WESH, WINTER GARDEN, Fla. —At West Side Crematory in Winter Garden, they're overwhelmed with the remains of people that need to be cremated.
There's an influx of bodies like they've never seen, worse than the first wave of COVID-19.
The area where bodies are stored prior to being cremated is stacked to the ceiling. The staff is working day and night to honor the dead.
WESH 2 called 20 funeral homes and crematories and many were...
WebMD – Fully vaccinated people still face considerable risks for contracting COVID-19, according to a new study published Wednesday by Imperial College London.
At the same time, they were three times less likely to test positive for the coronavirus than unvaccinated people.
Paul Elliott, director of the survey program and a professor at Imperial’s School of Public Health, said in a statement:
“These findings confirm our previous data showing that both doses of a vaccine offer good...
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICINE – A CDC report shows that only 23% of pregnant women in the United States had been vaccinated by the end of July. The percentage is even lower among Black and Latina women.
1. Pregnant women's vaccine reactions are pretty similar to everyone else's ... not much.
A survey of more than 17,000 pregnant and lactating individuals who received the COVID-19 vaccine showed that the individuals did not experience symptoms any more...
KTLA5, LOS ANGELES – While cases of the delta variant surged in Los Angeles County this summer, unvaccinated residents were fives times more likely to get infected and 29 times more likely to get hospitalized with COVID-19 than those who had already been inoculated
The findings were reported in a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The population-based analysis concluded that fully vaccinated people over the age of 16 who were infected...
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Their movement started discreetly, just a handful of people communicating on encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal. But in just days it had ballooned tenfold.
And within two weeks, it had turned into a full-blown public protest, with people waving picket signs to denounce efforts to push them to receive coronavirus vaccines.
But these were not just any vaccine resisters. They were nurses, medical technicians, infection control officers and other...
United States federal health officials have a new task — figuring out if the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine leads to more uncommon side effects, like the heart condition myocarditis.
Whether it’s at a pharmacy, urgent care center, or testing site, it’s now easier than ever to get a COVID-19 test. You can even buy a kit online or at a drugstore to test yourself—and get results—in your own home.
Researchers found that, compared with those receiving usual care, participants using inhaled budesonide recovered an estimated 2.94 days sooner, had a greater sense of wellbeing while recovering and often remained well once recovered.
WKMG ClickOrlando, ORLANDO, Fla. – As COVID-19 vaccine providers across the U.S. start rolling out booster shots, there’s concern about how the third dose could impact individuals and the side effects they could face.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people who are immunocompromised consider getting a third shot. A more detailed list of who that entails can be found here.
“So far today, only 3% of the population can get the vaccine,” said...
In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, Dr. Yomaris Pena, Internal Medicine Physician with Somos Community Care at a COVID-19 extracts the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine out of a vial at a vaccination site at the Corsi Houses in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York. U.S. health regulators have authorized extra doses of the COVID-19 vaccines in people with weakened immune systems to better protect them from the virus. The announcement Thursday, Aug. 12. by the Food and Drug Administration applies to millions of Americans who take immune-suppressing medicines because of organ transplants, cancer or other disorders. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP
City Journal – “Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS!”
So tweeted then–surgeon general Jerome Adams on February 29, 2020, adding, “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.”
Two days later, Adams said, “Folks who don’t know how to wear them properly tend to touch their faces a lot and actually can increase the spread of coronavirus.”
Less than a week earlier, on February 25, public-health authorities in the United Kingdom had published...