Month: April 2021

SALT LAKE CITY — The COVID-19 vaccination rates in Utah look different based on the county. And this week, more high schools around the Wasatch Front are offering clinics for ages 16 and up to get a COVID-19 vaccine. It adds to the numbers of Utah's biggest still unvaccinated age group. The majority of Utahns over age 70 are fully vaccinated, but they've been eligible longer. Utahns ages 16 to 49 have been eligible for the last month. Almost 880,000 Utahns are fully vaccinated. That's 37% of the eligible population 16 and up. Photo: Utah Health DepartmentBut it varies by the local health department. In some areas of Utah, counties report percentages of people fully vaccinated in the low to mid-20s, out of their total populations. The Tri-County Health Department (covering Uintah, Duches...

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“I can confirm that both parents had been tested and both had tested negative,” said Brooks Baehr, a spokesman for the Hawaii Department of Health. “Which indicates that this child was not infected by COVID from the parents. While the parents appear to have taken the steps to insulate the child from COVID by, you know, getting vaccinated and they were tested before they came, this child still somehow was infected with the virus and eventually succumbed to it.

Florida Non-biting male mosquito larvae part of controversial program to curb spread of diseases such as dengue, Zika and yellow fever Wed 28 Apr 2021 03.00 EDT The Florida Keys will this week see the release of genetically-modified, non-biting male mosquito larvae as part of a controversial program designed to curb the spread of insect-borne diseases such as dengue, Zika, yellow fever and other human diseases.The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District and British firm biotech Oxitec announced last week that 12,000 of the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito species are expected to emerge each week for three weeks from six locations: two on Cudjoe Key, one on Ramrod Key and three on Vaca Key.US researchers seek citizen scientists as billions of Brood X cicadas set to emergeEventually it is ...

A nurse Cindy Mendez wearing a protective mask holds a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at NYC Health + Hospitals Harlem Hospital in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, February 25, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Reuters LONDON — A single dose of a coronavirus vaccine can reduce transmission within a household by up to half, a study by Public Health England has found. People who do become infected with the coronavirus three weeks after receiving a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca-University of Oxford vaccine were between 38% and 49% less likely to pass the virus on to their household contacts than those who were unvaccinated, the PHE study found. Protection ...