WEDNESDAY, Feb. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Many states are already dispensing with mask mandates, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s director says COVID-19 case and hospitalization numbers in the United States remain too high to ease its mask guidelines. The agency “still recommends that all schoolsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Vaccinated people in California will no longer have to wear masks indoors as of Feb. 15, but schoolchildren will still have to wear masks, state health officials announced Monday. However, they said that unvaccinated people will still have to wear masks indoors, andContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you’ve already had COVID-19, your natural antibodies may last as long as 20 months, a new study suggests. While this is reassuring, experts are quick to caution that the new findings don’t necessarily mean you’re protected against reinfection, and that vaccines remainContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Chimpanzees aren’t monkeying around when they catch insects and place them on open wounds, researchers report. An ongoing study of about 45 chimps in Loango National Park in Gabon is the first to document via video that such “healing” behavior is occurring, accordingContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Omicron COVID-19 patients are younger and have more breakthrough infections, a new study finds. But people infected with Omicron are also less likely to be hospitalized or need intensive respiratory support than those who’d gotten the earlier Alpha and Delta variants. The researchersContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A new study finds that kids who have received years of seasonal flu shots have antibodies that provide wider protection against new influenza strains, something researchers say doesn’t happen in adults. These findings could help efforts to develop a universal flu vaccine forContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The type of drill your dentist uses just might determine your chances of catching COVID-19 while in the chair. So claims new research that suggests dentists can significantly improve patient safety during the pandemic by switching the type of drill they use. BritishContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It’s less enchanting than reading tea leaves, but federal health officials announced Friday that they are expanding nationwide efforts to track COVID-19 by monitoring virus levels found in raw sewage. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects to add an additionalContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Medicare will soon provide up to eight free COVID rapid tests a month to seniors enrolled in the government health insurance program, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The new policy for the over-the-counter tests will take effect in early spring. The at-home testsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If the pandemic taught the world nothing else, it’s that viruses can mutate, potentially giving rise to new and more harmful variants. Now, new research reveals that’s exactly what has happened with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Called VB (for virulent subtypeContinue Reading