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Vaccination

EU divided over 'vaccine passports'

EU countries are increasingly looking at using proof of COVID-19 inoculation as a "vaccine passport" but the idea is divisive.

Feb 10, 2021

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Vaccination

Sweden, Denmark to develop digital vaccine 'passports'

Sweden on Thursday announced it would start the development of digital vaccine certificates, to be used for travel and potentially more, following a similar move by Denmark a day earlier.

Feb 4, 2021

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

63,000 extra deaths and a year off life expectancy—COVID in 2020 in England and Wales

An estimated 62,750 excess deaths resulted in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales, according to demographic experts at Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science—who reveal life expectancy was ...

Jan 27, 2021

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Icelanders get Covid vaccine 'passports'

Iceland has issued its first vaccination certificates to ease international travel for those inoculated against COVID-19, authorities told AFP on Tuesday, with EU countries still haggling over using such documents.

Jan 26, 2021

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

EU looks at vaccine certificates to help summer tourism

The European Union is looking at a common vaccine certificate to help get travelers to their vacation destinations and prevent tourism from suffering another disastrous year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Jan 15, 2021

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

French group's test distinguishes flu and Covid

French medical diagnostics company bioMerieux said Wednesday it had received certification to sell a test capable of distinguishing regular flu from COVID-19 and two other respiratory illnesses with similar symptoms.

Dec 16, 2020

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Health

329 people injured by firearms in US each day, but for every death, 2 survive

Firearm injury is a major public health crisis in the United States. In 2017, more than 39,000 deaths were caused by firearms, but the incidence of cases in which people survive after a trip to the emergency department, known ...

Dec 7, 2020

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Pediatrics

Black, Hispanic adolescents significantly more likely to die by police intervention than whites

A recent study evaluating the use of force by police against children found that Black and Hispanic adolescents are significantly more likely to die from shootings related to police intervention compared to non-Hispanic white ...

Nov 24, 2020

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Gerontology & Geriatrics

Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows

As more than 90,000 of the nation's long-term care residents have died in the coronavirus pandemic, advocates for the elderly say a tandem wave of fatalities is quietly claiming tens of thousands more who are succumbing not ...

Nov 19, 2020

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