Health Care Workers Still Face Daunting Shortages of Masks and Other P.P.E. Frontline medical personnel in hospitals and nursing homes are urging the incoming Biden administration to use the Defense Production Act to increase manufacturing of personal protective equipment. As Americans celebrate the rollout of a coronavirus vaccine, many of the doctors and nurses first…

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Can Travel Bans Really Stop the Spread of Coronavirus Variants? Experts Are Skeptical It isn’t clear how widely the new variants are already circulating. So the latest moves by countries to bar international travelers may once again be too little, too late. LONDON — As nation after nation rushed this week to close their borders…

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Trial of High-Dose Blood Thinners in I.C.U. Coronavirus Patients Is Halted Giving anticoagulants to hospitalized Covid-19 patients is routine. But high doses may sometimes do more harm than good, a safety board finds. A major trial of high-dose blood thinners in critically ill hospitalized Covid-19 patients is being temporarily halted because there appears to be…

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What to Know About the Covid Antibody Drugs That Could Help Many Here’s information about who these therapies can help, how much they cost and how to find out if you can get them where you live. Two new antibody treatments have shown promise in keeping high-risk Covid-19 patients out of the hospital. But despite…

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Pfizer Seals Deal With U.S. for 100 Million More Vaccine Doses The company agreed to deliver the additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine by the end of July, helping address a looming shortage. The Trump administration and Pfizer announced a deal on Wednesday for the pharmaceutical company to provide an additional 100 million doses of…

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How the Sinovac Vaccine Works The private Chinese company Sinovac developed a coronavirus vaccine called CoronaVac. The government of Turkey announced that a trial there showed the vaccine has an efficacy of 91.25%. But Sinovac has yet to share the full details of its research. A Vaccine Made From Coronaviruses CoronaVac works by teaching the…

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US Will Require a Negative Coronavirus Test from UK Travelers The new rule, which takes effect on Monday, will apply to Americans as well as foreign nationals. The United States will require all airline passengers arriving from Britain to test negative for the coronavirus within 72 hours of their departure, the Centers for Disease Control…

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How to Manage Your New-Year Expectations A ‘Happy New Feels-The-Same Year’ isn’t too exciting a prospect. Here’s how to emotionally prepare yourself for the excitement lag. Ah, New Year’s Eve is fast approaching, and it’s finally time to leave the wreckage of 2020 behind. Except for many people, it seems as if not much will…

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The Secret to Longevity? 4-Minute Bursts of Intense Exercise May Help Including high-intensity training in your workouts provided better protection against premature death than moderate workouts alone. If you increase your heart rate, will your life span follow? That possibility is at the heart of an ambitious new study of exercise and mortality. The study,…

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Covid Antibody Drugs Go Unused as Need Soars While such treatments are promising, their use has been slowed by testing lags, overwhelmed hospitals and a perception the therapies are only for well-connected people. When federal regulators approved two antibody treatments last month for emergency use in high-risk Covid-19 patients, doctors worried there would not be…

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