Month: January 2021

We all know that keeping our immune systems strong during the COVID-19 pandemic is of the utmost importance. And now that vaccines are, slowly but surely, rolling out, it should still remain a top priority, especially in regards to monitoring and even potentially reducing your alcohol intake if you've been drinking too much. Research has shown that binge drinking—defined by the CDC as 4+ drinks for women and 5+ drinks for men during one occasion—can negatively impact your immune system. For instance, a 2015 study published in the journal Alcohol found that a single bout of binge drinking increases inflammation in just a few hours and inhibits your body's ability to regulate its immune system and effectively fight off infectio...

STEVE: FIRST, TONIGHT, OPERATION WARP SPEED IS ENDING ITS SECOND WEEK IN IOWA WITH PHARMACY WORKERS VACCINATING PEOPLE IN THE STATE’S LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES. STACEY: BUT GOVERNOR REYNOLDS SAYS THE ROLLOUT IS NOT GOING AS EXPECTED. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHOWS WHAT IS BEING DONE, AND WHY LOCAL PHARMACY OWNERS SAY THEY COULD BE A SOLUTION. KAYLA: ON WITH LIFE IN ANKENY IS SET TO GET THEIR FIRST DOSE OF THE VACCINE ON MONDAY, TWO WEEKS AFTER THEIR GLENWOOD FACILITY RECEIVED ITS OWN. >> TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL - THIS VACCINE IS A GLIMMER OF HOPE. KAYLA: A GLIMMER OF HOPE IOWA LEADERS WANT OTHER LONG-TERM CARE CENTERS TO SEE. BUT INSTEAD, ON THURSDAY, GOVERNOR REYNOLDS TOLD REPORTERS SHE WAS DISAPPOINTED AT THE PACE OF THE ROLLOUT. GOV. REYNOLDS: ...

A 20-something who works on computers. A young researcher who studies cancer. Technicians in basic research labs. These are some of the thousands of people who have been immunized against the coronavirus at hospitals affiliated with Columbia University, New York University, Harvard and Vanderbilt, even as millions of frontline workers and older Americans are waiting their turns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued recommendations intended to ensure that the nation’s vaccines first reach those at highest risk: health care workers who interact with Covid-19 patients, and residents and staff members at nursing homes, followed by people age 75 and older and certain essential workers. Each state has established its own version of the guidelines, but with the rollout proc...

My name is Lynn S. Mizell (lynns.b_), and I'm 46 years old. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia, and I work as a startup program administrator. After gaining weight post-baby and then yo-yo dieting, I decided to commit to my health and lose weight with the keto diet and walking for weight loss. I first gained weight after the birth of my daughter in 2001. I wasn’t fully committed to losing the baby weight, plus I love good food. So I would lose 10 to 12 pounds, then gain it back by overeating. It was a vicious cycle that I was stuck in for years. In 2003, a coworker introduced me to the Atkins diet. I lost 40 pounds by following it and walking each day. But two years later I had surgery on my foot and was out of work for two months. Unfortunately, I reverted to my old eating habits and wa...

LONDON (AP) — The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths. The U.K. is the epicenter of Europe’s COVID-19 outbreak once more, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is facing questions, and anger, as people demand to know how the country has ended up here — again. Many countries are enduring new waves of the virus, but Britain’s is among the worst, and it comes after a horrendous 2020. More than 3 million people in the U.K. have tested positive for the coronavirus and 81,000 have died — 30,000 in just the last 30 days. The economy has shrunk by 8%, more than 800,000 jobs have been lost and hundreds of thousands more furloughed workers ar...

Diane Kearns sat at her old-school wooden desk, black hair pulled into a ponytail and face devoid of makeup, and prepared to go to war. The Austin, Texas, mother of three was fiercely focused on one thing: finding a COVID-19 vaccine for her 18-year-old son, Dean, whose disabilities include cerebral palsy, seizure disorder and legal blindness.  Kearns picked up her Android phone on Dec. 30 and started punching in numbers. Between pounding coffee and banana nut bread, she called 15 grocery stores that had received vaccines. She called Dean’s doctor. She called pharmacies. No. No. No. They were out of vaccine. They served only first responders. They took only current patients. They accepted only people on waiting lists. And still, she kept calling, anywhere she could think of, at one point s...

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