Month: April 2021

Nearly six months after the first Covid-19 vaccines were approved for emergency use, Guardian analysis shows that the vast majority of the world is yet to see a substantial benefit. Supply shortages, safety concerns, public apathy and slow rollouts have resulted in most countries still being reliant on onerous lockdowns and other quarantine measures to reduce the severity of their outbreaks. Clear gaps have opened between the handful of countries where vaccination levels are high, those struggling to ramp up their programmes and the many, mostly poor countries that have received only a trickle of vaccine doses so far. Mapping changes in death rates since 31 January against vaccination rates in each country gives a snapshot of the state ...

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The change happened almost overnight. The ballroom at Meritage Resort and Spa, Napa County’s largest mass vaccination clinic, went from seeing a flood of residents clamoring for coronavirus vaccinations to just a trickle in the days following California’s expansion of vaccine eligibility to everyone 16 and older. On Friday, the first day the clinic opened to the public following the statewide expansion, virtually all of the 1,400 appointments got snapped up. But by Tuesday, just two-thirds of available appointments that day — about 2,300 of 3,400 — were booked. The schedule for the rest of the week suggests a steep drop-off in interest. Fewer than 1,500 people had booked appointments for Wednesday, by late afternoon Tuesday, out of nearly 3,700 ava...

In fact, women who slept poorly were nearly twice as likely to report issues such as lack of sexual interest or pleasure than women who got plenty of shut-eye, according to the study published Wednesday in Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society. In contrast, the study also found that good sleep quality was linked with having more sexual activity, a result that "doesn't surprise anyone, right?" said senior author Dr. Stephanie Faubion, who directs the Mayo Clinic's Center for Women's Health. "If you put a platter of sleep and a platter of sex in front of a tired woman, she's going to pick sleep every time," said Faubion, who is also the medical director for the North American Menopause Society. These results, she added, should be a wake-up call for physicians to be...