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(HealthDay)—Yet another study confirms what doctors have long known: Being obese greatly raises the odds that if you contract COVID-19, your case could be a severe one. The study, from researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, supports calls for obese Americans to move to the head of the line for protective […]
Heart disease was the No. 1 killer in the United States in 2020, with COVID-19 close behind it. Although our efforts have been focused on reducing the spread of the virus, millions of Americans are simultaneously dealing with heart disease. And having heart disease actually increases your risk for COVID-19. A recent study by Kim […]
(Reuters) – A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of COVID-19 is planning to scrap an interim report on its recent mission to China amid mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington over the investigation and an appeal from one international group of scientists for a new probe (https://on.wsj.com/3bdg11w), the Wall Street Journal reported on […]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – COVID-19 vaccines are making their way into the arms of U.S. meat and agriculture workers, but companies and union officials say progress needs to be faster after coronavirus outbreaks idled slaughterhouses and sickened thousands of workers. Vaccinating food workers could help prevent further production disruptions that sent meat prices soaring in spring […]
PARIS (Reuters) – France has used only a quarter of its AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses, a health ministry official indicated on Tuesday, saying its utilisation rate stood at 24% as of Feb. 28, well below a target set at 80%-85%. This compares with 82% for vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and 37% for those made by […]
The United States spends more on health care than any other nation. What many people don’t realize is that a large portion of this spending goes to waste. Every year, an estimated US$760 billion to $935 billion is wasted through overtreatment, poor coordination and other failures, amounting to about a quarter of total U.S. health […]
To Brandon Mulvany, the past 11 months have felt more like five or ten years. And though it’s not over yet, he’s finally feeling a sense of relief he hasn’t felt since the summer. Mulvany is an intensive care unit nurse at Mount Carmel Grove City Hospital, where he worked through the winter coronavirus surge […]
Respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19) can often catalyze an overactive immune response that leads to a life-threatening cycle, known as a cytokine storm. Analyzing cytokine responses from patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 and similar common respiratory viruses has unearthed glaringly important differences in how SARS-CoV-2 affects cytokines compared to other common respiratory viruses. The […]
While the understanding scientists currently have about the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is that children are more often to experience less severe illness, there’s new information on the other pediatric illness caused by the virus, Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome or (MIS-C), as well as what more acute cases of COVID-19 illness might look like in […]
Until a vaccine is readily available, a high-efficiency furnace filter used along with other precautions could help protect people from COVID-19 while they spend time together indoors. Dr. Yue-Wern Huang, director of S&T’s Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and a professor of biological sciences, is studying bioaerosols—the particles people release when they speak, sing or cough. […]