Month: April 2021

The next move in the Bay State’s three-phase vaccination rollout begins Monday, giving people aged 55 or older eligibility to slot their vaccine. People with at least one qualifying health condition that puts them at increased risk for the coronavirus will also become eligible.  The step forward for Massachusetts marks the fifth and final group in the state’s second phase of the rollout, and just two weeks later by April 19, all residents aged 16 or older are set to gain access to the vaccine.  Just over 20% of the state’s population, or more than 1.4 million Mass. residents, have been fully vaccinated as of Sunday evening. Residents can use the Commonwealth’s recently-launched preregistration system to receive a notification once they’re eligible for their first dose, then s...

The National Institutes of Health has “systematically thwarted” government oversight of dangerous pathogen research, Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard H. Ebright told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The P3CO Review Framework was created in 2017 after a three-year pause on government funding of research that intentionally makes pathogens more deadly or transmissible. An NIH grant that involved the modification of bat-based coronaviruses and the transfer of $600,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the pandemic bypassed P3CO review because the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, led by Anthony Fauci, didn’t flag the project for review. An oversight board created to scrutinize research that would enhance highly dangerous pathogens did ...

Eat This, Not That! 15 Supplements Every Man Needs, Say Doctors In an ideal world, you'd get all of your essential vitamins and minerals from the food you eat. But looking at the average American diet, one thing is clear: It's time to call for some backup. According to a meta-analysis of studies done by Oregon State University, 75 percent of us aren't eating the daily recommended amount of fruit, and 80 percent aren't eating enough vegetables. That means 94 percent of us don't meet the daily recommended intake of Vitamin D, half of us don't get enough magnesium (read on to find out why that mineral is crucial), and 44 percent aren't getting enough calcium.That can have serious health consequences down the road, as our bodies cope with aging. We asked experts what supplements can help fill...

SALT LAKE CITY — There were 344 new COVID-19 cases in Utah with no new deaths, according to an update provided by the Utah Department of Health Sunday. The rolling seven-day average number of positive cases per day is now about 400 cases per day, according to the health department. That's a decline of six from Saturday, according to updated data. Utah's rate has been above 400 new cases per day since Sept. 9, 2020. It reached as high as 3,392 new cases per day in November and 3,258 per day in early January. Meanwhile, the positive test rate per day for that time period reported with the "people over people" method is now 7%. The positive test rate per day seven-day average calculated with the "test over test" method is 3.4%. The health department reported Sunday that 14,350 more doses of ...