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Are you worried about your hormones during pregnancy and navigating them through early postpartum? I have great news Mama: There is so much you can for your hormones during pregnancy, while you’re preparing for pregnancy, or if you’ve already had a baby! Because you can always work towards bettering your health and creating healthy lifestyle habits. Today’s Core Connections podcast episode…
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For months, states warned that additional funding would be needed to distribute a coronavirus vaccine. Last week, they finally got their wish. The Department of Health and Human Services said it would push out $ 3 billion to states for vaccine distribution, and another $ 19 billion for testing before January 19. Both were sorely […]
The number of mobile Covid-19 testing units in the UK will more than double over coming weeks, with the military earmarked to staff many facilities. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said 1,763 personnel will support the 236 units. There were 96 units in April. “Testing is at the heart of the strategy for beating coronavirus”, […]
Dr. Tom Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the recent surge in coronavirus cases across parts of the country is the result of the virus’s spreading, not increased testing, as President Donald Trump has argued. “As a doctor, a scientist, an epidemiologist, I can tell you with 100% […]
President Donald Trump would not directly respond when pressed about his comment at his Saturday rally that he had ordered staff to “slow the testing down” for coronavirus. During an interview on Monday, Joe St. George, a Scripps reporter, asked Trump about his remarks at the rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, about slowing testing. Specifically, the president said: “When […]
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro insisted on CNN Sunday that President Donald Trump used “tongue-in-cheek” humor when he said he ordered officials to slow coronavirus testing to suppress the number of reported COVID-19 cases. “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find … more cases,” Trump said at his campaign rally in […]
A mobile coronavirus testing site has been set up in Leicester city centre following a surge in cases. Leicester mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said the facility, in Spinney Hill Park, would be open for at least five days. It emerged on Thursday that about 25% of the city’s 2,494 confirmed Covid-19 cases had been reported […]
A doctor involved in a U.S. coronavirus vaccine study said he is hopeful but not convinced that an injection will be available for circulation this year. Dr. Carlos del Rio, an Emory University professor of medicine, told CNBC on Friday that a Covid-19 vaccine could be ready in some form for distribution by the end […]
Clinics in rural areas of the country will receive more than $ 200 million in order to increase access to testing for Covid-19, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday. The department said it was providing $ 225 million through the Health Resources and Services Administration to more than 4,500 rural health clinics […]
Boston University said Thursday that it plans to have its own coronavirus testing program this fall for students, faculty and staff as part of a larger strategy to hold in-person classes on campus. “We’ve spent a lot of time on trying to decide and develop testing capability within the university,” Boston University President Robert Brown […]
The government’s ability to test people for coronavirus has been “inadequate” throughout the pandemic, a committee of MPs has said. The Science and Technology Committee said capacity had not been increased “early or boldly enough”. It said a lack of capacity had driven initial decisions in mid-March to scale back contact tracing and largely restrict […]
Pete Navarro, President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser, knocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday over its response to the coronavirus crisis, blaming the federal public health agency for the country’s slow rollout of tests. Asked during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether Trump has confidence in the CDC to […]
White House Trade and Manufacturing Policy Director Peter Navarro speaks during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House on March 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “let the country down” early in the nation’s response […]
The U.S. may have flattened the curve of coronavirus cases through shelter-in-place orders, but the country’s public health response still must improve to limit future spread of the disease, according to Dr. Craig Spencer of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. “The problem is that right now, as soon as we reopen, we don’t have what we […]
The government has admitted sending about 50,000 coronavirus tests to the US last week for processing after “operational issues” in UK labs. The Department of Health said sending swabs abroad is among the contingencies to deal with “teething problems”. The samples were airlifted to the US in chartered flights from Stansted Airport, the Sunday Telegraph […]