Film Introducing Alternative Health Care Plans to Premiere – WFMZ Allentown
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Month: October 2020
Benefits of alternative healthcare options for fleets – Commercial Carrier Journal
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Mira raises $2.7 million for its health insurance alternative – Axios
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Warning: Don’t Touch This Hairy- Looking Caterpillar
Contact with a puss caterpillar can cause a painful reaction as well as a rash, fever, muscle cramps or swollen glands, experts caution. View original article Contributor:
Advancing good mental health for all
For nearly thirty years, nations across the world have come together on 10 October to shine a spotlight on mental health. This year, World Mental Health Day feels more important than ever as we feel the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our daily lives. We have adapted to wearing masks and socially distancing from … Read more
Losing your sense of smell from COVID can trigger negative moods
An early sign of COVID-19 is loss of sense of smell. For some people, this can linger after recovery. Preliminary data shows that a quarter of recovered COVID-19 patients say … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
U.S. States Are Rolling Out COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps. Months of Evidence From Europe Shows They’re No Silver Bullet
On Oct. 1, New York state released an app that can notify you if you’ve come into contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19. Called “COVID Alert NY,” the app is one of 10 currently active in states around the U.S. that are based on Google and Apple’s decentralized contact tracing system, … Read more
Democrats and Republicans Aren’t Watching the Same Pandemic
This week’s vice presidential debate was a face off not only between Vice President President Mike Pence and California Senator Kamala Harris, but a head-to-head matchup of two ways of understanding the United States’ COVID-19 pandemic. As Pence framed it, the Donald Trump Administration had been dealt a bad hand, but has risen to the … Read more
‘It’s a Game for Them.’ Scientists Around the World Are Teaching Dogs to Sniff Out COVID-19
Steve Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University, is midway through explaining how dogs might play a role in detecting COVID-19 infections when a decidedly less-well trained canine interrupts our conversation. “If you’ll excuse me for a minute, I’ve got a naughty black Labrador out in the back garden doing something it shouldn’t be … Read more
Pregnant women are likely to have mild covid-19 cases but suffer prolonged symptoms, study finds
The median length of symptoms was 37 days. View original article Contributor: Brittany Shammas