The United States will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries on Monday, Nov. 29, in a bid to control the spread of the new COVID-19 variant. A proclamation from President Joe Biden said travel will be curbed from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi in addition to South Africa. American citizens…
Biden Restricts Travel From 8 African Countries Over COVID-19 Variant
Predictions of Smallpox Return Are Nothing New
COVID-19 is still the virus of the moment, but the emergence of a much older and more deadly virus is said to lurk just over the horizon. This premonition comes from Microsoft founder turned vaccine-focused philanthropist Bill Gates. In a recent interview with Policy Exchange, Gates warned governments to prepare for bioterrorist attacks using smallpox….
Vaccine Makers Should Agree to Lift Liability Protection From COVID-19 Shots: Former HHS Official
The manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines and federal health officials should remove liability protection from the jabs if they insist on children getting vaccinated, a former Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official says. “Leave the children alone,” Dr. Paul Alexander, a senior HHS official on COVID-19 pandemic policy during the Trump administration, told EpochTV’s…
Federal Officials Should Lift Liability Protection From COVID-19 Shots: Former HHS Official
The manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines and federal health officials should remove liability protection from the jabs if they insist on children getting vaccinated, a former Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official says. “Leave the children alone,” Dr. Paul Alexander, a senior HHS official on COVID-19 pandemic policy during the Trump administration, told EpochTV’s…
Antibiotics: Even Low Use in Children Can Have a Negative Impact
Primary care physicians in the United Kingdom carry out more than 300 million patient consultations every year and at least a quarter of these deal with children. Almost two-thirds of such appointments are for coughs, sore throats, or earaches—illnesses that young children commonly get. Doctors and nurses group these types of illnesses as “acute respiratory tract infections.”…
Senate Democrats Want Biden Administration to Push for COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver
A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday said that President Joe Biden’s administration should push for a waiver of intellectual property rules governing COVID-19 vaccines. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and nine other senators in a letter to Biden said a waiver of the rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO) “will unlock local production of…
Doctors Told to Suggest Meditation, Self-Help Before Drugs to People With Mild Depression
People suffering from less severe depression should be offered a range of options before being given anti-depressants, doctors in the UK have been told. Therapy, self-help with support, group exercise, group mindfulness, or meditation are among the list of options patients can choose that are preferable to drugs, according to draft guidance published on Tuesday by…
What Is Next for Telehealth?
By Zohar Babin As COVID-19 cases wane, the world is gradually ushering in a new normal, with many countries relaxing regulations on social distancing, venue capacity limits, cultural life, masking, and more. But the dawn of a post-COVID world won’t mean the twilight of all pandemic-era phenomena. Remote and hybrid work, for example, aren’t going…
Northern, Western States See Surge in COVID-19 Cases
COVID-19 metrics have been rising in the northern and western United States in recent weeks after a surge in the South over the summer. Case counts and hospitalizations have increased considerably in Michigan and Minnesota, which now have two of the top case rates nationwide. Michigan saw only a few hundred cases per day throughout…
Research Links COVID-19 in Pregnancy With Stillbirths
Pregnant women with COVID-19 face increased chances for stillbirths compared with uninfected women, and that risk spiked to four times higher after the Delta variant emerged, new government data show. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report Friday that examined 1.2 million deliveries in 736 hospitals nationwide from March 2020 through…
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