The United States reached another grim milestone on Friday, as the confirmed coronavirus death toll topped 700,000, just over a year and a half into the pandemic, and despite the wide availability of vaccines. The milestone, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, comes less than two weeks after the national death toll surpassed the estimated number of fatalities in the U.S. during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Despite national COVID-19 metrics showing encouraging signs of decline, approximately 1,500 Americans are dying from the virus every day, according to federal data. “Reaching 700,000 deaths is a tragic and completely avoidable milestone. We had the knowledge and the tools to prevent this from happening, and unfortunately politics, lack of urgency and mistrust in science got us here,” said John Brownstein, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and ABC News contributor. Continue reading “US: 158,284 new cases, death toll tops 700,000”
‘This is a profound game changer’: Merck’s antiviral pill cuts risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and death in half, data show
Former FDA head says Merck’s oral pill could become a powerful tool in combating COVID in high-risk patients who are already symptomatic. Merck cheered investors and healthcare experts alike on Friday with the news that its COVID-19 antiviral cut the risk of hospitalization or death by roughly half in a late-stage trial, and could become a powerful tool in reining in the pandemic. Continue reading “‘This is a profound game changer’: Merck’s antiviral pill cuts risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and death in half, data show”
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Remdesivir Shows A Lot Of Promise In Clinical Studies
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Wall Street turns green on COVID drug Molnupiravir optimism
Israel reports very few myocarditis cases after Pfizer boosters… Urgent Aspirating the syringe when getting shot
JERUSALEM, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Israel’s Health Ministry has identified fewer than 10 cases of heart inflammation following a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine among millions administered, according to recently released data.
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YouTube blocks all anti-vaccine content… That in their sole discretion deem untrue…
YouTube on Wednesday announced it is banning “harmful vaccine content” from the platform, a long-awaited shift that vastly expands its existing policy on medical misinformation. The new rules explicitly ban content that makes false claims about any “currently administered vaccines that are approved and confirmed to be safe and effective” by local health authorities and the World Health Organization.
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Pfizer seeks FDA clearance for COVID-19 vaccine in younger children
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CDC backs COVID-19 boosters for high-risk adults, workers, older Americans, prisoners
Sept 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday backed a booster shot of the Pfizer /BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for Americans aged 65 and older, adults with underlying medical conditions and adults in high-risk working and institutional settings. The decision by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is aligned with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of the shot earlier this week and follows an August announcement of a broad booster rollout from her and other top U.S. health officials.
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Speaking of STUPID School Reopenings Falter as U.S. Kids Near 1 Million Covid Cases
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States are resisting a return to remote learning even as the delta variant leads to higher numbers of Covid-19 cases among children and teachers.
U.S. schools were counting on widespread vaccinations to help get all students back to in-person classes for the first time since early 2020. Mere weeks into the effort, signs of another taxing year are emerging amid scattershot safety rules and rising Covid-19 among children. Over the past month, with kindergarten through 12th grade in session, the country has reported almost 1 million cases among those under 18. Though kids typically are less likely than adults to become severely ill with Covid, they increasingly are contracting the highly contagious delta variant. As of Sunday, 2,000 schools nationwide had closed — 18% more than a week earlier, according to the Burbio tracker.
At-home COVID-19 test kits sold out across America… We have inventory
Struggling to find coronavirus test? You’re not alone, thanks to the delta variant
When COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations plummeted in late spring, many large, government-run testing sites from Los Angeles to New York switched to vaccinations or shut down. That was before the highly contagious delta variant became the dominant coronavirus strain, accelerating cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Americans are getting checked for the virus at a pace of more than 1 million tests each day, according to Johns Hopkins University. Some experts said it’s harder to find testing appointments than it was last winter, when large, drive-thru sites fueled more than 2 million daily tests.
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