Month: September 2021

(Refiles to remove extraneous word in second paragraph) ZURICH (Reuters) - Moderna Inc Chief Executive Stéphane Bancel thinks the coronavirus pandemic could be over in a year as increased vaccine production ensures global supplies, he told the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung. "If you look at the industry-wide expansion of production capacities over the past six months, enough doses should be available by the middle of next year so that everyone on this earth can be vaccinated. Boosters should also be possible to the extent required," he told the newspaper in an interview. Vaccinations would soon be available even for infants, he said. "Those who do not get vaccinated will immunize themselves naturally, because the Delta variant is so contagious. In this way we will end up in a situ...

If you've ever calculated the calories you burn in your workouts and wondered why they don't add up to more pounds dropped, well, turns out there's a scientific reason for that - and no, it's not just that you might eat a little more after a tough workout. According to a new study in Current Biology, our bodies "compensate" for the calories we burn during workouts by expending fewer calories throughout the rest of the day. That adds up to a lower net calorie burn than you think you're getting - by a surprisingly significant amount. The study analyzed data from 1,754 adults that told them two key measurements: how many calories each person burned simply by being alive (their "basal" expenditure, also known as your basal metabolic rate); and how many overall calories they burned during a da...

Protesters hold signs during an anti-vaccine mandate protest outside Toronto General Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo MONTREAL, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Police in the Canadian province of Quebec are searching for a man they suspect of punching a nurse in the face for giving his wife a COVID-19 vaccine without his consent, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The man confronted the female nurse on Monday morning in the office of a pharmacy in the city of Sherbrooke, about 155 kilometers (96 miles) southeast of Montreal, where she was assigned to administer vaccines, police spokesman Martin Carrier said by phone. "Our suspect went directly into the office and began to yell at the nurse," Carrier said. The man appeared to be very shocked ...

ultrastructural morphology exhibited by corona viruses Tuolumne Public Health shared a statement with their report of the 100th death due to COVID-1...