Amid China’s worst COVID-19 outbreak since the early days of the pandemic, officials have locked down several cities, ordering residents to stay in their homes until they can be tested or vaccinated, according to news reports. After subduing the initial…
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Ranking Cities For Singles From Worst To Best
If you’re single and ready to mingle, certain cities are friendlier to singles than others. WalletHub ranked 182 U.S. cities from “best to worst” by taking in a number of factors including percentage of singles, singles gender balance, online dating…
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How These Cities Turned Their Area Codes Into Actual Holidays
If you’re not from the city of Milwaukee or its surrounding suburbs, then you might think that April 14 is a date with no special significance. If your area code starts with 414, though, you know it’s time to show…
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Smart vaccine scheme quick to curb rabies threat in African cities
More people could be protected from life-threatening rabies thanks to an agile approach to dog vaccination using smart phone technology to spot areas of low vaccination coverage in real time. Vets used a smart phone app to help them halve…
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The Best (and Worst) U.S. Cities for Healthy Lungs
EVERYONE’S BEEN paying much more attention (cough cough COVID-19) to what they’re inhaling these days. And it made us wonder: As a country, what are we inhaling these days? Our research team went deep into the data on 100 major…
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More French cities placed on maximum coronavirus alert
Four French cities were on Thursday placed on maximum coronavirus alert, joining Paris and other metropoles where bars have been shuttered in an increasingly urgent bid to brake a fast-accelerating outbreak. The number of daily coronavirus infections came in at…
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Heat has stronger effect on health in less developed cities, study finds
Compared to high income cities, less developed cities in Brazil have a higher hospitalization rate associated with increased heat exposure, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Yuming Guo of the Monash University, Australia, and…
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England’s big northern cities braced for more lockdown curbs
The British government is mulling fresh restrictions on everyday life in England, potentially in the big northern cities such as Liverpool and Manchester, amid mounting fears that hospitals in coronavirus hot spots may soon be overwhelmed by growing numbers of…
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