Month: August 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci has dismissed a study that deemed the Moderna vaccine as more effective than the Pfizer one against the COVID-19 delta variant.  The Mayo Clinic and Cambridge-based biotech company nfrence conducted the study, posted in medrvix last week, by analyzing samples of delta variant prevalence in Minnesota from January to July.  When asked if this indicated that individuals should seek a Moderna dose for the booster shot, Fauci disagreed.  OKLAHOMA PROTEST AGAINST MASK, VACCINE MANDATES DRAWS HUNDREDS TO STATEHOUSE "That study … is a pre-print study, it hasn’t been fully peer-reviewed," Fauci said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "I don’t doubt what they’re seeing, but there are a lot of confounding variables in there, about when one was started, the relative amount of people i...

According to multiple studies, long Covid may affect up to a third of Covid-19 patients. Smith is one of them, and people like her continue to feel the effects of the disease months, weeks, or, in Smith's case, more than a year after an acute infection. A study out of Stanford University reported that the most common persistent symptoms after Covid-19 were fatigue and trouble breathing, which impacted people's ability to work and do other activities. Participants in that study also reported memory problems, loss of taste and smell, and even hair loss. In late March of 2020, Smith, a school teacher from Baltimore, Maryland, went to her primary care doctor with a sore throat, shortness of breath, dizziness, diarrhea, and difficulty standing up -- some of the symptoms that are now recogniz...

Just four of New Jersey’s 21 counties are below the highest risk threshold for coronavirus transmission, as eight counties saw their rates rise. Seventeen counties have “high” rates of coronavirus transmission while the remaining four have “substantial” transmission, meaning masks are recommended for indoor public settings regardless of vaccination status in all New Jersey counties, the CDC says. The updated map is based on virus transmission rates over the past week. That number has risen substantially since the start of August, when just ten counties had virus levels high enough to warrant masks. Virus rates surpassed the threshold for masks to be recommended in all counties last week. Chart not showing? Click here. The four counties now considered to have “substantial” levels...

Dr. Anthony Fauci has dismissed a study that deemed the Moderna vaccine as more effective than the Pfizer one against the COVID-19 delta variant.  The Mayo Clinic and Cambridge-based biotech company nfrence conducted the study, posted in medrvix last week, by analyzing samples of delta variant prevalence in Minnesota from January to July.  When asked if this indicated that individuals should seek a Moderna dose for the booster shot, Fauci disagreed.  OKLAHOMA PROTEST AGAINST MASK, VACCINE MANDATES DRAWS HUNDREDS TO STATEHOUSE "That study … is a pre-print study, it hasn’t been fully peer-reviewed," Fauci said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "I don’t doubt what they’re seeing, but there are a lot of confounding variables in there, about when one was started, the relative amount of people i...

We’ve all heard or used the excuse one or two dozen times before: the extra weight gain is because our metabolism has slowed down! Well, according to a new breakthrough study, that’s likely not true — not until your 60, anyway. The study, published last week in Science magazine, shows metabolism leveling off and staying put from ages 20 to 60. That’s right — your metabolism doesn’t slow down past stabilization until you’re 60 years old, and then it continues to slow down. What’s more, ladies, the study shows the stabilization in both men and women with no real differences between the metabolic rates. According to the study, here are the four different stages of metabolism, The New York Times outlined: There’s infancy, up until age 1, when calorie burning is at its peak, accelerating unt...