Rates of autism continue to increase in the U.S., with the latest estimates showing that 1 in 30, or 3.49%, of children ages 3 to 17 were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in 2020.1The data, gathered in 2019 and 2020, came from the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and revealed that out of… Read More »
A Harvard infectious diseases expert says that vaccination rates among the elderly need to be close to 100 percent if another surge of COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths is to be avoided this winter. Stephen Kissler, a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said the strongest factor in COVID severity is… Read More »
Loading the player… South Africa’s resurgence of COVID-19 is setting record numbers of new daily cases, centered in Johannesburg and driven by the delta variant, health officials said Sunday. More than 26,000 new cases were reported on Saturday, up from 24,000 the previous day, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, surpassing the highest number… Read More »
LUCKNOW, India — Two months ago Radha Gobindo Pramanik and his wife threw a party to celebrate their daughter’s pregnancy and the upcoming birth of their long-awaited grandchild. They were so happy that they paid little attention to his wife’s cough. It’s an oversight that may forever haunt him. Within days, his wife, his daughter… Read More »
The idea of having booster jabs isn’t a new one. We have (or should have) boosters of flu vaccine every year and anyone who travels abroad would be well-advised to have a tetanus booster every five years. So the idea of a booster for Covid-19 shouldn’t surprise us. After all, it’s a virus like the… Read More »