-
Putin can’t be allowed to win in Ukraine.
US Defense Secretary LloydAustin has said he believes Ukraine is “making progress” in the Kherson region as they continue to counter Russian invasion. “There has been a kind of change in the battlefield dynamics,” Austin added. “The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly tried to deliver humanitarian supplies with food, hygiene products and so on to the…
-
There has been a huge spike in cases in China, so the country stopped publishing daily COVID data.
China’s COVID-19 death toll is only reported from deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure, a Chinese health official said. This comes as the country eases coronavirus-related restrictions following nationwide protests over its heavy economic and social toll. The country will begin distributing Pfizer’s Paxlovid to Beijing’s community health centres in the coming days, state media…
-
Travel tracing will be dropped as it relaxes ‘zero-COVID’.
China has declared that the battle against coronavirus remains “winnable”. The country’s top health officials on Wednesday said the changes to the rules were based on scientific evidence, including the spread of the Omicron variant, the vaccination rate, and China’s level of experience in responding to the virus. China has reported over 1.8 lakh coronavirus…
-
Get ready to guess the viral variant.
US scientist Anthony Fauci said that a new variant of coronavirus called BA.5, which accounted for over one in three new COVID-19 infections nationwide last week, has bumped BA.5 off as “the dominant variant”. He added that most people feel somewhere in the middle of November that they’ll wind up being a substantial proportion and…
-
Jamie LeeCurtis says the “nepo baby” conversation is designed to diminish and insult.
Nepo babies are the children of Hollywood stars who become famous because of their family ties. Several nepo baby trends appeared in HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’, which also featured Alexander Skarsgrd, according to a report. Reportedly, eight nepo baby trends appeared in ‘Once Upon a Time’, which also featured Maya Hawke and Zo Kravitz.
-
The Confederate monument will be replaced by a statue.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said it will pay tribute to Henrietta Lacks with a statue at the Lacks Plaza in US’ Virginia. “We acknowledge that she was not only significant…but she was as relevant as any historic figure in the world today,” attorney Ben Crump, representing Lacks’ family, said. Henrietta Lacks donated…
-
China has shortened its quarantines in a bid to ease its zero carbon policy.
A video showing a Chinese woman shouting at hazmat-suited workers in a building in China over coronavirus has gone viral on social media. The woman can be seen yelling at the workers and telling them “no more” while saying, “You must get out of here.” China is the third worst coronavirus-hit country with over 2.44…
-
A family is in need of heart surgery for their baby.
An American couple has claimed they faced a months-long wait for a bed to open at their local children’s hospital so baby MJ could have a heart surgery she needed. “Everybody we’ve told about the bed shortage, that we have told about the nurses…and doctors telling us how burnt-out and frustrated they are and how…
-
China has limits on how it defines deaths in official count.
China has said that the number of new coronavirus cases in the country rose to 1,43,724, marking the highest daily rise in the total virus cases in the world. The death toll from the virus in China climbed to 37 while the total number of cases rose to 1.41 million. China reported over 11,500 new…
-
There is no Pandemic of the Unvaccinated Anymore.
US has the most COVID-19-related deaths in the last three years, making it the country’s third leading cause of death. Around 300 Americans are dying from COVID-19 daily, making it the country’s third-leading cause of death, the US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention said. Only about 14% of eligible Americans have got an updated…
-
The critical lesson for Democrats was taught by GretchenWhitmer.
US lawmakers passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a measure to allow pregnant people the ability to request reasonable accommodation like carrying a water bottle, sitting rather than standing, to protect their health and the health of their pregnancies. The bill is a part of Congress’ end-of-year omnibus package. Families are mostly left to find…
-
Crispr therapy is designed to attack tumors.
Researchers at the University College London have used gene editing to identify each patient’s cancer receptors and put them in immune cells without them. The edits allowed the donor T cells to slip past the body’s defenses, recognise a certain receptor on leukemia cells, and kill the cancer. The patient will receive the edited cells…
-
India is trying to eliminate disease by 2023.
An epidemiologist at Public Health Foundation of India in Gurugram, Giridhar Babu said India is set to miss its deadline to eradicate the disease because of an outbreak of the disease. “Now, it’s a Herculean job to be able to catch up everyone who missed,” Babu said. India has recorded over 12 thousand cases this…
-
Franco Harris was a PittsburghSteelers legend who died at age 72.
Franco Harris, who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s, passed away aged 72 due to complications from a heart attack. Harris had scored the “Immaculate Reception” against Oakland on December 23, 1972, when he leapt into the air to haul in a deflected pass and avoid a tackle by Jack Tatum. It was…
-
Don’t listen to sleep experts.
A study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins University found that people who sleep less than seven hours a night have more chronic diseases such as obesity and high blood pressure. Researchers also found that people who sleep less than six hours a night have more chronic diseases such as obesity and blood pressure. According…
-
Drug overdose deaths in the US were at record levels during the Covid-19 vaccine outbreak.
The US reported a 12.5% rise in drug overdose deaths in July compared to the previous year, as per the data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number of drug overdose deaths increased by 50% compared to the same month last year, the data showed. Notably, the US has witnessed…
-
There’s a reason vaccine hesitancy persists in China.
Amid rising cases of coronavirus in China, the country’s Health Commission reported that 1,476 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases were reported across the country on Thursday. The total number of COVID-19 cases across China has risen to 3,07,713. China’s National Health Commission scaled down its daily COVID-19 report from daily to one on Wednesday in response…
-
Many hospitals in the US threaten patients with lawsuits for debts.
A US report found that about half of nonprofit hospitals billing patients with incomes low enough to qualify for charity care were billing patients with incomes Low enough to qualify for charity care. The 2019 KHN analysis of hospital tax filings found that nearly half of nonprofit medical systems were billing patients with incomes Low…
-
China is known for its obsession with Zero Covid but the Trauma Lingers.
The number of cases of coronavirus in China has crossed 1 lakh, authorities said on Tuesday. China has reported more than 6 lakh cases of the virus, of which about 3 lakh cases are “very mild”, the National Health Commission (NHC) said. The death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose to six after a…
-
Why is the A surging and how are scientists worried?
The total number of coronavirus cases in the US has increased to over 8.2 lakh, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Further, the death toll has crossed 2,00,000, while over 1.5 crore people have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The virus has been responsible for over half of…
-
China could see nearly a million deaths as it leaves zero-covid, says the study.
Chinese authorities have repeatedly insisted that the COVID-19 battle against the virus remains “winnable”. In a state media interview, a doctor said that people who tested positive for COVID-19 but had no or mild symptoms shouldn’t need to take medication to recover. Health workers in the capital were also grappling with a surge in emergency…
-
The health reader is reviewed: Accurate and expensive.
Cue Health’s Cue Reader at-home coronavirus test has an accuracy rate of 97.8%, according to an independent study. Cue’s at-home test, which can detect a virus’ genetic material, also demonstrated 99.4% accuracy compared to lab-based PCR tests, the study said. Cue’s at-home molecular test also demonstrated 97.8% accuracy compared to single-use Lucira at-home molecular test.
-
The ‘tripledemic’ causes demand for children’s meds to be limited by drugstores.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has urged parents “not to panic” if they are unable to find fever-reducing medicines for children, amid rising COVID-19 cases. “Fevers from common respiratory viruses in and of themselves aren’t harmful,” AAP said. “These medicines are not curative. They’re essentially purely for comfort,” it added.
-
It doesn’t mean what it used to mean in China.
China’s COVID-19 expert Zhong Jianhua has said that the disease was spreading rapidly in the country. Zhong said that the government’s top priority now should be booster shots, particularly for the elderly and others most at risk, especially with China’s Lunar New Year coming up next month. Zhong had earlier said that the coronavirus was…
-
Britain is Miserable and Britons are fighting back.
Thousands of nurses on Thursday took part in the biggest nursing strike in the history of the UK’s National Health Service. The nurses are protesting against pay and working conditions and against the government’s decision to cut their pay by 10%. The UK’s Health Foundation said the pay of nurses has fallen for five years…