Month: September 2021

Prof Jason Leitch, Scotland's national clinical director, told the BBC the chief medical officers have been asked for "advice in the round - not just about the individual risk per kid, but also look at the educational environment, the time off school, the safety of schools".

One neuroscientist finds that simply savoring a cup of tea as a daily morning ritual has helped her quell anxious thoughts in pandemic times. "It felt like I finally had a great excuse to just be present and enjoy the breeze and warmth of the bowl of tea and the reflections that I could see on the surface," she says. Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images One neuroscientist find...

COVID-19 long-haulers are more likely to lose function in their kidneys due to damage or disease in the area, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. This also includes long-haulers with mild cases of the virus. The researchers, based at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, concluded that survivors of the coronavirus have a higher risk of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and that survivors have an "increased risk of kidney outcomes in the post-acute phase of the disease." cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); }); if(window.location.pathname.indexOf("656089") != -1){document.getElement...

An unvaccinated college student from Texas with no underlying health conditions died of COVID-19. The mother of Breanna Gray said she wished she would have "forced" her daughter to get vaccinated. In the last phone call before she died, Gray was "screaming through a mask", her mother said. Loading Something is loading. The regretful mother of an unvaccinate...

"It's like that movie 'The Croods'," he said, referring to the 2013 movie about a prehistoric family forced to leave their home. "People wanted to stay in the cave ... We can't stay in the cave and we can get out of it safely." Since then, debate on the issue has descended into a less than family-friendly slinging match between states over a national plan to open internal borders before Christmas. The problem is not all of Australia is keen to leave the cave so quickly. In Australia's largest eastern cities of Sydney and Melbourne, rising Covid-19 infections have led to months-long lockdowns and strict rules on who can travel interstate. Businesses are suffering, families are split, and the ongoing uncertainty is taking a toll on people's mental health. Yet in parts of the coun...