Month: September 2021

Vehicles line up outside of a COVID-19 testing site at the Mount Olympus Senior Center in Millcreek on Tuesday. While doctors acknowledge COVID-19 usually causes minor symptoms in children, officials at Primary Children's Hospital say they're grappling with an influx of patients with coronavirus and other respiratory infections. ( Kristin Murphy, Deseret News) SALT LAKE CITY — While doctors acknowledge COVID-19 usually causes minor symptoms in children, officials at Primary Children's Hospital say they're grappling with an influx of patients with coronavirus and other respiratory infections — often at the same time. A teenage patient died at the hospital last week due to COVID-19. "It was absolutely devastating on the staff her...

Anthony Fauci Until cases dip to 10,000 a day, we are still in full ‘pandemic mode’, infectious disease expert says Melody Schreiber The US has far too many cases of the coronavirus to see an end to the pandemic, Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Axios in an interview published on Thursday.“The endgame is to suppress the virus,” Fauci said. “Right now, we’re still in pandemic mode, because we have 160,000 new infections a day.”The seven-day average of new cases declined slightly from the previous week, to 140,000 cases, although it’s possible reported case numbers are low given two holidays this week. Rates this high make it impossible to return to some semblance of normal life, Fauci said.“In a country of our size, you can’t be ...

US HERE ON THIS MONDAY. 12:30. I’M KELLY SASSO. SAMPLES OF MOSQUITOES IN PITTSBURGH’S WEST END NEIGORHBHOOD CAME BACK POSITIVE FOR WEST NILE VIRUS. THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL BE TREATING THE AFFECTED AREAS WITH PESTICIDE. THEY WILL BEOING G OUT TOMORROW NIGHT FROM 8:00 TO 10:00 P.M. THIS WILL HELP LOWERHE T MOSQUITO POPULATION AND MINIMIZE THE RISK OF HUMAN TRANSMISSION. WE’RE TOLD THE PESTICIDE DON'EST HURT HUMANS OR PETS. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN NO RERTPOED HUMAN CASES OF WEST NILE VIRUS IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY SINCE 2018. COUNTY OFFICIALS ARE URGING PEOPLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM MOSQUITOES BY GETTING RID OF ANY STANDING WATER IN THEIR YARDS, MAKING SURE OPEN WINDOWS AND DOORS HAVE SCREENS, ...

An old study supposedly reporting that ivermectin — already in the headlines — causes sterility in 85 percent of men has gained traction online this month. However, there are many reasons to doubt the claim. If ivermectin does any damage to male fertility at all, and that's a big if, the size of the effects are probably much smaller than are being reported. The anti-parasite drug ivermectin has become the latest culture war flashpoint, and that means plenty of people have become motivated to distort the truth about it. Most of that comes from people exaggerating the benefits found against COVID-19 in small studies to claim it removes the need for vaccination. There is absolutely no evidence for that, but that d...

Researchers identified three subtypes of lung cancer among never smokers with the disease, who comprise about 10-20% of the lung cancer patient population, according to the National Institutes of Health. Nonsmokers’ tumors were found to stem from mutations driven by natural bodily processes, the agency announced. Lung cancer is blamed for the top cause of cancer-related deaths around the world, and over 2 million are diagnosed with lung cancer worldwide each year. Findings published in Nature Genetics involved whole genome sequencing of tumor tissue compared to normal tissue from 232 never smokers diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer, and who hadn’t yet received treatment. FAUCI ON COVID-19: US LACKING ‘MODESTLY GOOD CONTROL’ OVER PANDEMIC "What we’re seeing is that there are di...

September 9, 2021 10:04 AM Posted: September 9, 2021 10:04 AM Updated: September 9, 2021 11:05 AM MADISON, Wis. — Public health officials in Dane County are extending their indoor mask mandate into October, citing growing coronavirus case numbers due to the delta variant. The new emergency order will go into effect at 12:01 a.m. Friday, September 10 and be in effect until 12:01 a.m. October 8. The new order includes new exemptions for those who are actively playing a wind instrument that has a fabric bell cover. Those who are presenting or performing a religious, political, media, educational, artistic, cultural, musical, or theatrical presentation are also exempt from t...