As states increasingly promote face masks as a way to control the spread of COVID-19, the top-line message has been: Wear a mask to protect others. While it's true that most face masks are more effective in preventing you ...
Aug 6, 2020
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As the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise and the deaths mount, the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) has drafted a set of recommendations for health care workers on the front lines, to help ...
May 4, 2020
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People want to debate whether wearing a mask works against COVID-19, but the CDC says it's the gloves you should take off.
Jul 28, 2020
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Test samples collected by people who swabbed their own nasal passages yielded results for the COVID-19 virus that were as accurate as samples collected by a health care worker, according to a small study by researchers at ...
Jun 12, 2020
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(HealthDay)—New York City resident Jeanne Jennings was so sick with COVID-19 she couldn't draw a decent breath.
Aug 11, 2020
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Long shifts working in intensive care and the risk of catching COVID and passing it on to his wife and children left Joan Pons Laplana exhausted.
Jan 21, 2022
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From the moment in January when she first heard about the new coronavirus, Suzanne Kathro worried about catching it. In mid-August, she did.
Sep 24, 2020
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Children of nurses who identify as Republican are less likely to receive a COVID-19 vaccination compared with children of nurses who identify as Democrat, according to our recently published study in the Journal of Community ...
Dec 5, 2022
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Frode Eick, a Ph.D. student at the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oslo (UiO), and colleagues have conducted a study of prenatal care for undocumented women in Norway. "Approximately ...
Nov 22, 2022
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Both of my parents have been vaccinated for COVID-19. The doctor told my mom she is eligible for a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, but my dad is not eligible for a booster now. Can you explain who needs ...
Sep 17, 2021
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