THURSDAY, July 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine provides surprisingly robust protection against the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 — but only if you’ve gotten both doses. Fresh data out of England shows that two doses of the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine is 88% effective in protectingContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will be produced for the first time in Africa by a South African firm, Pfizer announced Wednesday. The Biovac Institute in Cape Town will produce the vaccine for distribution across Africa, which is in desperate need of more COVID-19Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It takes two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to “wake up” cells that play a very important role in the body’s immune response, with the second dose increasing their numbers 100-fold, according to new research. The Stanford University study may help explainContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Coffee delivers the boost that many people need to start their day. Now, new research suggests this breakfast powerhouse may also provide some protection against COVID-19. Consuming vegetables and having been breastfed might also reduce your COVID-19 risk, according to the new studyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Exactly how deadly has the coronavirus pandemic been in the United States? New research confirms it has had a big hand in slashing life expectancy by a year and a half. That’s the lowest level of life expectancy since 2003 and the largestContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — About one in 20 kids hospitalized with COVID-19 develop debilitating brain or nerve complications that could haunt some for a long time, a new British study reports. Children with severe infections can suffer from brain inflammation, seizures, stroke, behavior changes, hallucinations and psychosis.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, July 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Breathing in smoke from wildfires may significantly increase the spread of COVID-19, researchers say. The warning, from a new study of links between smoke-caused air pollution and SARS-CoV-2 infections, comes as firefighters battle 80 large wildfires in the western United States. The largestContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. government issued its most dire warnings against travel to Britain on Monday as coronavirus cases surged in that country while nearly all COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in an effort to restart the economy. Both the U.S. State Department and the U.S.Continue Reading
MONDAY, July 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 vaccination rates in Canada have now beaten those in the United States. As of Saturday, more than 49% of eligible people in Canada were fully vaccinated, and 70% had received at least one dose of vaccine, according to figures from the OurContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A Chinese researcher has died after catching a rare infectious disease called the Monkey B virus, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention officials say. In March, the 53-year-old veterinarian dissected two dead monkeys as part of his work in a Beijing researchContinue Reading