Disease Prevention

Studies: COVID contagiousness may linger beyond five days; COVID-19 worse for vapers

Fri, 2022-01-14 19:04 — mike kraft

Contagiousness may linger beyond five days; COVID-19 worse for vapers The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Nancy Lapid Reuters

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New CDC guidance encourages more Americans to consider N95 masks

Fri, 2022-01-14 17:27 — mike kraft

CDC encourages more Americans to consider N95 masks | AP News NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Those kinds of masks are considered better at filtering virus from the air. AP NEWS

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New Studies: COVID vaccines effective, with limited waning

Fri, 2022-01-14 14:06 — mike kraft

Studies: COVID vaccines effective, with limited waning In 1 of the 3 studies, vaccination was 98% protective against ICU stay and life support in teens. CIDRAP

A trio of new studies yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine report encouraging results on the effectiveness and durability of protection of COVID-19 vaccines against hospitalization and death, including teens.

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Concerns about U.S. Hospitals’ medical oxygen supplies in the face of possible Respiratory “Twindemic”

Fri, 2022-01-14 13:40 — mike kraft

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Mask rules get tighter in Europe amid winter’s COVID-19 wave

Fri, 2022-01-14 10:19 — mike kraft

Mask rules get tighter in Europe in winter's COVID-19 wave | AP News ROME (AP) — To mask or not to mask is a question Italy settled early in the COVID-19 outbreak with a vigorous “yes." Now the onetime epicenter of the pandemic in Europe hopes even stricter mask rules will help it beat the latest infection surge. AP NEWS

... Other countries are taking similar action as the more transmissible — yet, apparently, less virulent — omicron variant spreads through the continent.

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White House: Onus on employers "to determine whether their workplace will be safe for employees"

Thu, 2022-01-13 17:25 — mike kraft

White House: Onus now on employers "to determine whether their workplace will be safe for employees" White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded to Thursday's Supreme Court ruling blocking the Biden’s administration’s vaccine or test requirement for large businesses, telling reporters the burden is now on individual employers “to determine whether their workplaces will be safe for employees, and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers.” By <a href="/profiles/rhea-mogul">Rhea Mogul</a>, Adam Renton, Jack Guy, <a href="/profiles/aditi-sandal">Aditi Sangal</a>, Melissa Macaya, <a href="/profiles/melissa

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Vaccine mandates: Quebec's 'unvaxxed tax' leads to spike in first-dose appointments

Thu, 2022-01-13 13:12 — mike kraft

Canada says vaccine mandates work as Quebec's 'unvaxxed tax' leads to spike in first-dose appointments

(CNN) One day after the Canadian province of Quebec announced it would financially penalize residents who are unvaccinated, the province's health minister said Wednesday first-time appointments spiked in the hours following the announcement.

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