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    Good News About the Coronavirus Vaccine Is Becoming Contagious

    Ever since the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine began last spring, upbeat announcements were stalked by ominous polls: No matter how encouraging the...

    Homes Divided: Vaccinated Health Workers Chart a New Normal

    Dr. Kuppalli and others expressed some discomfort at being first in line for the vaccine, while so many others in the United States and...

    Turkey and Brazil Say Chinese Vaccine Effective, With Sparse Supporting Data

    Turkish officials announced Thursday that a vaccine from the Chinese company Sinovac has an efficacy rate of 91.25 percent, but the finding was based...

    Boston Doctor Develops Severe Allergic Reaction After Getting Moderna Vaccine

    Moderna’s vaccine, like Pfizer’s, is designed around a molecule called messenger RNA, or mRNA, that’s injected into the upper arm. Once inside human cells,...

    US Will Require UK Travelers to Have a Negative Coronavirus Test

    People traveling immediately after the holiday may face uncertainty: Many private testing clinics and labs are closed on Christmas Day, so testing within the...

    Weekly Health Quiz: Body Fat, Pulse Oximeters and a New Strain of Coronavirus

    Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. Source link

    Covid Vaccine Launch Evokes Memories of Polio Era

    The initial polio vaccine rollout did not go smoothly. Within a month, six cases of polio had been linked to a vaccine manufactured by...

    U.S. to Require Negative Covid-19 Test for All Travelers From U.K.

    The United States will require all airline passengers arriving from Britain to test negative for the coronavirus within 72 hours of their departure, the...

    She’s a Chess Champion Who Can Barely See the Board

    Have you heard this story before? Girl has rough start in life, discovers chess. She becomes a United States champion. She studies Russian. And...

    How the Sinovac Vaccine Works

    The private Chinese company Sinovac developed a coronavirus vaccine called CoronaVac. On Dec. 23,...

    How Much Herd Immunity Is Enough?

    The study found that 1,064 of the 1,568 sailors aboard, or about 68 percent, had tested positive for the virus.But the carrier returned to...

    Who Should Get the Covid-19 Vaccine Next? A Debate

    Bazelon: We need them!Ezike: Right. I think, though, there’s a possible issue with the long-term-care population. Many of those people may die anyway, for...

    China Aims to Tackle Obesity with New ‘Healthy China’ Initiative

    HONG KONG — More than half of China’s adult population is either overweight or obese, according to a new government report released on Wednesday.Obesity...

    Coronavirus Variant Is Indeed More Transmissible, New Study Suggests

    The team then projected what the new variant would do over the next six months and built models that factored in different levels of...

    WHO | Yellow fever – Guinea

    Between 6 November and 15 December 2020, 52 suspected cases of yellow fever (YF), including...

    Pulse Oximeters May Be Less Accurate for Black People. Should They Use One?

    Home pulse oximeters have been the personal tech gadget of 2020 and a reassuring way for patients to monitor their health at home during...