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COVID-19: Lockdowns, Anxiety During Pandemic May Have Aged Your Brain, Study Reveals COVID-19: Lockdowns, Anxiety During Pandemic May Have Aged Your Brain, Study Reveals
Covid-19: Lockdowns, Anxiety During Pandemic May Have Aged Your Brain, Study Reveals New research reveals that simply living through the COVID-19 pandemic — regardless of infection — has measurably aged our brains, with the effect most pronounced in men and those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The findings were part of major new study published Tuesday, July 22 in Nature Communications.  Even people who never caught the virus showed signs of accelerated brain aging, highlighting the pandemic’s far-reaching impact on public health, according to the findings. Researchers from the UK Biobank project analyzed brain scans from nearly 1,000 healthy adults, comparing t…
American YouTuber Jailed After Trying To Gift Diet Coke To World's 'Most Isolated' Tribe American YouTuber Jailed After Trying To Gift Diet Coke To World's 'Most Isolated' Tribe
American YouTuber Jailed After Trying To Gift Diet Coke To World's 'Most Isolated' Tribe An American YouTuber is in an Indian jail after authorities said he allegedly tried to reach a forbidden island inhabited by an isolated and violent tribe of people to give them a Diet Coke, according to an ABC News report. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, a 24-year-old from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested on Monday, March 31, and charged with attempting to access North Sentinel Island, the report said. The Sentinelese people are considered the "most isolated Indigenous people on Earth," according to Survival International. They speak an unknown language and have been known to be hostile to…
Fully Vaxxed, Boosted President Biden Gets COVID-19 Again Fully Vaxxed, Boosted President Biden Gets COVID-19 Again
Fully Vaxxed, Boosted President Biden Gets Covid-19 Again Despite being fully vaccinated and boosted, President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 — again, White House officials announced on Wednesday, July 17. The 81-year-old Biden has tested positive for COVID while in Las Vegas, Nevada ahead of the DNC, officials with the White House explained. His symptoms are mild. His doctor noted that he presented with upper respiratory symptoms, such as a runny nose, a non-productive cough, and "general malaise," as stated in the release.  Since his condition did not improve throughout the day, a COVID test was conducted on Wednesda…
COVID-19: Those Who Test Positive After Recovering Are Not Contagious, Study Says COVID-19: Those Who Test Positive After Recovering Are Not Contagious, Study Says
Covid-19: Those Who Test Positive After Recovering Are Not Contagious, Study Says A new study found that people who recovered from COVID-19 after testing positive did not transmit the virus to others in close proximity. Researchers evaluated more than 3,500 NBA players and staff who were in a “bubble” for last season’s playoff run to evaluate who contracted COVID-19, recovered, and were contagious. In total, researchers studied the data of 3,648 players, staff, and vendors who were forced to undergo daily COVID-19 testing between June 11, and Oct. 19 last year. During the 2020 NBA playoffs, the league created an isolation zone at Walt Disney World in Florida that was l…
COVID-19: Cats, Dogs, Caviar, Here Are Odd Shortages Caused By The Pandemic COVID-19: Cats, Dogs, Caviar, Here Are Odd Shortages Caused By The Pandemic
Covid-19: Cats, Dogs, Caviar, Here Are Odd Shortages Caused By The Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic turmoil are leading to supply shortages in places you might not have considered. Among purchasables in short-supply are cats and dogs up for adoption to baking yeast, jigsaw puzzles, and truffles among other things. When COVID-19 closed much of the economy in March 2020, items that include toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning supplies, coins, meat, and flour were among the first pandemic-related shortages Americans experienced. Most of those shortages have been addressed by manufacturers and supply chains. But as the U.S. comes up on one year…
COVID-19: Fully Vaccinated NY Woman Gets Prescription To Hug Granddaughter COVID-19: Fully Vaccinated NY Woman Gets Prescription To Hug Granddaughter
Covid-19: Fully Vaccinated NY Woman Gets Prescription To Hug Granddaughter A New York grandmother got just the prescription she needed when her doctor wrote to "hug your granddaughter" after receiving her second COVID-19 vaccine shot. Evelyn Shaw’s granddaughter arranged the whole thing with her grandmother's doctor and had him seal the prescription in an envelope for her to open later. As you can imagine, the hug -- Shaw's first in a year because she lives alone and has been isolated since the beginning of the pandemic with just a visit outside her window -- was just what the doctor ordered. The hug.Jessica Shaw/Twitter Shaw, who said she was "stuck in COVID…
COVID-19: More Than 380,000 MA Residents Have Isolated/Quarantined Since May COVID-19: More Than 380,000 MA Residents Have Isolated/Quarantined Since May
Covid-19: More Than 380,000 MA Residents Have Isolated/Quarantined Since May More than 380,000 people in Massachusetts have gone into - or are still in - quarantine or isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s more than 5 percent of all Massachusetts residents. Since May, concern about spreading COVID-19 has caused 387,769 individual quarantines or isolations among Massachusetts residents, according to the state’s Dec. 9 COVID-19 daily dashboard, the most recent information available. Quarantine is for people who may have been exposed to COVID-19. Isolation is for individuals who are sure they have COVID-19. Either way, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control u…