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Jan 04 2022
News
U.S. Covid-19 Infections Top One Million After Holiday Backlog
More than one million new Covid-19 infections were reported in the U.S. as global health officials scrambled to increase measures to counter the fast-spreading Omicron variant.
The U.S. reported a record 1.08 million Covid-19 infections on Monday as most states worked to clear backlogs after pausing during the New Year’s holiday. The reports pushed the seven-day average of daily
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 21 2021
News
FDA adviser who stepped down over Alzheimer's drug approval says there's no "good evidence that it works"
A member of the FDA advisory committee who stepped down after the regulating body's approval of Aduhelm, a controversial new Alzheimer's drug, claims the treatment "showed no good evidence that it worked."
Harvard professor of medicine Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, who also works at Brigham and Women's Hospital, called it the "worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. history" in his
CBS News (Online)Jan 05 2021
News
Pandemic haunts new year as virus growth outpaces vaccines
Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the coronavirus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain to Japan to California, filling hospitals and threatening livelihoods anew as governments lock down businesses and race to find solutions.
England headed back into lockdown. Mexico City’s hospitals hold more virus patients than ever. Germany reported one
Associated PressJan 23 2022
News
Fauci says Omicron wave appears to be heading in the ‘right direction’ in US
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday said the latest wave of Omicron-driven COVID-19 cases appear to be trending in the “right direction” in the US — as he predicted that most states will hit their peak of infections by mid-February.
“Things are looking good. We don’t want to get overconfident, but they look like they’re going in the right direction right now,” Fauci told anchor Martha Raddatz
New York Post (News)Dec 08 2021
News
Lockdown drills can harm students' mental health. Here's what one expert advises
Community members and national onlookers are still reeling from last week's deadly shooting at a high school in Oxford, Mich., for which one student and his parents are facing charges.
Video footage posted to social media showed students rushing out of first-floor windows rather than opening the classroom door to a person claiming to be a police detective, while other classrooms
NPR (Online News)Nov 09 2021
Opinion
Why are rich countries still monopolizing Covid-19 vaccines?
About half of the world’s population has received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. The more than 7 billion shots administered so far are a massive, record-breaking public health achievement.
But more than 50 countries have vaccinated less than 25 percent of their populations. Vaccines aren’t distributed equally: Rich countries have about twice the population of low-income
VoxAug 24 2020
News
Scientists doubt convalescent plasma touted by Trump is a ‘breakthrough’ coronavirus treatment
Scientists and public health officials said Monday they are skeptical convalescent plasma is an effective treatment for patients hospitalized with Covid-19, even after the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the treatment and President Donald Trump touted it as a “breakthrough.”
There are no formally approved drugs or vaccines for the coronavirus.
CNBCAug 21 2021
Analysis
Fentanyl Is Creeping Into the Mainstream Drug Supply
None of the nine wealthy 20-somethings who were rushed to Manhattan emergency rooms by ambulance one night in November 2019 meant to use opioids. They all thought they were using cocaine, until seven of them passed out within minutes of the first bump.
All of them needed hits of naloxone, the overdose reversal drug, on the way to the hospital. Two were so far gone that they needed three
ViceMay 19 2020
News
Missouri Woman Dies, Goes to Heaven, and Comes Back with Mission to 'Bring Home as Many as We Can'
Charlotte Holmes is on a mission to tell everyone she knows about what she experienced the day she died and went to Heaven.
It was an experience that changed her life forever.
Last September, she was admitted to Cox South Hospital in Springfield, Missouri after going in for a routine checkup with her cardiologist.
While in the hospital, Charlotte suffered a stroke and
CBNJun 28 2021
News
Three in 10 Americans Think Pandemic Is Over in U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Although a record-high 89% of Americans now say the coronavirus situation is improving, most are not yet ready to declare the pandemic over in the U.S. More than twice as many think the pandemic is not yet over (71%) than think it is over (29%). Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say the pandemic is over, but significant differences also exist by gender, age
Gallup