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COVID restrictions across Sydney to lift

Coronavirus-related restrictions across Greater Sydney will ease from Monday, with NSW again recording zero new locally-acquired virus cases. The zero new local cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday came from more than 12,200 tests, while three new cases were uncovered in hotel quarantine. As a result, NSW Health said in a statement… Read More: COVID restrictions across Sydney to lift »

Feds Lift Pause of J&J COVID Vaccine, Add New Warning

This story was updated at 8:35  p.m.  April 23, 2021 — Use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine should resume in the United States for all adults, the FDA and CDC said Friday, although health care providers should warn patients of the risk of developing the rare and serious blood clots that caused the… Read More: Feds Lift Pause of J&J COVID Vaccine, Add New Warning »

With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’

A commentary last summer in the NEJM Catalyst │Innovations in Care Delivery by Thomas B. Sequist, professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School, took a broader look at COVID rates in the Navajo Nation, which has high rates of poverty (43 percent) and a population of 180,000 people across New Mexico,… Read More: With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the… »

ADVERTORIAL: ‘I turned to Manchester United’ – dad’s trick to get kids on board with regular Covid tests

The government’s roadmap out of lockdown is going to plan, and the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines are proving a success, but that doesn’t meant we are out of the woods yet. Around one in three people who have Covid-19 have no symptoms and could be spreading it without knowing, so it is still vital… Read More: ADVERTORIAL: ‘I turned to Manchester United’ – dad’s trick to… »