November 8, 2021, 8:01am Health Free
While much research is being conducted around immunity, it’s still unclear just how long a person is immune from the virus after testing positive for COVID-19. Read story
November 8, 2021, 7:57am Health Free
Your risk of testing positive for COVID-19 or being hospitalized with the virus is still much higher without vaccination, updated data from the Department of Health show. Read story
November 8, 2021, 6:00am Health
Antiperspirant and deodorant body sprays have been found to contain elevated levels of the carcinogen benzene and should be recalled, an independent testing lab said in a petition filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration late Wednesday. Read story
November 7, 2021, 9:44am Health
There were days, nights and weekends in the early months of the pandemic when Denise Von Bargen was the only person running COVID-19 tests at the public health lab in Ventura County, California. She once had eight or nine employees to assist her, but, one by one, they had all… Read story
November 7, 2021, 6:36am Health
Even as the U.S. rolls out a COVID-19 vaccine to elementary school-aged kids, its efforts to inoculate teenagers — who have been eligible for the shot since May — continue to meet with a lackluster response. Read story
November 7, 2021, 6:05am Health
More than 300 days ago Dr. Thuan Ong got the COVID-19 vaccine. The moment remains a vivid memory. Read story
November 7, 2021, 6:02am Health
When Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong stopped by an Orange County vaccination site in late October, she asked people why they had waited so long to get their COVID-19 shots. Read story
November 7, 2021, 6:00am Business
Melissa Lee had more to deal with than funeral planning when her husband, Dan Williams, died by suicide in January. She also was faced with continuing his 1,400-member Facebook group, “Athens, GA Mask Grades 2.0,” designed to help residents of Athens protect themselves from COVID-19 by grading local businesses on… Read story
November 7, 2021, 6:00am Health
The politicization of COVID-19 vaccines — and, well, just about everything else having to do with the pandemic — has led to confusion, if not utter fatigue. Read story
November 7, 2021, 6:00am Health
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration quashed plans for a public service campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccinations for eligible teenagers over the summer, a former state health official said. That has led public health and medical experts to plan their own ad campaigns, in anticipation of the administration not publicly backing… Read story
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