Health experts and epidemiologists have been working around the clock since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been a difficult task to monitor all SARS-CoV-2 variants and predict and create future scenarios. However, indicators that could help with ...
Students who want to take a mental health day will not be needed to present their school with a doctor’s note beginning January 1, as per a measure signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker. Moreover, students will be permitted ...
A potential Johnson & Johnson HIV vaccine finally had its trial. Unfortunately for researchers, the results were not as good as they expected. On Monday, Johnson & Johnson said it would halt its clinical trial of the experimental HIV vaccine ...
The number of solid organ transplants dropped considerably across the globe over the past two years, researchers discovered. One of the main culprits to that is the impact of the pandemic on health services and patients. As the pandemic emerged, ...
The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel is concerned about the Biden administration’s strategy for introducing the booster shots for the Covid-19 vaccine. They argued that the decision to re-start immunization came too quickly and could fuel public concerns that vaccines are ...
A new English study reveals that the new Delta COVID-19 variant is more dangerous as it can double the number of hospitalizations compared to the alpha variant. The delta variant is more severe, as well as more infectious. The finding, ...
An American COVID-19 patient has temporarily lost his vision in one of his eyes, leading researchers to study a possible link between impeded vision and COVID-19. The report was created by a team of doctors from the Columbia University Vagelos ...
The respiratory virus that can provoke intense illness in toddlers and adults older than 65 is spreading at an alarming pace in the Midwest and South. It’s the second time this summer when cases of RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) are ...
The COVID-19 pandemic was an event none of us could have anticipated. However, it appears that the statistical possibility of another pandemic occurring is not as low as we would have imagined. Researchers have put together a new statistical study, ...
An important milestone has been reached by COVID-19 vaccine. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has become the first Coronavirus vaccine to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The vaccine was approved for those who are 16 years old and older. ...
Just at the end of last month, New York City officials announced that municipal public workers would have to get vaccinated or face weekly testing for the Covid-19 virus. The list of public workers included teachers and police officers. New York ...
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 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 ...
The cold season is slowly approaching, and beyond the never-ending threat of the pandemic, people will also have to deal with seasonal issues such as the cold. Those who want to be protected against both have to wonder whether it ...
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% ...
What does it get to in a superhero shape? What does a superhero eat? Well, for those questions, Chris Hemsworth may have the best answers. The star’s diet and workout routine to get in shape for his role are quite ...
The new highly infectious Delta variant of COVID is making more and more child victims and the number of children hospitalized in Texas Children’s campuses is now higher than ever. What is worst, most children also suffer from RSV (Respiratory ...
Who was the very first COVID patient? Who was the so unlucky fellow who caught the coronavirus and started to spread it? Researchers had always been asking themselves these questions. The first COVID outbreak started in Wuhan, a city of ...
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 ...