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The odds of a fatal heart attack increase during heatwaves especially amid air polution --study

Tue, 2023-07-25 16:47 — mike kraft

Extreme Temperature Events, Fine Particulate Matter, and Myocardial Infarction Mortality BACKGROUND: Extreme temperature events (ETEs), including heat wave and cold spell, have been linked to myocardial infarction (MI) morbidity; however, their effects on MI mortality are less clear. Alt Circulation

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Analysis: Warming Could Push the Atlantic Past a ‘Tipping Point’ This Century

Tue, 2023-07-25 16:35 — mike kraft

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ALSO SEE: Gulf stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests

The last time there was a major slowdown in the mighty network of ocean currents that shapes the climate around the North Atlantic, it seems to have plunged Europe into a deep cold for over a millennium.

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Climate change fingerprints are on the July heat waves in Europe, China and America --study

Tue, 2023-07-25 09:55 — mike kraft

Study finds climate change fingerprints on July heat waves in Europe, China and America Climate change’s sweaty fingerprints are all over the July heat waves gripping much of the globe. A new study finds these intense and deadly hot spells in the American Southwest and Southern Europe could not have occurred without it. AP News

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COVID-19 anti-vaccine politics could be linked to excess GOP deaths in Ohio, Florida-- study

Mon, 2023-07-24 19:19 — mike kraft

COVID-19 vaccine politics could be linked to excess GOP deaths in Ohio, Florida: study The politicization of COVID-19 vaccines may have led to a higher excess death rate among Republicans in Ohio and Florida during the coronavirus pandemic, a new study found. According to the study, … nweixel The Hill

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NY Times analysis: The Steep Cost of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ Vaccine Turnabout

Mon, 2023-07-24 10:34 — mike kraft

The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’ Vaccine Turnabout On a Saturday in September 2020, with COVID-19 killing more than 600 Americans daily and hundreds of thousands of deaths still to come, Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, heard her cellphone ring. It was Dr. Scott Rivkees, the Florida surgeon general. He was distraught. “‘You won’t believe what happened,’” she said he told her. Months before COVID vaccines would become available, Gov. Ron DeSantis had decided that the worst was over for Florida, he said. DeSant Yahoo News

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Misinformation issue: FDA tries to fight misinformation but sometimes stumbles

Mon, 2023-07-24 10:21 — mike kraft

FDA Head Robert Califf Battles Misinformation — Sometimes With Fuzzy Facts FDA Commissioner Robert Califf has called misinformation one of the deadliest killers in the United States. As the FDA tries to fight that scourge, it sometimes stumbles. khnerich KFF Health News

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Obstructive sleep apnea linked to severe COVID-19 --study

Fri, 2023-07-21 09:52 — mike kraft

Obstructive sleep apnea linked to severe COVID-19 A high risk of obstructive sleep apnea is associated with severe COVID-19 and longer hospitalization. CIDRAP

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Analysis: COVID pandemic is over in the U.S., indicated by excess-deaths data

Fri, 2023-07-21 09:44 — mike kraft

COVID pandemic is officially over in the U.S., excess-deaths data show The COVID-19 pandemic is definitively over, according to two recent reports focused on the same metric. Ciara Linnane MarketWatch

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U.S. program to bring internet access to low-income people is running out of money. Health care will suffer

Thu, 2023-07-20 10:07 — mike kraft

A program to bring internet access to low-income people is running out of money. Health care will suffer The digital divide perpetuates health inequalities and reinforces existing inequities. Torie Bosch STAT

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Bivalent COVID-19 booster outperforms monovalent version --new study

Thu, 2023-07-20 09:36 — mike kraft

Study shows bivalent COVID-19 booster outperforms monovalent version CIDRAP

A new Italian study finds that estimated relative vaccine effectiveness (rVE) was 49.3% for the bivalent (two-strain) booster and 26.9% for the monovalent (single-strain) booster, with protection lasting at least 4 months for the bivalent booster and waning fast for the monovalent version. The study appears in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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