Month: July 2021

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“The pandemic has led to increased substance use across the board, as people have sought to manage stress, isolation, boredom, anxiety, depression, unemployment, relationship and child care issues, and housing instability,” Kimberly Sue, medical director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition, an advocacy group that tries to prevent overdose deaths, said in an email.

As Covid numbers rise and the more contagious delta variant spreads throughout the United States, people want to know what they can do stay safe. With talk of some vaccines being less effective against infection with delta, and news of third booster mRNA shot being tested and in some countries selectively administered, some people are even wondering if they should try and hack more protection — by independently seeking out a third shot or by mixing and matching vaccines. But Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the World Health Organization's chief scientist, cautioned people who are "voluntarily thinking about [getting] an additional dose," during a press briefing Monday. Without more data on the safety and efficacy, taking additional doses beyond the two-dose regimen or mixing and matc...

It's a warning from the highest-ranking public health doctors in Ohio. They're saying the COVID-19 delta variant is very much here, and it's only going to get worse — soon to become the dominant strain in the state. Ohio Department of Health Chief Medical Officer Bruce Vanderhoff said after months of dropping virus numbers, the state is suddenly seeing an uptick in cases. The delta variant is largely to blame, Vanderhoff said.The variant, named after the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, has the attention of the medical community as it continues. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the variant has caused about half of the recent cases in the United States.Research is showing the variant to be more contagious and to make people sicker than the original COVI...

Mississippi’s top health official said Tuesday the state has seven children in the intensive care unit due to COVID-19, including two who are on life support. Dr. Thomas Dobbs had said a day earlier that nearly all COVID-19 cases in the state are due to the Delta variant, with the majority of infections, hospitalizations and deaths among unvaccinated residents.  Dobbs noted that 7% of COVID-19-related deaths that occurred between June 7 and July 5 were among vaccinated individuals, which he called "worrisome." "We are allowing too much circulating Delta to reach our most vulnerable," Hobbs tweeted.  NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY LAUNCHES ‘DOSES TO DOORS’ VACCINE CAMPAIGN Last week, Dobbs said the state has seen "pretty much an entire takeover" by the Delta variant in virus circulation. He no...