Our ancestors began refining metals roughly five millennia ago. However, our ancestors have physically interacted with particles of lead byproducts by inhaling, ingesting, or absorbing them. A recent study of ancient human remains buried at a site in Rome used ...
The United Kingdom now offers antibody tests to its population in an attempt to discover just how protected against the virus are those who have recovered from Coronavirus. According to the plan, thousands of people will receive tests on a ...
The new school year has a rough beginning as many parents and health experts debate the best way to return to school safely. The well-being of children is the most important aspect, but given the new infectious variants of COVID-19 ...
The Danish Health Authority has announced today that those with a weak immune system who have been already fully vaccinated can receive the third jab. The European country is not the first one to recommend so. Israel has already started ...
A new study focused on the two most administered Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca. Scientists analyzed how these two vaccines protect the immune system against several SARS-CoV-2 strains, including the dominant one in the U.S. The British Study used more than three ...
The pandemic has had many twists and turns ever since it took over the world 18 months ago. Recently, the newest worry for many people is the breakthrough infection, a newly coined term that refers to the Coronavirus infections that ...
The world is facing a new Covid-19 wave after the Delta variant has spread in many countries. The Variant originated in India became dominant in the U.S, and the Catholic Church decided to become involved in the vaccination process to ...
The Delta variant has spread fear worldwide due to its high transmissibility rate and the different symptoms it can trigger. A recent report from Pfizer revealed that the vaccine is only 83.7 % effective after four to six months of ...
Connecticut has a total of over 363,000 infections and more than 8,300 deaths caused by COVID-19 since the very first outbreak of the virus, according to worldometers.info. The American state is far behind much harder-hit states such as California, Texas, ...
COVID-19 has managed to put our lives on hold. 2020 has been a year of change, and we’re still adjusting in 2021. With the new variant in the world, people get more and more scared, and the vaccine seems to ...
Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has expressed his belief that the current pandemic will turn in the near future into an endemic. Based on their definitions, a pandemic is a disease that spreads ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new official recommendation for people who have a weakened immune system: the third dose of an mRNA vaccine is advised. Based on the official data, around 7 million Americans (2.7% ...
Given the widespread effects of the pandemic, the COVID vaccines had to be quickly developed, and not enough data was available for pregnant women to make an informed decision. Now more data is available, and it strongly suggests that taking ...
As the Delta variant spreads worldwide, several countries have started to administer the third jab to those age 60 or older. Israel has already administered more than 420,000 booster shots to seniors as the country has experienced a surge in ...
The Haneda Airport in Tokyo has a woman test positive for COVID just 3 days before the start of the Olympics. What is more, there were reasons to believe she was in fact infected with the Lambda COVID variant which ...
Until now, the PfizerBioNTech vaccine, along with Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have received emergency use authorization. This FDA approval requires only three months of trials and two months of data. Because the vaccines do not have full approval yet, ...
To help prevent the virus from spreading further and to save lives, the United States is launched multiple campaigns to encourage states, cities, and local health departments to ramp up their efforts to vaccinate everyone who needs to be vaccinated ...
Good news and bad news. Good news: Research shows that COVID-19 vaccines may protect the lungs of patients. Bad news: the number of U.S teens and young adults suffering from depression and suicide risks have increased during the pandemic. The ...
Running a usual COVID-19 test usually takes several hours. In a world where time is, in most situations, a luxury we can’t afford, faster solutions are always welcomed. Officials from many countries believe that rapid COVID-19 testing is practically mandatory ...
A recent report of the Commonwealth Fund provided a shocking assessment regarding America’s health care system. In contrast to comparably wealthy countries, the U.S. is last when it comes to health care, registering the highest infant and maternal mortality rates. ...
An expert suggests that tens of thousands of vaccinated individuals may get infected with COVID-19, but most of them won’t be considerably impacted by the virus. The intensity of the illness (which differs from the number of individuals who contract ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the number of death rates due to coronavirus infection have surged by 80% in Africa, with a 6,343 weekly rate. During a media briefing, WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhamon Ghebreyesus declared that the Delta ...
The U.S is still struggling to keep Covid-19 outbreaks under control, despite having 70% of the adult population (12 or more) vaccinated with one of the available vaccines: Moderna, PfizerBioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson. According to CDC data, recent outbreaks ...
Even though widespread use of these vaccines has resulted in a reduced number of infections and deaths in many countries, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants that have mutated in their viral spike proteins lead to many reasons of worry regarding ...
The vaccination campaign against the SARS-CoV-2 virus began in the U.S in December 2020, when nurse Sandra Lindsay received the first dose of the PfizerBioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Sandra Lindsay received her first shot in New York, a city that was ...