Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky anticipates that all schools will be fully in person and no longer remote in September 2021. “We should anticipate, come September 2021, that schools should be full-fledged in person and all of our children back in the classroom,” the CDC director told ABC News Chief […]
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Alaska becomes 1st US state to open vaccines to nearly all
Alaska has become the first state to drop eligibility requirements for COVID-19 vaccines and allow anyone 16 or older who lives or works in the state to get a vaccine, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Tuesday. Dunleavy made the announcement after his own bout with COVID-19, which he described as an inconvenience and said underscored his […]
How reducing body temperature could help a tenth of all ICU patients
A tenth of all intensive care unit patients worldwide, and many critical patients with COVID-19, have acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Therapeutic hypothermia, an intentional cooling of the body, has been suggested as a way to improve ARDS. New research by Chiara Autilio and colleagues in the lab of Jesus Perez-Gil at the Complutense University […]
Calling All Vaccinators: Closing the Next Gap in Covid Supply and Demand
Beating back covid right now comes down to balancing supply and demand. With hopes pinned to vaccines, demand has far outstripped the supply of doses. But, as an increasing number of vaccine vials are shipped in coming weeks, the concern about shortages may well shift to human capital: the vaccinators themselves. “We need to mobilize […]
Merkel says ‘all vaccines welcome’ after strong Sputnik data
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday said all coronavirus vaccines “are welcome” in the EU once they have received regulatory approval, after Russia’s Sputnik V jab was found to be 91.6 percent effective in trial results. “Every vaccine is welcome in the European Union,” Merkel said in an interview with German broadcaster ARD, as the […]
Should we all be using ‘sniff tests’ to screen for COVID-19?
One of the best ways of containing the spread of COVID-19 is to rapidly identify people infected with the coronavirus and prevent them from passing it to others. Temperature checks are now being used as a public screening tool for identifying people with COVID-19, with countries such as Taiwan using temperature checks as a key […]
Rapid coronavirus spread in this city leaves contact tracers unable to track all cases
Fox News Flash top headlines for October 28 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Cases are of the novel coronavirus are climbing so fast in one city that officials can no longer trace all cases, according to a local report. Philadelphia last week reported an average of nearly 300 […]
Is my vulva normal? Not all genitalia look the same, and we’re trying to teach teenagers that
Cosmetic genital procedures are becoming increasingly popular in women. The most common is labiaplasty, which involves the surgical reduction of the inner lips of the vulva—the labia minora. Most women who undergo labiaplasty in Australia do so through the private sector, which does not require reporting of statistics. But in the United States procedure numbers […]
Lockdown stress not so bad after all, but vulnerable families hit harder
During the ‘intelligent lockdown’ in the Netherlands this spring, the respondents in a Leiden study reported a mild increase in their stress levels. This extra stress could have a negative effect on families, particularly if parents already had psychological problems before the corona crisis. Suddenly we were all at home. In March 2020 our homes […]
All members of military surgical teams can benefit from military-civilian partnerships
Military surgical teams face unique demands on and off the battlefield. Combat trauma represents 0.5 percent of the 1 million annual military health system hospital admissions, presenting a challenge for military surgical teams to remain combat ready. Previous research has established the many benefits of military-civilian partnerships for training military surgeons prior to deployment and […]