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Opinion: CDC estimated a one-year decline in life expectancy in 2020. Not so — try five days

25.02.2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made headlines last week when it announced that Covid-19 had reduced the average life expectancy of Americans in 2020 by a full year. …

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Coronavirus / Health

‘We need to get in the room’: Hospital chaplains struggle to balance Covid safety with patients’ spiritual needs

25.02.2021

Infection fears have never slowed down Rev. Moneka Thompson. For more than 10 years, she’s visited patients hospitalized at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with tuberculosis, chickenpox, and any …

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Health / Pharma

Challenging the link between statins and muscle pain, patients report no difference in aches when taking drug or placebo

25.02.2021

Statins — among the most successful drugs ever developed — prevent deaths from heart attacks and strokes but have long been dogged by the notion that they also cause muscle …

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Coronavirus / Health

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine performs as well in the real world as in clinical trials, new study concludes

25.02.2021

Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine performed as well in the real world as it did in the clinical trial that led to its use, a large study conducted in Israel …

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Coronavirus / Health

Moderna ready to test version of Covid-19 vaccine aimed at worrisome variant

25.02.2021

Moderna is pressing forward with a modified version of its Covid-19 vaccine meant to protect against an emerging strain of the virus, the company said Wednesday, planning to start a …

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Coronavirus / Health

FDA scientists endorse J&J’s Covid vaccine, as new data shed light on efficacy

24.02.2021

Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that the single-shot Covid-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson is effective and prevents hospitalizations from the disease. Johnson & Johnson …

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Coronavirus / Health / Health Tech

Backed by Google, epidemiologists launch a sweeping Covid-19 data platform

24.02.2021

Last January, Samuel Scarpino wasn’t sure what to make of Covid-19. The director of Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab, he, along with every other epidemiologist in the world, was trying …

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Coronavirus / Health

Schools may see a burst of the common cold when they reopen, research suggests

23.02.2021

A curious thing happened when Hong Kong reopened schools after closing them because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It bears watching here. Hong Kong closed its schools to in-person learning from …

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Coronavirus / Health / Pharma

‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer plays hardball in Covid-19 vaccine negotiations with Latin American countries

23.02.2021

Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments during negotiations to acquire its Covid-19 vaccine, and the company has asked some countries to put up sovereign assets, such as …

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