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The remaining 33 percent of unvaccianted, eligible, Americans are more likely to be young, male, black and living in a rural area, according an analysis by DailyMail.com. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3llHTFU

A new CDC report on Friday that fully vaccinated Americans can contract the Indian 'Delta' Covid variant more easily but are at a very low risk of severe disease, hospitalization or death. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3rKgEq3

West Virginian nursing home residents will be recruited as a part of a study to find whantibody levels are still at acceptable levels months after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ibM2KP

The Delta COVID-19 variant now accounts for over 70 percent of active cases in both New York City and New York state, as it continues its sweep across the nation. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3yinEww

Kristen Hutton, from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, caught COVID-19 a week before her due date. She had refused the vaccine because she was worried it would hurt her baby. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BY0cHj

It's possible to have long-term COVID-19 symptoms after vaccination, a new Israeli study finds. About 19% of those workers with breakthrough infections had symptoms lasting at least six weeks. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3rGxxBS

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Britain's daily covid cases fell again today for the ninth day in a row to 29,622, an 18.6 per cent drop on last week, amid mounting confusion over true state of the third wave. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3zU31HI

British experts called into question the claims made by the department, saying that if this was the case then Covid infections in the UK would not have dipped. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3xeLLLh

New guidance after 'Freedom Day' told employers to consider placing screens and barriers between workers to Covid transmission, but a SAGE paper says they do not always help. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2VnxFtH

Lewis Hughes, 24, admitted the attack which took place in St James's Park last month and was handed a suspended sentence. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ykZaTG

Official figures, published for the first time last night, show just 3,855 of the 5,021 of people in hospital with Covid in England on Tuesday went into hospital because they were unwell from the virus. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BXK5JJ

Fitness First says that Covid ruined many people's exercise regimes, with nearly half (45 per cent) of those polled saying they are still stuck in 'fitness doldrums'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3zSRQio

The rate of people in England infected with Covid avoiding naming close contacts has risen consistently since the third wave took off in June, from 14.1 to 23.1 per cent in the most recent week. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fefUnP

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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab openly admitted France was added to amber-plus list because of the prevalence of the strain 'in the Reunion bit of France' - which is an island in the Indian Ocean. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3l6eEqJ

Airlines reported staggering booking surges while hotels in London also saw increased interest following yesterday's announcement. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3f8GzCp

The promising drop in infections was revealed in Public Health England's weekly report, which also claimed cases were down in all age groups except the over-80s. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3x9NelZ

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England's deputy chief medical officer today rejected the claim that the pandemic is 'all over bar the shouting'. He said the country was likely in for some bumpy months ahead. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3j0Y7BH

EXCLUSIVE: More than 70,000 people flew into England from Spain over the first three weeks of July and 2,065 of them tested positive - a higher number than any other country, at a rate of 2.9%. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3x9Y3ED

Most people in their mid-20s and below were not invited for their first vaccine dose until mid-June, which means they will not receive a second jab until the end of August at the earliest. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BSCzji

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NHS figures show nearly 690,000 alerts were given out by the app last week, the highest number since it was introduced. 536,000 people were reached by call handlers, while 308,000 tested positive. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3f95q9l

Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is just as likely to trigger blood clots as AstraZeneca's, according to a study in Spain that has prompted fury among UK Government officials. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3zPoTni

Office for National Statistics data released today shows adherence to isolation rules in 18- to 34-year-olds who had tested positive for Covid were consistently dropping for three months up to July. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3i9zpzK

King's College London experts estimated just over 60,000 people were catching the virus every day in the week to July 24, the latest available. This was up slightly on the previous seven-day spell. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3yeGWmq

Professor Ferguson, from Imperial College, had predicted that the third wave could lead to a huge surge in infections, with up to 100,000 new cases a day by next month. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ibXhTG

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An epidemiologist told ABC News the new vaccine-or-test rule may actually boost rates higher than vaccine lotteries did because it 'says the government supports vaccination.' from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BPwPqD

William Thomas Ball, 51, has been hospitalized with COVID-19 in Jackson, Mississippi after refusing to get vaccinated. Now his wife, Alicia, is asking for others in her community to get the shots. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3f7c8wp

Long COVID-19 patients with brain fog, memory issues, and other neurological symptoms may be at higher risk for Alzheimer's, according to new research from UT Health San Antonio. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BRDWi3

Patients with mental health disorders are at double the risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to those without a diagnosis, a new study from Marseille, France finds. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3xbh2yG

The highest increase in dementia prevalence is projected to be in eastern sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, report experts at the University of Washington in Seattle. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3iQ92OB

After a shorter night of sleep, employees had more self regulatory fatigue and engaged in higher levels of cyber incivility at work, according to researchers from A&M University in West Texas. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3iNyjca

Faced with a 12 to 18-month wait for a hip replacement on the NHS, housewife Barbara Price decided to do something she had never done before, she went private. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3i1J0bT

Amanda Pritchard - currently the health service's chief operating officer - will take over the reins next week, Boris Johnson is expected to announce today. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3iWzjL7

Sources said passengers will be able to take trips that start or end in ports outside the UK, including those sailing to Europe and North America. Industry leaders said it was 'very good news'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3x4XE6F

Brits who have previously been infected with the coronavirus are less likely to suffer symptoms if they catch it again, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3x5bfKZ

EXCLUSIVE: Professor Paul Hunter, of the University of East Anglia, said it was 'reasonable' to expect England could follow a similar timescale to Scotland's fall in admissions. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ynRErb

Figures show that 34 per cent of Britons aged 46 to 48 have two or more long-term conditions such as chronic back problems, mental ill-health, high blood pressure and diabetes. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3iNe0vi

EXCLUSIVE: Doctors at Nagoya City University Hospital revealed the man suffered a life-threatening stroke caused by a blood vessel in his brain rupturing when masturbating. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BI0Qsq

EXCLUSIVE: The findings, revealed in a Public Health England report last night, provide the first official look at how well the jab rollout is protecting the NHS amid the third wave. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/36YIRQ6

A 40,000-strong crowd began descending on the festival in Henham Park in Suffolk yesterday, which is running at full-capacity as part of a Government Covid safety scheme. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3kQ5iiO

Sixteen cases of a version of Covid variant that is thought to have originated in Colombia and contains 'mutations of concern' have been spotted in the UK, Public Health England revealed today. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3kKYeE0

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The Department of Health recorded another 23,511 infections across the UK over the past 24 hours, down by half on last Tuesday. This marks the biggest week-on-week fall in cases since last week. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2USAa7D

A three-fold increase in dementia cases worldwide will be driven by population growth and ageing, as well as factors like smoking and being overweight, Washington University researchers have found. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BQhOF8

Brendon Jones, from Manchester, had been hoping to get the jab but struggled to leave his home. The 33-year-old, who had agoraphobia from a past trauma, died from the virus this month. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3zEJqLb

Modelling released ahead of Freedom Day said it was realistic to expect six-figure cases in August and as many as 200,000 in a worst-case scenario. But there were just 29,000 across Britain yesterday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3eXVcZu

The Israeli-made 'MedMed Covid-19 Severity Test' will be available for both private and NHS hospitals. It was given a CE mark in Europe, which allows it to be sold in UK hospitals. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3rzlR3O

Leaked figures show 56 per cent of people classed as Covid patients in England last week tested positive in the days after admission. It suggests the virus was not the reason they went to hospital. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/375mWae

A survey of 5,000 adults by Public Health England found lockdowns led people to develop unhealthy habits like snacking and comfort eating, causing 41% of Brits to put on weight. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3zIv390

Experts said it was 'not surprising' Covid deaths had risen because infections had previously been surging upwards. Almost nine in ten adults have got at least one jab. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3i6myOT

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The life expectancy of white Britons in England and Wales was 83.1 years for women and 79.7 years for men, compared with 88.9 for black African women and 83.8 years for men. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3kZdbm6

Tory MP Tom Tugendhat railed against the scheme today saying it would turn Britain into a 'Beijing-style democracy'. Boris Johnson is considering the plan as a way to boost jab uptake in young Britons. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3y6d3ol

The Government and its scientific advisers had been expecting cases to rocket to at least 100,000 every day this autumn. But cases have started to decline in every corner of England already. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BGQMQ9

Kate Shemirani also ran a clinic injecting clients with Botox and claims to have beaten breast cancer with coffee enemas and injecting her stomach with mistletoe. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3zFOcrN

The most recent clip showed Georgia-Rose Segal, a 34-year-old from London, nearly collapsing on her kitchen floor after her second Pfizer jab. It was seized on by anti-vaxxers. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BLGeQ6

The British Medical Association - the UK's biggest trade union for doctors - has asked if medics want to strike over the 'bitterly disappointing' pay bump offered by the Government. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3kUuXqn

Vicky Ford, the UK minister for children and families, was repeatedly asked about the policy this morning. Boris Johnson is said to be 'raging' about vaccine uptake in younger age groups. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3BGLeFC

Dr Mike Tildesley, an infectious disease modeller at the University of Warwick, said he was 'cautiously optimistic' about Britain's declining infections. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2WmFlx2

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