President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., refused to directly answer when asked during an interview with Scripps News on Monday what message he had for CDC employees who are worried about the culture of misinformation and skepticism around vaccines. READ MORE: Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines, authorities say Although law enforcement officials have made …
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China has recorded 10,000 cases in an outbreak of a virus that is thought to be the largest of its kind on record in the country. The chikungunya virus is spread via mosquito bites, and symptoms can include fever, joint pain, headache, muscle pain, joint swelling and rash. Similar to dengue fever, the young and older people, as well as …
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The Stitch Fix logo on a smartphone arranged in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S., on Saturday, June 5, 2021. Stitch Fix Inc. is scheduled to release earning on June 7. Tiffany Hagler-Geard/ | Bloomberg | Getty Images Could Stitch Fix be on the path to a comeback? The clothing subscription service, one of the many pandemic winners that’s struggled to find …
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There’s been a striking rise in disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI), including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia, since the COVID-19 pandemic, new survey data from the UK and the US showed. “Healthcare providers should recognize post-COVID DGBI as part of the long COVID spectrum. These post-COVID gut problems appear more severe and require more medical care than similar …
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By almost any measure, living through a once-in-a-century pandemic emergency that killed 7 million people — including 1.1 million in the U.S. alone — was a harrowing experience. Now, there’s new evidence suggesting our brains bear the scars of that ordeal. Living through the pandemic aged our brains faster — even among people who never became sick with COVID-19, according …
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In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins of COVID. The report concluded that although we don’t know conclusively where the virus that caused the pandemic came from: a zoonotic origin with spillover from animals to …
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More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and uncertainty that the pandemic caused. A new scientific study, published this month in Nature Communications, has revealed that the pandemic may have accelerated brain aging in people even …
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The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic may have left a significant mark on our brains, even if we didn’t get sick. Fatal cases of COVID-19 look scarily like old age in the brain, and now, new research suggests that the mental, social, and financial stresses of the pandemic may have aged our brains as well. A team led by researchers …
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A longitudinal study of nearly 996 healthy adults found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated ageing of their brains. The resulting paper, “Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic,” appeared in the Journal Nature Communications on Tuesday The paper explains that the UK’s Biobank contains longitudinal neuroimaging data describing the brains of over 15,000 Brits, and that scientists have used machine …
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