Month: November 2020

Contract Tracing South Korea  Bloomberg reports These Elite Contact Tracers Show the World How to Beat Covid-19 In May, when a coronavirus outbreak hit nightclubs in the South Korean capital of Seoul, health officials quickly unleashed their version of the Navy Seals -- elite teams of epidemiologists, database specialists and laboratory technicians. An old-school, shoe-leather investigation showed the virus had jumped from a night-club visitor, to a student, to a taxi driver and then alarmingly to a warehouse employee who worked with 4,000 others. Thousands of the employee’s co-workers, their family members and contacts were approached and 9,000 people were eventually tested. Two weeks later, the warehouse flareup was mostly extinguished and infections curtailed at 152. The work of such...

Hair loss can be attributed to a number of external and internal processes and teasing these apart can be tricky. It can be a response to stressful situations, for example, or genetics. In fact, genetics plays a more prominent role. It is behind the leading cause of hair loss in men - male pattern baldness. {%=o.title%} Researchers believe that male pattern baldness, also known as androgenetic alopeci, is the result of the sex hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT) damaging hair follicles. Testosterone is thought to facilitate this process, which eventually leads to baldness. Confronted with the power of genetics, hair loss of this nature can seem like an insoluble problem, but you can address it. Research suggests you do not have to under...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department (LLCHD) announced that 201 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Lancaster County on Saturday, bringing the community total to 10,746. The number of deaths in the community remains at 50. The 90 new cases reported yesterday were partial results. Today’s total includes cases reported by midnight last night. The total number of new cases reported for Friday and Saturday is 291. Visit COVID19.lincoln.ne.gov to access a dashboard that summarizes Lancaster County COVID-19 data. Symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, shortness of breath, repeated shaking with chills, repeated muscle pain, headache, sore throat, new loss of taste or smell. If you have symptoms, please get t...

The update brings the state’s totals to more than 116,000 confirmed cases and 2,4319 deaths. OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington set a new daily record for new coronavirus cases, with 1,777 new cases announced Saturday. That number tops the previous record of almost 1,500 new COVID cases reported in a single day, which was the most the state had reported in a single day since the start of the pandemic.  The state Department of Health (DOH) warned that COVID-19 cases are spreading in the Puget Sound region. The update brings the state’s totals to more than 116,000 confirmed cases and 2,4319 deaths.  ...