[ad_1] CHICAGO (WLS) – Illinois health officials reported 2,825 new cases of COVID-19 and 102 deaths on Thursday. The total number of cases in Illinois now stands at 1,155,833, with a total of 19,841 deaths, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past 24 hours, labs reported 96,525 samples for a total of … Read more
[ad_1] Preliminary results come from the RECOVERY trial, which has been testing potential Covid-19 treatments since March 2020. Tocilizumab was added to the trial in April 2020. The results were shared in a pre-print, but did not not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal. For the trial, 2,022 patients were randomized … Read more
[ad_1] * Joint statement from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board Chair Toni Preckwinkle… Our goal is to get as many people vaccinated as quickly and efficiently as possible. Having said that, our biggest challenge in doing this is the very limited supply of vaccine we receive. As we progress each day with … Read more
[ad_1] A strain of coronavirus first detected in Los Angeles, California appears to be spreading in the United States, although scientists are still studying the degree of transmissibility and virulence of the variant. A team of researchers from Cedars-Sinai say the variant, called CAL.20C, was first discovered in July before starting to circulate rapidly in … Read more
[ad_1] Almost a third of American adults say they are unlikely to receive a coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available to them, a new poll suggests. Conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, the report found that 67% of Americans plan to get vaccinated or have already done so. However, 15% are … Read more
[ad_1] MISSOULA – The Missoula City Health Department (MCCHD) will be holding a public vaccination clinic on Thursday at Lucky’s former market location in Southgate Shopping Center. According to the MCCHD, around 200 appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine for the first dose will be available. Appointments will open online at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday. The link … Read more
[ad_1] First-year students may be able to get their COVID-19 vaccine by September, White House chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci predicted in an interview published by ProPublica on Thursday. Fauci quoted clinical tests currently underway in the United States by vaccine developers Pfizer and Moderna to test the safety and efficacy of doses in … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists studying Covid-19 ‘super-spreaders’ – the ones that transmit SARS-CoV-2 at a rate about four times the average – have discovered additional features that provide patients with this grim. “ superpower ”. Researchers at Tulane University, Harvard, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital have identified a perfect storm of obesity, age and more severe Covid-19 … Read more
[ad_1] Not only are hospitals in Bay Area Kaiser keeping COVID-19 and virus-free patients in the same nursing units, but we are now learning that nurses must also commute between infected and uninfected people – and patients don’t. are not informed. “I had two patients who were HIV positive and two who were not,” Walnut … Read more
[ad_1] Are you looking for a diet that is more beneficial for losing weight and keeps your cholesterol under control? Try a vegan diet! A vegan diet is more effective for weight loss than a Mediterranean diet, according to a new study. The results of the study were published in the “Journal of the American … Read more