Month: September 2020

Press release from the Humboldt County Joint Information Center: A Humboldt County resident in their 80s has died at an out-of-county hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19. This marks the eighth death of a county resident related to the virus. Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich sent her condolences to the family. “Our thoughts are with friends and family members who are feeling this loss,” she said.    Seven new cases of COVID-19 were reported today, bringing to 508 the number of county residents who have tested positive for the virus. Today’s alert level stands at two or level yellow. Visit humboldtgov.org/dashboard to view the county’s Alert Level Assessment tool.  For the most recent COVID-19 information, visit cdc.gov or cdph.ca.gov. Local informa...

For seven years, Dr. Ethan Weiss, a cardiologist at The University of California, San Francisco, has experimented with intermittent fasting. The health fad, which restricts eating to specific periods of time, hit the mainstream after a series of promising studies in mice suggested that it might be an effective weight loss strategy in humans.  So Weiss decided to give it a try himself by restricting his own eating to eight hours per day. After seeing that he shed some pounds, many of his patients asked him whether it might work for them.  In 2018, he and a group of researchers kicked off a clinical trial to study it. The results, published on Monday, surprised him.  The study found "no evidence" that time-restricted eating works as a weight loss strategy.  People who wer...

Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. With 827 new coronavirus cases reported on Monday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise, passing 1,000 for the first time. For the past week, the Utah Department of Health has tallied 1,001 new positive test results per day on average — continuing a streak of new record highs that began earlier this month as cases surged among young adults. The virus continued to spread quickly in Utah County, which recorded 356 new cases Monday — the most of any county in the state. For the past seven days, Utah C...

The levels of the virus that causes COVID-19 has been declining in U.S. patients over time, which could account for the lower number of ICU admissions and overall death rate compared to when the virus first arrived, researchers claim. The study, conducted by Wayne State University researchers and presented at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, relied on nasal swabs taken from hospitalized patients in Detroit between April 4 and June 5. They then assessed all samples that had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during that time period and found a progressive decline in the number of samples that were categorized as having a high viral load. BLOOD TEST MAY REVEAL CORONAVIRUS SEVERITY, DEATH RISK: STUDY “By week five of the study, 70% of the positive sample...