Harry Wilmerding Novavax announced on Monday that its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective, according to a press release on Novavax’s website. The phase-3 trial enrolled 29,960 participants ages 18 and older in the U.S. and Mexico. The study found that 77 of the participants…
Read More Study Finds Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine 90% Effective
Suicide-related emergency room visits among both adolescent girls and boys spiked amid the pandemic and continued to surge as lockdowns persisted, according to a government health report. Emergency room (ER) mental health visits increased 31% among children aged 12-17 years old in 2020 compared to the previous…
Read More Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents Skyrocketed During The Pandemic, CDC Report Shows
Ailan Evans The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will discuss reports of a rare heart inflammation following doses of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines in an emergency meeting, it announced Thursday. The emergency meeting, set to take place on June 18, will include updates on mRNA COVID-19…
Read More Rare Heart Inflammation Following COVID-19 Vaccination Sparks Emergency CDC Meeting
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. – Citrus County’s only Special Needs Shelter, which houses individuals with special and minimal medical needs during a severe weather emergency, is temporarily relocating to the Renaissance Center, located at 3630 W. Educational Path in Lecanto, effective immediately. Moving the Special Needs…
Read More Citrus County Special Needs Shelter Temporarily Relocating
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) occurs when you repeat a task so often that it actually harms your body, usually resulting in soreness, stiffness, and musculoskeletal injuries. The issue was first highlighted in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the use of computers became more…
Read More RSI Still Common Today, Even Among Smartphone Users
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – The Florida Department of Health in Pasco County (DOH-Pasco) is partnering with Pasco County Schools and Health Heroes to provide free COVID-19 vaccinations to Pasco County children age 12 and older. Free vaccinations will also be made available to children’s eligible…
Read More DOH-Pasco Working With Pasco Schools To Vaccinate Children 12 And Up
BRANDON, Fla. – Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is an FDA-approved treatment to reduce depression symptoms with very little risk of side effects; the treatment has shown a 60% response rate for adults 18 and over who have been diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression Brandon TMS and…
Read More Brandon TMS Aims To Battle Depression Using Magnetic StimulationPASCO COUNTY, Fla. – The seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate is at 3.8 percent in Pasco County as of Tuesday, June 1. This is the lowest the rolling positivity rate has been since October 2020. The Florida Department of Health in Pasco County (DOH-Pasco) continues to…
Read More Pasco County COVID-19 Positivity Rate Drops Below 4%, Over 236,000 Vaccinated
Andrew Trunsky A 41-year-old man in the Chinese province of Jiangsu is the first human to have contracted the H10N3 strain of bird flu, the country’s National Health Commission said Tuesday. The man was hospitalized with the disease in late April after showing symptoms and…
Read More China Reports First Human Case Of Bird Flu Strain
It’s been a rough couple of days for the COVID fearmongers. For one thing, a University of Louisville study torpedoed the idea that mask mandates work. “We hypothesized that statewide mask mandates and mask use are associated with lower COVID-19 case growth rates in the…
Read More Increasingly, Research Into COVID-19 Reveals That Much Of What We Thought Was Wrong – Even As People Don’t Want To Let Go