The crush of patients with coronavirus is so severe in Los Angeles that on Tuesday they exceeded the normal capacity at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, which serves many Blacks and Latinos in America’s largest county. The hospital in…
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COVID-19 unmasked: Math model suggests optimal treatment strategies
Getting control of COVID-19 will take more than widespread vaccination; it will also require better understanding of why the disease causes no apparent symptoms in some people but leads to rapid multi-organ failure and death in others, as well as…
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FDA to weigh half-dosing Moderna COVID-19 vaccines: Operation Warp Speed official
Fox News Flash top headlines for January 4 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is discussing a move to administer Moderna coronavirus vaccines in half-doses to distribute the…
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COVID-19 toll linked to Belgian party for elderly hits 27
The death toll of a virus outbreak in a care home linked to a Saint Nicolas party for the elderly last month has reached 27. The Mol care center in northern Belgium had organized a Dec. 4 visit of beloved…
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Brain damage of patients with Covid-19
In an in-depth study of how COVID-19 affects a patient’s brain, National Institutes of Health researchers consistently spotted hallmarks of damage caused by thinning and leaky brain blood vessels in tissue samples from patients who died shortly after contracting the…
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China’s Sinopharm says vaccine ‘79% effective’ against Covid-19
Phase 3 trials of a Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine found it was 79 percent effective, the Chinese pharma giant said Wednesday, lower than rival jabs developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna but a potential breakthrough in the battle to stem the pandemic…
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8 Health Care Workers Shared Photos While Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine—And Their Reactions Are Everything
As the first COVID-19 vaccines have been administered across the country, health care workers have rolled up their sleeves—and promptly snapped a selfie. Who can blame them? It's a momentous occasion—the biggest vaccine rollout in history, with a goal of…
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How to outsmart your COVID-19 fears and boost your mood in 2021
After a year of toxic stress ignited by so much fear and uncertainty, now is a good time to reset, pay attention to your mental health and develop some healthy ways to manage the pressures going forward. Brain science has…
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Covid-19 next year: Will either of the new Covid strains become Covid-20?
Coronavirus variant: Expert outlines details of new strain The Covid-19 pandemic is now near-certain to bleed into 2021, as cases around the world continue to rise. Matt Hancock, the UK’s health secretary, recently declared the local epidemic was “out of…
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96-year-old is first Spaniard vaccinated for COVID-19
A 96-year-old living in a care home in central Spain became the first person in the country to be vaccinated against COVID-19 on Sunday, in an event broadcast by national television. She felt “nothing” from the shot, Araceli Rosario Hidalgo…
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