Hospitals are OVERCOUNTING children admitted for Covid: Nearly half of kids recorded as needing inpatient treatment for virus were likely there for something else (and just happened to test positive), study suggests Stanford University research analyzed data on 117 kids who had tested positive for COVID-19 as inpatients at its pediatric hospital Only about 55% of … Read more
Weekly COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. could decline by as much as 71 percent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now predicts. CDC’s latest forecasts suggest that between 1,200 and 4,600 people will die of COVID-19 during the week ending in June 12. By then, the agency predicts that the overall death toll … Read more
Americans drink 109 bottles of wine or 366 pints of beer every year – and has the fourth highest alcohol dependence rate in the world, report claims… so, take our quiz to find out if YOU drink too much OECD report claims Americans are the 21st biggest drinkers in the world behind most of Europe’s … Read more
Americans are ‘misinterpreting’ the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest mask guidelines, Dr Anthony Fauci says. ‘I think people are misinterpreting, thinking that this is a removal of a mask mandate for everyone. It’s not,’ Fauci told Axios ahead of a virtual event. ‘It’s an assurance to those who are vaccinated that they … Read more
Britons drink 120 bottles of wine or 400 pints every year on average but consume less alcohol than the French, Germans and Spaniards, data revealed today. An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report has called on governments around the world to do more to tackle binge drinking. It claims each Briton drinks roughly … Read more
More than 600,000 American children between ages 12 and 15 were vaccinated against COVID-19 last week, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr Rochelle Walensky said during a Tuesday White House briefing. U.S. regulators last week authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12. That widened vaccine eligibility to about … Read more
COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna work against the variant that emerged in India – known as B.1.617 – and drove its catastrophic recent surge, according to a new study from New York University. Both of the mRNA vaccines will neutralize the variant’s spike protein, the infectious surface part of the virus that lets … Read more
The U.S. has hit a milestone of progress toward herd immunity against COVID-19: At least 60 percent of of U.S. adults have had at least one dose of vaccines against the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And the campaign to inoculate Americans is finally closing the racial gap, agency … Read more
As national U.S. case numbers fall to their lowest point since March 2020, 15 states reported zero COVID-19 deaths yesterday. The states, including Delaware, Georgia and Minnesota, are politically and geographically diverse, with no-death days reported in the South, Northeast, Midwest, and West coast. The falling case counts are thanks to vaccinations. Over one-third of … Read more
Dr Anthony Fauci admitted on Tuesday that he knew he was at ‘extremely low’ risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors after getting vaccinated, but kept wearing a mask any way. ‘I didn’t want to look like I was giving mixed signals, but being a fully vaccinated person, the chances of my getting infected in an indoor … Read more