday.
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Last year, Coloradans turned out in record numbers to get their flu shot. This year, not so much "We are behind where we were last year," said Heather Roth, immunization branch chief at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Colorado saw 1.8 million people get the flu vaccine at this ...
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COVID-19 Outbreak at Marin School Caused by Family Breaching Health Order: County Officials with the Larkspur-Corte Madera School District told NBC Bay Area that on Nov. 9, the parents of two Neil Cummins Elementary School students got a notice that one of their children had COVID-19.
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Scientists think they've discovered why the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can cause rare blood clots The AstraZeneca vaccine, like other viral vector vaccines, uses a safe virus as a "host" to deliver genetic information about the COVID-19 spike protein to the vaccine recipient's cells so that they can build an immune response and create antibodies.
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