Covid News: New York Cases Continue to Drop The New York Times
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At one of the hospitals where I work, in rural New Mexico, the COVID-19 patients are often young. Many are extremely sick, and most are unvaccinated. Not long ago, I walked into a room to find a woman in her mid-thirties. (Patient details have been changed to protect privacy.) She was unvaccinated, and had tested positive the week before. Her oxygen saturation was just fifty per cent, and her chest X-ray looked terrible. She seemed resigned and scared. When I asked her why she hadn’t got the vaccine, she shrugged. Down the hall, I visited a man in his early…
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In the coming weeks, scientists will have many more answers regarding omicron, the new COVID-19 variant that has quickly engulfed South Africa and spread across the globe, including the United States. Is omicron more transmissible than delta? Does it cause more severe disease? Is it more resistant to vaccines or anti-viral treatments? Does it cause symptoms doctors haven’t seen before? Are certain people more vulnerable? No matter the answers to those questions, there is little appetite in either red or blue states for reimposing lockdowns or mask mandates. That reluctance reflects a recognition of the public’s exhaustion after 21 months,…
December 13, 2021—Ana Langer is professor of the practice of public health and coordinator of the Women and Health Initiative at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Q: Roe v. Wade may soon be overturned by the Supreme Court, while at the same time other countries are loosening restrictions around abortion rights. What are your thoughts on the current climate around this issue? A: The trend over the past several decades is clear: Safe and legal abortion has become more widely accessible to women globally, with nearly 50 countries including Mexico, Argentina, New Zealand, Thailand, and Ireland liberalizing their…
As exemplified by the many roles of migrants considered ‘essential’ during the COVID-19 pandemic, the report highlights an increase in demand for their labour. Foreign doctors account for 33 per cent of the United Kingdom’s physicians, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and there is an overall reliance on foreign healthcare workers in Europe and the United States. Surge in overseas workers There are nearly 170 million foreign workers globally, according to the latest IMO estimates – more than triple the 53 million registered in 2010. And foreign-born workers play a growing role in the labour…
MOSCOW, Idaho — Dec. 16, 2021 — Rates of water loss experienced by migrants attempting to cross the desert from Mexico into the U.S. are sufficient to cause severe dehydration and to explain patterns of migrant mortality, according to a University of Idaho study. The extreme weather of desert environments can impose significant challenges to human survival, and migrants who attempt to enter the U.S. through the Sonoran Desert likely experience severe dehydration and associated conditions such as disorientation and organ failure that can lead to death, according to the study published in the journal Science. Scientists from the University of…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The links between diet-related diseases and COVID-19 are now widely accepted based on scientific evidence. In this regard, obesity has been identified by the CDC as a strong risk factor for severe COVID-19 illness. Still scientists trying to understand why COVID19 had mild symptoms in some and much more severe symptoms in others. Vaccination against COVID19 is essential. The vaccines are proven to be safe and effective and should be promoted as the first line of defense. However, attention to the preventative effect of diet-related mitigations is largely missing. As a mitigating factor, diet impact on…
TAMPA — Spanish speakers seeking straight answers about the COVID-19 vaccine are turning by the thousands to a series of online discussions hosted by the University of South Florida.Since January, the month after the start of the vaccine’s nationwide rollout, Salud Latina USF (Latin Health) has been working to deliver reliable information and remove barriers to vaccination among the region’s Hispanic community. This includes live, interactive webinars with public health experts on the last Thursday of each month.So far, the live sessions have been seen by 4,310 people, and another 2,000 have watched them on YouTube, said Dr. Miguel Reina…
COVID-19 is, once again, a dominating topic of conversation as the country enters yet another surge in cases with the omicron variant expected to have massive spread in coming months. And at the same time as cases surge shoreside, the numbers of coronavirus cases reported on cruise ships are starting to stack up again.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been working with global public health experts and industry partners to learn about omicron, spokesperson Dave Daigle told USA TODAY Thursday. “We are still learning how easily it spreads, the severity of illness it causes, and how well available vaccines and medications work against…