Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2019, statistics have determined that more than 198 million people have been infected with the virus, and nearly 4 million have lost their lives. Currently, there are over 15 million active cases, ...
To help increase the number of people getting their flu shots, the UK government will offer young people discounted meals and taxi rides. People will be offered a discount on food delivery and taxi-hailing from businesses such as Bolt, Deliveroo ...
With a bit of luck, soon there will be at least one antiviral pill that will reduce the impact for most sufferers of COVID-19. The pill might become available in Australia in the near future. A number of pharmaceutical companies ...
Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said that the coronavirus that has been troubling humanity over the past (nearly) two years is only “a few mutations potentially away” from evolving into a strain immune to the existing vaccines. The concept was ...
COVID-19 seems to have returned with improved forces. The new Delta variant is ravaging the US and many other parts of the world. Vaccinations are working for the most part, according to medical experts. Officials are frequently urging people to ...
Scientists managed to eradicate an area of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes by using genetic engineering to make the females infertile, in what the lead researcher referred to as the “game-changer in bringing about malaria elimination.” A team of researchers, under the leadership ...
The reported number of Delta COVID-19 cases is on the rise in San Antonio, as a 66% increase in hospitalizations was registered last week, city data suggests. The area also records breakthrough incidents, leading to a COVID-19 positive test result ...
The state is refusing to provide the city with 550 nurses to help take care of COVID-19 patients. The reason given was that it will have to use its own money (in other words, federal stimulus money) for paying for ...
As of 18 July, the public health officials in California changed their Covid-19 recommendations. The new guidance recommends wearing masks in public indoor places, even for those fully vaccinated. The same recommendation was made by the CDC a couple of ...
Government officials and policymakers attempted to rely on numbers to analyze the impact of COIVD-19 on the nation. Figures like the quantity of hospitalization or deaths are part of the burden of clearly identifying the outcome or status of the ...
Researchers recently discovered fossils of a giant vampire bat. The jawbone was found in a cave not far from the town of Miramar, in Buenos Aires, during an excavation of Pleistocene-era sediments. For researchers, the bat fossil record is valuable ...
A new study published in BMC Medicine has found that the risk of heart attack, stroke and death among those with heart disease is reduced if they consume moderate amounts of alcohol. The study analyzed more than 48,000 heart disease ...
In a report, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisationsaid in April that Pfizer was the preferred vaccine for under-50s and then in June they changed it so that it would apply only to those under 60 years old. In ...
California Will Require COVID Vaccination or Testing for All State Employees and Health Care Workers
The daily number of infections due to COVID is rising in the US. Officials such as Anthony Fauci strongly recommend vaccination. Sceptics are also there, plenty of them. Sceptics have their reasons to refuse to get vaccinated. We don’t judge ...
COVID-19 Deaths are constantly rising in the USA, particularly among unvaccinated individuals, while doctors have been struggling to convince citizens to get vaccinated. Brytney Cobia, a doctor from Alabama, made a touching Facebook post last week, promoting a possibly life-saving ...
Public figures who might have trouble answering questions about their COVID-19 vaccine status often deflect reporters’ questions by accusing them of violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. In the middle of 1990s, medical records became electronic and there ...
The pandemic doesn’t seem to end, and it probably won’t for a few more years. We had 2020 full of lockdowns, and then, as if the virus was not enough, new variants are on the go. One of the deadliest ...
It seems that we are not going to escape this pandemic anytime soon. Things get a bit more complicated than we’re used to. Officials now need to make a choice: should people with weakened immune systems receive an additional dose ...
Australia has had so far more than 32,588 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections, and 915 people lost their lives due to complications. Since the outbreak in Wuhan in 2019, the island country has tried hard to keep the coronavirus away, and ...
A recent experiment analyzing Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot vaccine found out that it produced a not-so-severe antibody response against the Delta variant compared to Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. However, experts believe that it will probably still do fine against the ...
The vaccination campaign in the U.S seems to be slowing down a bit and the statistics show that so far, only about 4 million children are vaccinated with at least one dose, according to sources. The FDA has authorized the vaccination ...
On Friday, San Francisco Bay Area officials made a public recommendation that everybody, including vaccinated individuals, must wear masks indoors. Numerous restaurants are currently requiring them again for workers. Reports show that at least one employer cut off unvaccinated workers ...
One year ago, numerous vaccines against the novel coronavirus were still under development, and nobody knew if either of them would actually work. Thankfully, a bunch of them did! Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna never registered the worst-case scenario of their ...
The Delta variant is a more infectious and potentially more dangerous strain of coronavirus, currently accounts for over half of the new Covid-19 infections in the US, according to data from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ...
With a total of over 62,000 infections and just 36 deaths caused by the COVID pandemic, according to data from worldometers.info, Singapore plans to stop reporting daily numbers of infections with the coronavirus. It seems like the officials from the ...