Health

COVID vs COVID vaccine: which is more risky?

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[ad_1] Unvaccinated Americans widely believe the COVID-19 vaccine is riskier than the novel coronavirus itself, according to a new Yahoo News / YouGov poll. The discovery comes as the United States has reached a plateau for COVID-19 vaccinations, even as the more transmissible delta variant of the virus continues to circulate across the country. According … Read more

In a Cape Cod retirement home, 33 people have tested positive for COVID-19

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[ad_1] Coronavirus “We are delighted to see that our vaccination efforts have clearly been effective, as affected residents and staff currently have no symptoms or very limited symptoms.” Maplewood at Mayflower Place, an assisted living facility, along Buck Island Road in West Yarmouth. (Steve Heaslip / Cape Cod Times) Officials are concerned about a recent … Read more

80 residents of Mass. fully vaccinated die from COVID-19 as groundbreaking cases surpass 5,000 – Boston News, Weather, Sports

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[ad_1] BOSTON (WHDH) – Eighty fully vaccinated Massachusetts residents have died from COVID-19 and the number of groundbreaking cases reported statewide has exceeded 5,000, according to new public health data. As of July 17, 716 more fully vaccinated residents have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the number of groundbreaking cases statewide to 5,166, according to … Read more

CDC Advisory Committee to Meet on Rare Syndrome Cases in Vaccinated Americans

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[ad_1] A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee is due to meet on Thursday to review data regarding cases of the rare syndrome in people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a panel of medical and public health experts who make recommendations on vaccinations, will hear … Read more

Colleges and students brace for deadlock this fall

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[ad_1] Hundreds of colleges have said the Covid vaccine will be mandatory for fall 2021, and just weeks before classes start, not all students are on board. Some take their cases to court, others file a petition. And yet, no college has reversed its policy. Earlier this week, a federal judge upheld Indiana University’s Covid … Read more

America’s most obese states

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[ad_1] The obesity epidemic in the United States is a major health problem, and it is getting worse. Almost half of adults in the United States are expected to be obese, not just overweight, by 2030, according to estimates by Harvard researchers published in December 2019 in the New England Journal of Medicine. While the … Read more

Dear Doctor: What’s the crackle in my ear?

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[ad_1] DEAR DR. ROACH: About two or three months ago, I had a cracking sound in my right ear, and it hurts intermittently. This happens several times a day, day and night. I saw my doctor who told me it was nothing. He told me to take Sudafed twice every 24 hours. It lets go … Read more

Doctor warns Americans against travel to Florida

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[ad_1] As the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State Department have urged Americans to avoid traveling to the UK. But that doesn’t go far enough, Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, co-founder and medical director of GoodStock Consulting, told Yahoo Finance Live. In fact, Americans should … Read more

Pfizer will look to a factory in Africa to help supply the continent with vaccines next year.

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[ad_1] Pfizer and BioNTech said on Wednesday they had reached an agreement with a South African vaccine maker, starting next year, to manage the final stages of manufacturing the doses of their Covid shot which will be supplied exclusively to African countries. The deal marks the first time Pfizer’s Covid vaccine will be partially produced … Read more