Month: September 2021

The National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that it was awarding nearly $470 million to New York University Langone Health for research into the long-term effects of COVID-19 to ramp up an unprecedented national effort to study so-called "long COVID." The federal money will be divvied up by NYU to fund more than 100 researchers at institutions around the country, accelerating work to build a sweeping "meta-cohort" encompassing thousands COVID-19 survivors of various ages and backgrounds who are still experiencing symptoms more than a month after their initial infection. "The only way we're going to sort this out is with very large studies that collect lots and lots of data about symptoms, physical findings, and laboratory measures," NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told r...

Anna Alfaro arrives at Whittier Elementary School with her daughters Guadalupe, right, and Allison, center, on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Kids in Salt Lake City are headed back to school Tuesday wearing masks after the mayor issued a mandate order despite heavy restrictions on mask mandates imposed by the GOP-dominated Legislature. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Can kids be harmed wearing masks to protect against COVID? No, there is no scientific evidence showing masks cause harm to kids’ health despite baseless claims suggesting otherwise. The claims are circulating on social media and elsewhere just as virus outbreaks are hitting many reopened U.S. schools — particularly those without mask mandates. Among the unfounded arg...

SYDNEY, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria state reported its biggest one-day rise in COVID-19 cases of the year on Thursday as a surge in vaccinations nationwide raised hope for easing restrictions with almost 70% of the adult population having had a first dose. Victoria, home to the city of Melbourne, detected 514 new infections, exceeding the year's previous daily high of 473 on Monday. Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's largest cities, have ramped up their immunisation drives as the country struggles to contain a third wave of infections fuelled by the highly infectious Delta variant, putting nearly half of the 25 million population under strict stay-at-home orders. Still, Australia's coronavirus infection rates are far lower than those in many other countries, with some 80,000 c...

SECRETARY OF HEALTH ALLISON BEAM WAS HERET A PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL, BUT SHE SAID THAT THE VACCINE WAS NEVER MEANT TO PREVENT COVID-19, BUT IF YOU DIDET G THE VIRUS AFTER GETTING THE SHOT, SHE SAYS NEW STATISTICS SHOW YOU’RE LESS LIKELY TO DIE. AT A PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY THE STATE ADMITTED BREAKTHROUGH COVID-19 CASES ARE ON THE RISE, BUT IF YOU’VE HAD A VACCINE AND YOU STILL GET CORONAVIRUS, SHE SAYS CHANCES ARE YOU WON’T BE AS SICK OR PASS AWAY. SO YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT ONLY 0.003% OF VACCINADTE INDIVIDUALS RIGHT NOW HAVE PASSED AWAY FROM COVID-19. AND SO IT’S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO STILL GET VACCINATED TO PROTECT AGAINST THAT HOSPITALIZATION AND DEATH AFTER EMIL FORYORY ANDER H FAMILY WERE FULLY VACCINATED IN THE SPRING. THEY THOUGHT THEIR CHANCES OF G...