Month: January 2022

MATT: AS CINDY WAS MENTIONING, TOMORROW IS FRIGID, SO IF YOU NTWA TO KEEP KIDS ENTERTAINED IN THE AQUARIUM AND EOYNJ ITS YOU’LL HAVE TO SHOW PROOF OF , VACCINATN.IO GYMS, BARS AND RESTAURANTS, MUSEUMS, AND SPORTS AREN AREAS ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS ORDER FROM MAYOR MICHELLE WU. THE AQUARIUM SAYS IT HAS SENT ALERTS TO PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT TICKETS FOR THIS WEEKEND. STAFF WILL BE CHECKING FOR THE VACCINE AT THE DOOR AND THE BOX OFFICE. >> WHAE VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE CITY OF BOSTON, THE COMMONWEALTH MOFASSACHUSETTS, AND THE CDC’S GUIDANCE THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC, SO THIS IS A NATURAL STEP FOR US TO CONTINUTOE FOLLOW THEIRUI GDANCE. MA:TT PROOF INCLUDES SHOWGIN YOUR CDC VACCINE CARD, A PICRETU OF IT, OR THE CITY OR STATE'’ DIGITAL VACCINE APP. ERTHE ARE SOME EXEMPTIONS, INCLUDING PE...

SAN FRANCISCO -- It is "reasonably likely" to expect the pandemic to draw to a close as soon as a month from today, though COVID-19 is likely to stay, according to UCSF's Chair of the Department of Medicine, Dr. Robert Wachter. He expects infections to fall and community immunity levels to rise from a combination of vaccinations, antiviral medication and omicron infections as the pandemic enters a new phase -- turning endemic. RELATED: Debunking the idea viruses evolve to become less deadly over timeThis sentiment is echoed by other infectious disease experts in the field. "The end game is really bringing down the virus to low levels where we just live with it. And what omicron will do is bring the virus down to low levels in the community because it's causing so much immunity," say Dr....

"Know how to not get COVID? Don't get tested." That's the premise of some viral TikTok videos that mock COVID-19 testing in which users boast about not getting tested despite showing symptoms – a message doctors are calling "extremely dangerous" and "selfish." In a video posted by @ilovedessert100, the user writes, "People out here saying they're missing their fam (vacation) or (Christmas) bc they have COVID... can't test positive if you don't get tested." Similar videos have garnered hundreds of thousands of likes as well as copycat videos and affirming comments.  Dr. Eric Ascher, a family medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, says this messaging isn't just on social media, and it gives him chills.  "Being in family practice, I hear that from more patients than I'd like ...

A virus that infects more than 90% of adults and causes the “kissing disease” has been linked with the onset of multiple sclerosis in a new study. Researchers at Harvard University have added further evidence that the same virus which causes the illness mononucleosis, aka “mono,” and commonly passed through saliva — hence “kissing disease” — may also encourage the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a member of the herpes family, and one of the most common human viruses in the world. Some EBV infections may prompt fever, rash, sore throat, body aches and swollen glands — the conditions of mononucleosis. But new findings published in the journal Science on Thursday sho...