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Created: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:43:27 GMT
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A wedding in Maine is linked to 176 Covid-19 cases and the deaths of seven people who didn't attend the celebration, demonstrating just how easily and quickly the virus can spread at social gatherings, public health experts say.
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Read more: Tracking Covid-19 cases in the US
Created: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:35:36 GMT
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President Donald Trump knew back in the spring that it would probably take a year to develop a coronavirus vaccine, according to interviews with journalist Bob Woodward.
Read more: Trump knew testing Covid-19 vaccines would take months, Woodward book shows
Created: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:49:41 GMT
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More than half a million children in the United States have been diagnosed with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.
Read more: What you need to know about coronavirus today
Created: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:48:25 GMT
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Dealing with the first wave was like a sprint, the second will be more like a marathon.
Read more: ICUs are nearing capacity in this French city. And it's only September
Created: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 23:08:53 GMT
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Overcrowded parties have forced several high schools to go back to online learning in hopes of staving off Covid-19 outbreaks.
Created: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:44:04 GMT
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The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the National Institutes of Health has launched an investigation of the case.
Read more: NIH 'very concerned' about serious side effect in AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial
Created: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 02:28:09 GMT
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Children and teens from minority groups are disproportionately hit by coronavirus, just as older adults are, according to the findings of a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read more: CDC study finds coronavirus rarely kills children, but minorities at higher risk
Created: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:06:31 GMT
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Eli Lipman, 9, and his father have been battling the impact of Covid-19 since March, and he said life as a "long hauler" isn't easy.
Read more: A 9-year-old who's been battling coronavirus for 6 months says the illness is a big deal
Created: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:26:42 GMT
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Sibling rivalry is often taken as an unexamined fact of family life -- as much a part of parenting as potty training or bedtime stories.
Read more: How to help siblings get along better
Created: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 11:19:03 GMT
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Dr. Umair Shah remembers the last mass vaccination campaign the US waged.
Read more: Here's why a vaccine will not stop the Covid-19 pandemic right away
Created: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:30:43 GMT
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Many of us hope to escape who we were in high school -- particularly if you were last in line to be picked in gym class -- but a growing body of research suggests that how popular you are in adolescence has a link with psychological and physical health decades later.
Read more: Unpopular teens could be at higher risk of heart conditions later in life, study suggests
Created: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 11:27:02 GMT
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At first, Cameron Lynch thought she would need prepared questions for the group to discuss in their first Zoom call.
Created: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:58:39 GMT
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Travelers eager to fly again may want to consider Italy as their next destination.
Read more: Italian airport gets world's first five-star anti-Covid award
Created: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:18:07 GMT
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A mother's depression and anxiety from conception through the first year of the baby's life is associated with negative developmental outcomes through adolescence, according to a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
Created: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:36:50 GMT
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Like many moms, Sofia Axelrod found the lack of sleep really hard after giving birth. But unlike many moms, she refused to accept that the exhaustion was inevitable.
Read more: How to sleep better — kids and grown-ups alike
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Read more: We're in a She-cession
Created: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 01:20:56 GMT
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Nearly 30 US states are reporting downward trends in Covid-19 cases, but the pandemic will likely worsen again, according to the country's leading infectious disease expert.
Created: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:07:52 GMT
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When the pandemic hit, couples found themselves worrying about getting sick, losing income, teaching their children at home while working full time (or worrying full time about sending them to school).
Read more: Sex gets complicated during the pandemic
Created: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:26:44 GMT
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Cakes, cookies, pie.
Read more: Craving sugar during a pandemic? Here's how to tame your sweet tooth
Created: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:25:34 GMT
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Not sleeping enough or getting a bad night's sleep over and over makes it hard to control your appetite. And that sets you up for all sorts of health problems, including obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes.
Read more: Poor sleep linked to weight gain in 2-year smartphone sleep tracking study
Created: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 12:30:19 GMT
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With talk of the possible availability of a vaccine candidate heating up, you might have heard the term Emergency Use Authorization -- or EUA -- all over the news lately. But what is it exactly, and how does it apply to vaccines?
Created: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 01:53:31 GMT
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While many colleges and universities are offering classes online, that hasn't necessarily stopped students from gathering. And now some college towns are grappling with outbreaks of Covid-19 as the start of the fall semester complicates local responses to the pandemic.
Read more: Some college towns grapple with Covid-19 after students return for fall semester
Created: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 15:30:47 GMT
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The AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial, halted last week after an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers, will resume, the University of Oxford announced Saturday.
Read more: AstraZeneca's Oxford vaccine trial to resume, the university says
Created: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 05:55:21 GMT
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Primary school students in China experienced more depressive symptoms and made more suicide attempts after schools closed for the pandemic, a new study found.
Read more: Covid-19 school closings linked to increase in depression and suicide, study finds
Created: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:05:43 GMT
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Vaccine clinical trials are notoriously difficult to conduct.
Created: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:15:31 GMT
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Growing up with "Sesame Street" in the early 1980s, I found pieces of myself in Cookie Monster's sweet tooth, Big Bird's gentleness and in Grover, who was outgoing and always willing to help others, even though he made a lot of hilarious mistakes.
Read more: My lifelong Muppets obsession helped me explain the pandemic to my preschooler
Created: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:52:33 GMT
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After time off from exercising, it's understandable if you're having a hard time getting motivated. You may even feel a bit bad, but I'm here to say it's important to go easy on yourself.
Read more: How to reboot your workout routine: Let's set the foundation
Created: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:21:15 GMT
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Wildfires have broken out across the United States on an unprecedented scale, with 77 large complexes of fires engulfing 3 million acres in a matter of weeks.
Read more: Wildfire smoke and your health: Do you need to worry?
Created: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 21:43:19 GMT
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said it could be the end of 2021 before life gets back to how it was before Covid-19.
Read more: Fauci says normal life may not be back until the end of 2021