All posts by LadyLively

  • You Probably Won’t Get COVID From Handling Cash: Study

    Go ahead, put your credit card away: Handling cash and coins isn’t likely to give you COVID-19. European researchers treated various coins and paper money with different concentrations of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. A stainless...

    • Posted August 5, 2021
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  • WHO Slams COVID-19 Booster Shots in Wealthy Nations

    Wealthy nations shouldn’t be giving COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to their citizens while poor nations struggle to get first doses of vaccines, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. The U.N. health organization called for a moratorium...

    • Posted August 4, 2021
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  • Time to Rethink Suicide Warnings on Labels for Anti-Seizure Meds?

    Since 2008, anti-seizure drugs have carried a warning that they may increase users’ suicide risk. But a new analysis finds no evidence of such a risk with newer medications. Researchers found that five medications approved since 2008...

    • Posted August 4, 2021
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  • Wuhan Tests All Residents as Delta Variant Rages Where Pandemic Began

    All 11 million residents of the city of Wuhan will be tested for COVID-19 after three locally transmitted cases were reported in the city on Monday, Chinese officials said Tuesday. The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was first...

    • Posted August 4, 2021
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  • AHA News: She Couldn’t Put Up Her Arms on a Roller Coaster. A Stroke Followed.

    WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Like many roller coaster lovers, Brooke O’Connell and her son Declan always threw their hands up in the air during descents. “Mom, put your hands up!” he shouted...

    • Posted August 4, 2021
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  • Full Approval of Pfizer COVID Vaccine Could Come in September

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is speeding up its timetable for full approval of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, hoping to complete the process by early September. President Joe Biden said last week that he expected a...

    • Posted August 4, 2021
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  • Biden Offers COVID Vaccines to Migrants in Custody Along Mexican Border

    COVID-19 vaccines will be offered to migrants in U.S. custody at the Mexican border, federal government officials said Tuesday. The Department of Homeland Security will provide the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine to migrants soon after they...

    • Posted August 4, 2021
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  • Regeneron Drug Approved to Help Prevent Severe COVID in Vulnerable After Exposure

    A preventive monoclonal antibody injection for people at high risk for developing severe COVID-19 after exposure to the coronavirus has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The first dose of Regeneron’s cocktail must be...

    • Posted August 4, 2021
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  • Health Highlights: Aug. 4, 2021

    Here’s some of HealthDay’s top stories for Wednesday, Aug. 4: Full FDA approval for Pfizer vaccine could come by Labor Day. With the Delta variant raging and vaccine hesitancy still an issue, the FDA says it’s taking...

    • Posted August 4, 2021
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  • How the Delta Variant Is Changing the U.S. Forecast for COVID-19

    COVID-19 vaccines are helping protect the unvaccinated as the new Delta strain surges across the United States, but experts say its high infectiousness could mean even more people need to take the jab to achieve true herd...

    • Posted August 4, 2021
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