Month: September 2020

Labor Day is typically summer's final hurrah. That one last chance to get together with friends and family for a cookout or a trip to the beach or the river. It could be the difference between life and death this year, warned governors from across the U.S. as the nation's coronavirus death toll approached 190,000, some 60,000 more than any other country. “We’re facing the challenge of our lifetimes and we must do better,” Kentucky's Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said Sunday while announcing that The Bluegrass State had set a record for the second straight week for most positive cases with 4,742, up from 4,503 the previous week. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, expressed similar worry as The Peach State surpassed 6,000 deaths: “This #LaborDayWeekend, I am urging all Georgians to wear ...

Fashion influencer Danielle Bernstein received backlash when she vacationed in the Hamptons in July.  Bernstein, who owns the clothing company WeWoreWhat, lives in New York City, but spent the summer at the holiday destination in Long Island. On Sunday, Bernstein told her 2.5 million Instagram followers that she and her boyfriend had both tested positive for COVID-19. "Woke up without my sense of taste and smell," she said. "My body is extremely sore, particularly my hips and legs ... trying to stay hydrated and just take Tylenol." She said luckily the people she had been in contact over the last few days had all tested negative and her partner was asymptomatic. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Fashion influencer Danielle Bernstein told her 2.5 millio...

In combination with a calorie-controlled diet, the probiotic strain Bifidobacterium breve may help children and adolescents with obesity lose weight, according to a small study to be presented Monday at e-ECE 2020, the 22nd European Congress of Endocrinology. Our gut microbiota are a dynamic population of more than 100 trillion microorganisms within our gastrointestinal tract, and they're responsible for maintaining immune function, normal metabolism and protection against pathogens. Diet has been considered a key driver of gut microbiota, and imbalances in the microbiota have been linked with diseases and infections. Similar to or the same as the microorganisms naturally present within our bodies, some bacteria of these probiotics can help aid digestion, vitamin production and de...

As the United States braces itself for a likely "second wave" of COVID-19 this fall, many experts are anticipating a spike in cases -- but some say that may not translate into an equally dramatic spike in deaths. A lot has changed since the pandemic first hit the U.S. earlier this year, when the nation's hospitals were overwhelmed with patients suffering a new, mysterious illness. Fast forward to September, and the pandemic is still surging out of control in many parts of the country, but relatively speaking, fewer patients are dying from the virus. Now, experts are pointing to several factors to explain why COVID-19 has become, in effect, a slightly less deadly illness: still far deadlier than the flu, but not as lethal as it was in those early days. MORE: A 'second wave' of coronavirus ...