These days, Lipi Roy spends her free hours helping people with substance-abuse issues get vaccinated. “It’s the right thing to do,” the doctor and NYU assistant professor told The Post. In New York, only 6% of the population is fully inoculated, per worldwide COVID-19 vaccination database GlobalEpidemics.org. Complex online scheduling platforms, language barriers and inequitable… Read More »
The variety and volume of bacteria in the gut, known as the microbiome, may influence the severity of COVID-19 as well as the magnitude of the immune system response to the infection. A new scientific survey suggests that it may be possible to avoid severe Covid-19 symptoms by maximising your gut health. Research from the… Read More »
Moderna on Wednesday announced that the COVID-19 vaccine it recently developed to address a concerning new coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa is ready to be tested in humans in clinical trials. Moderna in a news release said that it has shipped the first batch of doses of the new jab to the National… Read More »
Milwaukee oncologist Michael Thompson, MD, wrote to me yesterday morning (February 10) about an article – “New Study Suggests Apple Watch Heart Rate Sensor Can Predict COVID-19 Up to a Week Before a Swab Test” – promoted on Twitter by MacRumors.com. The story was about the so-called Warrior Watch Study at Mount Sinai Medical Center in… Read More »
Victoria has recorded no new local coronavirus cases as thousands of people turned out to get tested after another hotel quarantine worker tested positive. The health department said 12,816 Victorians were swabbed at testing stations across the state on Monday, with no locally acquired cases reported in the past 24 hours. The health department also… Read More »
Mr Morrison and Secretary of the Department of Health Professor Brendan Murphy appeared live on news.com.au’s Facebook page this evening to talk about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. The chat was conducted by news.com.au’s national political editor Samantha Maiden, who asked Mr Morrison and Mr Murphy about our readers’ biggest concerns and queries regarding the vaccine. Mr… Read More »