Month: November 2020

Insurance stops paying for nurse’s rehab after near-fatal COVID infection – WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland
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Insurance stops paying for nurse’s rehab after near-fatal COVID infection – WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland

by: Katherine Hessel and Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Nov 17, 2020 / 10:25 PM EST / Updated: Nov 17, 2020 / 10:25 PM EST ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – A nurse on the front lines helping others with COVID contracted the virus himself. Now, after months of fighting for his life, he is finally recovering – but his insurance says they are no longer willing to cover the expense. Ohio Gov. DeWine announces curfew to curb coronavirus Lakeitha and Gerald Adory are both retirement home nurses and loving parents to a 5-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter. The family was healthy until early September, when all of them contracted COVID-19. Lakeitha’s mother, who lives with them, was the first to show symptoms and was hospitalized a few days l...
Harvey Weinstein is sick and being closely monitored in prison – The Guardian
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Harvey Weinstein is sick and being closely monitored in prison – The Guardian

Harvey Weinstein is unwell and is being “closely monitored” in prison, a representative for the disgraced Hollywood mogul said. Sign up for the Guardian’s First Thing newsletter The spokesman said they could not “confirm nor deny” the 68-year-old had tested positive for Covid-19 inside Wende Correctional Facility in New York. Weinstein, who is serving a 23-year sentence for rape, has a fever, his representative confirmed to the PA news agency. The once all-powerful film producer is considered vulnerable to coronavirus due to his age, weight and other medical issues, including a heart condition and high blood pressure. A spokesman for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said they could not comment on individual cases but anyone displaying Covi...
Early trial results show Sinovac vaccine triggers immune response – Aljazeera.com
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Early trial results show Sinovac vaccine triggers immune response – Aljazeera.com

Sinovac Biotech’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac triggered a quick immune response but the level of antibodies produced was lower than in people who had recovered from the disease, early trial results showed on Wednesday. While the early to mid-stage trials were not designed to assess the efficacy of CoronaVac, researchers said it could provide sufficient protection, based on their experience with other vaccines and data from preclinical studies with macaques. The study follows encouraging announcements this month from US drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna, as well as Russia’s Sputnik V, that their experimental vaccines were more than 90 percent effective based on interim data from large, late-stage trials. CoronaVac and four other experimental vaccines developed in China are cu...
Listerine says it is not clinically proven to fight COVID-19 – Fox Business
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Listerine says it is not clinically proven to fight COVID-19 – Fox Business

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CEO Richard Besser weighs in on the logistics of vaccine distribution. Listerine has debunked a new study that suggests mouthwash can kill off coronavirus within 30 seconds. Stocks in this ArticleFindings from the Cardiff University study, which has yet to be peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal, claim that mouthwashes containing at least 0.07% of cetypryidinium chloride (CPC) show promising capabilities of combating the virus. Scientists leading the study mimicked the conditions of a person’s nasal and oral passages and used brands like Listerine and Dentyl. MODERNA CEO CHEERS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE SAFETY AS 'GAMECHANGER,' WITH 20M DOSES AVAILABLE BY END OF YEAR However, Johnson & Johnson, Listerine’s manufacturer and distributor, sai...