Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Despite lax rules, COVID-19 claims few lives in Haiti. Scientists want to know why.
In Haiti, they are acting like COVID-19 doesn't exist.
Dec 16, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US to start vaccinating as Germany returns to partial lockdown
The United States prepared to start its COVID-19 vaccination program on Monday as the nation's death toll edged towards 300,000, while Germany announced a partial lockdown over the holidays due to an explosion of cases.
Dec 14, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
7 of top 10 killers pre-Covid were non-communicable diseases: WHO
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for seven of the top 10 causes of death before the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, with heart disease killing more people than ever before.
Dec 9, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
WHO warns malaria fight flat-lining
Progress in eliminating malaria has stalled in recent years, the World Health Organization said Monday, with more than 400,000 people once again estimated to have died from the disease last year.
Nov 30, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
With 250,000 US deaths, COVID-19 is triggering more end-of-life planning—and young people want in on the discussions
In homes across the U.S., families increasingly know someone who has been sick or hospitalized with COVID-19. The death toll passed a quarter-million Americans on Nov. 18, less than 10 months into the pandemic.
Nov 19, 2020
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Europe, U.S. watch case totals grow, debate new restrictions
Confirmed coronavirus infections continued to soar Saturday in many parts of the U.S. and Europe. In some cases, so did anger over the restrictions governments put in place to try to stem the tide.
Oct 25, 2020
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
When disasters strike, nursing homes residents face considerable risk
Government officials vastly undercounted the death toll among Florida nursing home residents after the destruction of Hurricane Irma in 2017, according to new research led by a Brown University scholar who studies disaster ...
Oct 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Having flu and COVID together doubles death risk in hospitalized patients
While health officials worry about a potential "twindemic" of COVID-19 and the flu this winter, a new study finds that hospital patients who were infected with both viruses were more than twice as likely to die as those infected ...
Sep 22, 2020
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Vaccination
Chief of U.S. vaccine initiative says October timeline 'extremely unlikely, but not impossible'
The chief adviser for the White House vaccine program said Thursday it was "extremely unlikely, but not impossible" that a vaccine could be available by the end of October.
Sep 4, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New US virus cases fall as masks gain favor but testing lags
The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling—a development experts say most likely reflects more mask-wearing but also insufficient testing—even as the disease continues to claim nearly 1,000 ...
Aug 25, 2020
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