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Pfizer says 3 COVID shots protect children under 5 | Health and Fitness
By LAURAN NEERGAARD – AP Medical Writer Three doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday, another step toward shots for the littlest kids possibly beginning in early summer. Pfizer plans to submit the findings to U.S. regulators later this week. The Food and Drug Administration
Administration expands availability of COVID antiviral pill | Health and Fitness
By ZEKE MILLER – Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, as it seeks to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the virus. Paxlovid, produced by Pfizer, was
Medical spas see a boost in beauty procedures after Covid pandemic
Goddess Brouette, 22, decided to receive lip treatment at Upkeep Medical Spa in Manhattan during the pandemic. Source: Goddess Brouette Goddess Brouette didn’t want to wait much longer. It was time to get her lips filled. After months of research, she decided last year to get a treatment at Upkeep on the Upper East Side
Small breathing device could improve respiratory health and fitness levels of people with long COVID
New research presented at The Physiological Society’s Long COVID: Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Recovery on 22 – 23 February shows that a small handheld breathing device helped reduced breathlessness and improved physical fitness of people with long COVID. The low cost, home-based rehabilitation programme increased the strength of respiratory muscles speeding up the rate of
Germany keeps COVID restrictions as omicron infections soar | Health And Beauty
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany’s 16 state governors decided Monday to keep existing coronavirus restrictions in place and examine how best to use increasingly strained PCR test capacities as the highly contagious omicron variant fuels a steep rise in infections. Germany has hit a series of daily infection records over the past
Yale Medicine doctor weighs in as Connecticut’s daily COVID positivity rate hits new record high
Conn. (WTNH) — The state’s new COVID-19 infection rate record that was set on Tuesday was surpassed on Wednesday and again on Thursday, when Connecticut’s daily positivity rate rose above 20%. The positivity rate is one metric and it is an important one. Along with that, there is another factor health experts are keeping their
Record COVID case numbers reported in 2 Australia states | Health And Beauty
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s Victoria and Queensland states reported record levels of new daily coronavirus infections on Tuesday as pressure on testing centers prompted calls for wider use of rapid antigen tests. Queensland state reported 1,158 cases, the first time the state has seen more than 1,000 cases in a day, but hospitalizations remained low.
How accurate are at-home COVID tests? A Yale Medicine doctor explains
(WTNH) — The federal government is sending out 500-million at-home COVID-19 tests to Americans. But how accurate are these tests? How well do they work? RELATED: Biden to push vaccines, at-home COVID tests as Christmas nears The answer is, it depends on how you administer the test and how much of the virus you have
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