by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 11, 2020 | Health News
“You can certainly get both the flu and Covid-19 at the same time, which could be catastrophic to your immune system,” said Dr. Adrian Burrowes, a family medicine physician in Florida. In fact, getting infected with one can make you more vulnerable to getting sick with the other, epidemiologist Dr. Seema Yasmin said. “Once you […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 11, 2020 | Health News
“We need to hunker down and get through this fall and winter because it’s not going to be easy,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday. The warning isn’t new: experts — including the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 11, 2020 | Health News
Calling a radiology department to follow up on her doctor’s order to get an emergency angiogram in May, she started sobbing when the receptionist said she could not schedule the procedure until she tested negative for Covid. “I broke down in tears and...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 11, 2020 | Health News
“In addition to dining at a restaurant, case-patients were more likely to report going to a bar/coffee shop, but only when the analysis was restricted to participants without close contact with persons with known COVID-19 before illness onset,” the...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 11, 2020 | Health News
The report, released Wednesday, uses retail scanner data. It showed a 122% increase in e-cigarette sales from September 2014 to May 2020 and a 294% increase from November 2016 to August 2019. The Trump administration in February enacted a “flavor ban,”...