By Jason R. McKnight, The Conversation I hear that I might still have to wear a mask even after I get vaccinated. Why? It will likely be the continued recommendation that everyone wear a mask when in public even after receiving the vaccination for COVID-19. While these vaccines appear to be highly effective in preventing […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo vows that New York will do a better job than all other states in the nation to get its residents vaccinated at Riverside church. – New York, NY – November 15, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News NEW YORK — New York could be headed for a […]
By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter, WebMD Special training may help COVID-19 patients regain their sense of smell after suffering parosmia, a new British study suggests. Parosmia is a condition where people have strange and often unpleasant smell distortions. Instead of smelling a lemon, for example, you may smell rotting cabbage, or chocolate may smell like […]
By Carolyn Crist, WebMD The U.S. could see an overwhelming surge in coronavirus cases in December and January as people meet to celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and other winter holidays, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in several interviews on Monday. “We have a baseline […]
Epidemic concept COVID-19. Coronavirus Test Station. Medical worker in full protective checks the temperature at a COVID-19 drive-thru test site. Checking children before school. (Shutterstock) By Amy Zimmer, Chalkbeat, and Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat, THE CITY Teachers at P.S. 63 anticipated their Bronx school would shut down last week when they learned from a company conducting […]
The arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines is upon us. With the long history of medical racism in the United States, the politicization of the response to the pandemic and the huge numbers of Blacks dead, Black communities’ distrust of health care systems and institutions feels insurmountable. Attorney Brian Figeroux discusses taking the vaccine and the […]
New York, NY-Today, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Health and Human Services (HHS) agency announced that the Federal COVID-19 vaccine program would no longer mandate participating states to acquire and share personal information, such as drivers licenses or social security numbers, of residents who receive the vaccine. The news comes after the […]
"We let our guards down. Please tell everybody to be careful. This is real, and if you get diagnosed, get help immediately," former Sen. Larry Dixon said.
By Wilson Wong A former Alabama state senator died of Covid-19 last week at age 78, officials said. The former senator, Larry Dixon, a Republican who was also a former executive director of the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners, died Friday, the board said in a statement. Dr. David Thrasher, a pulmonologist in Montgomery who […]
NYC Health and Hospital mobile Units offers free COVID testing in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. – Bronx, New York: USA – November 20, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Joseph De Avila, MSN New York could implement regionalized shutdowns again if hospitals approach capacity limits, under new measures introduced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo designed to […]
By Loanne O’Neal, The Undefeated With the Food and Drug Administration likely to authorize two emergency use coronavirus vaccines within weeks, and more drugs in the pipeline, public health officials say 20 million Americans could be vaccinated by the end of 2020, and tens of millions more by spring. The two-dose vaccines represent a potential […]