Month: November 2020

But by mid-August, the southwest hot spot made a remarkable reversal. Cases plummeted 75 percent. Arizona has maintained relatively low case numbers since, but they are now creeping to levels seen just a few weeks before its summer surge. And as a conflagration engulfs the Midwest and Mountain West, public health experts and elected officials in Arizona are pleading with residents to maintain mitigation measures they say played a critical role in beating back the virus and hold lessons for other states — including mask mandates that covered 85 percent of the population. “The mask ordinances should stay in place until we get pretty wide distribution of the vaccine,” said Will Humble, a former state health department director who now leads the Arizona Public Health Association. “The retu...

Photo: Jenny Kane (AP) A man’s rare intolerance to the cold almost killed him post-shower. In a recent case report, doctors describe how he developed a severe allergic reaction to the cold air he encountered after stepping out of a hot shower—serious enough to merit a trip to the emergency room and a stay in intensive care. According to the report, published last week in the Journal of Emergency Medicine, the 34-year-old man collapsed soon after taking a hot shower, due to a potentially fatal allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis. His family eventually found him on the floor and called for paramedics. Once there, they gave him oxygen and epinephrine (routinely used to treat the low blood pressure and constricted breathing caused by anaphylaxis), then took him to the emergency room....

>> YOU SHOULD NOT REALLY BE AFRAID TO GO OUT AND VOTE JUST BECAUSE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. CHRISTINE: IN AN INTERVIEW PROVIDED BY OU HEALTH, DR. DREVETS GOES OVER SAFETY MEASURES YOU SHOULD TAKE WHEN HEADING OUT TO THE POLLS. NUMBER ONE, >> WEAR A MASK AND TRY TO STAY SOCIALLY DISTANT IF YOU CAN. A MASK, A SURGICAL MASK SUCH AS WHAT I’M WEARING, IS GOING TO GIVE YOU HIGHER LEVEL OF PROTECTION THAN JUST SAY A BANDANA. CHRISTINE: ALSO, IF YOU CAN, >> >> YOU CAN TAKE SOME HAND SANITIZER WITH YOU AND HAVE GOOD HAND HYGIENE. CHRISTINE: AND IF YOU’RE NOT FEELING WELL, STAY HOME. >> THE TIME THAT YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO GO OUT IN PUBLIC IS IF YOU ARE SICK AND COUGHING. IN THAT SITUATION, YOU REALLY DO WANT TO STAY AT HOME. GET AN ABSENTEE BALLOT, VOTE AHE...

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Artist’s depiction of an ultrapotent COVID-19 vaccine candidate in which 60 pieces of a coronavirus protein (red) decorate nanoparticles (blue and white). The vaccine candidate was designed using methods developed at the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design. The molecular structure of the vaccine roughly mimics that of a virus, which may account for its enhanced ability to provoke an immune response. Credit: Ian Haydon/ UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design Preclinical data published in Cell show the nanoparticle vaccine spurs extremely high levels of protective antibodies in animal models. An innovative nanoparticle vaccine candidate for the pandemic coronavirus produces virus-neutralizing antibodies in mice at levels 10 times greater than is seen in people who have recove...