Click to Skip AdClosing in...The novel coronavirus seemed like it might be a variation of the flu in the early days of the Wuhan epidemic. The more the virus spread and the more we learned about the pathogen, it became more apparent that . Not only does it spread a lot easier and faster, but it can cause a variety of serious complications that don’t appear in influenza cases. The new virus also kills a lot more people than the regular flu, even though some politicians claimed the two infectious diseases had similar mortality rates.Seven months later, the coronavirus has killed nearly...…Click to Skip AdClosing in...The novel coronavirus seemed like it might be a variation of the flu in the early days of the Wuhan epidemic. The more the virus spread and the more we learned about the pathogen, it became more apparent that . Not only does it spread a lot easier and faster, but it can cause a variety of serious complications that don’t appear in influenza cases. The new virus also kills a lot more people than the regular flu, even though some politicians claimed the two infectious diseases had similar mortality rates.Seven months later, the coronavirus has killed nearly...WW…

Click to Skip AdClosing in...The world has been battling the novel coronavirus for more than seven months, and we’ve had plenty of time to learn that COVID-19 is nothing like the flu, even though some people still dismiss it as such. It’s highly infectious, and its . It can’t be treated as effectively as the flu, and the drugs we take to treat flu symptoms aren’t enough to treat COVID-19. The complications are also far worse than the flu, and many people who have survived the infections .That’s because the virus doesn’t just hurt the lungs . SARS-CoV-2 can impact several other organs,...…Click to Skip AdClosing in...The world has been battling the novel coronavirus for more than seven months, and we’ve had plenty of time to learn that COVID-19 is nothing like the flu, even though some people still dismiss it as such. It’s highly infectious, and its . It can’t be treated as effectively as the flu, and the drugs we take to treat flu symptoms aren’t enough to treat COVID-19. The complications are also far worse than the flu, and many people who have survived the infections .That’s because the virus doesn’t just hurt the lungs . SARS-CoV-2 can impact several other organs,...WW…

FITBITHow environmental factors undermine accuracy of sleep and stress trackingWareable is reader-powered. If you click through using links on the site, we may earn anaffiliate commission.Learn moreTuesdayFitbit is working on a new way to improve wearers’ skin temperature estimates, by filtering out the factors currently skewing readings.In a patent filing spied by Wareable, Fitbit explains how factoring in the temperature of the device and the ambient air temperature would result in more accurate skin temperature readings, unaffected by environmental and other non-physiological...…FITBITHow environmental factors undermine accuracy of sleep and stress trackingWareable is reader-powered. If you click through using links on the site, we may earn anaffiliate commission.Learn moreTuesdayFitbit is working on a new way to improve wearers’ skin temperature estimates, by filtering out the factors currently skewing readings.In a patent filing spied by Wareable, Fitbit explains how factoring in the temperature of the device and the ambient air temperature would result in more accurate skin temperature readings, unaffected by environmental and other non-physiological...WW…

Click to Skip AdClosing in...When will life return to normal now that the world has coronavirus vaccines that can prevent severe illness and death? Many have tried to answer that question so far, and most speculation has been promising. and are among the experts who said that countries like the US could revert to almost a normal life by the end of 2021. Some estimates were better than others, with Fauci saying in some interviews that life could return to a meaningful degree of normalcy by late summer or early fall. But there were big “ifs” attached to those optimistic predictions: They...…Click to Skip AdClosing in...When will life return to normal now that the world has coronavirus vaccines that can prevent severe illness and death? Many have tried to answer that question so far, and most speculation has been promising. and are among the experts who said that countries like the US could revert to almost a normal life by the end of 2021. Some estimates were better than others, with Fauci saying in some interviews that life could return to a meaningful degree of normalcy by late summer or early fall. But there were big “ifs” attached to those optimistic predictions: They...WW…

Click to Skip AdClosing in...It’s too early to call it a miracle cure, but if the conclusions from a recent Phase 1 trial for a new drug called EXO-C24 are backed up in subsequent trials, we might have the first true breakthrough therapy for COVID-19. That’s in addition to coronavirus vaccines, of course, which will help prevent severe COVID-19 cases and deaths, and even reduce the spread of the illness. But while vaccines can give the immune system a heads-up to the threat it might have to deal with — the real virus — they have a few limitations. First of all, they don’t work on infected...…Click to Skip AdClosing in...It’s too early to call it a miracle cure, but if the conclusions from a recent Phase 1 trial for a new drug called EXO-C24 are backed up in subsequent trials, we might have the first true breakthrough therapy for COVID-19. That’s in addition to coronavirus vaccines, of course, which will help prevent severe COVID-19 cases and deaths, and even reduce the spread of the illness. But while vaccines can give the immune system a heads-up to the threat it might have to deal with — the real virus — they have a few limitations. First of all, they don’t work on infected...WW…

Maybe my question was confusing. Or maybe California’s COVID response is such a mess, and the troubles the state is confronting are so numerous, that the senior Biden administration official didn’t know where to start his answer. “I’m not sure whether you’re asking about the vaccination program progress or about the public health issues about the new variant, so I don’t want to answer something that’s not being asked,” he replied tentatively. “I saw what you saw, which was the comments from the California health department that they were revamping the program to get more vaccinations out...…Maybe my question was confusing. Or maybe California’s COVID response is such a mess, and the troubles the state is confronting are so numerous, that the senior Biden administration official didn’t know where to start his answer. “I’m not sure whether you’re asking about the vaccination program progress or about the public health issues about the new variant, so I don’t want to answer something that’s not being asked,” he replied tentatively. “I saw what you saw, which was the comments from the California health department that they were revamping the program to get more vaccinations out...WW…

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Bill Barr will not be missed by most of the hundreds of nonpartisan career prosecutors inside the Department of Justice. Least of all, though, by the lawyers working for the Southern District of New York, whose jurisdiction covers most of Donald Trump’s hometown—and whose continuing probes of the president’s associates, including an investigation of Rudy Giuliani, are far less likely to be squashed. “Everything depends on the facts and witnesses in those cases,” a former senior SDNY official says. “But certainly they are more likely to proceed without Barr in there, who was just a disgrace....…Bill Barr will not be missed by most of the hundreds of nonpartisan career prosecutors inside the Department of Justice. Least of all, though, by the lawyers working for the Southern District of New York, whose jurisdiction covers most of Donald Trump’s hometown—and whose continuing probes of the president’s associates, including an investigation of Rudy Giuliani, are far less likely to be squashed. “Everything depends on the facts and witnesses in those cases,” a former senior SDNY official says. “But certainly they are more likely to proceed without Barr in there, who was just a disgrace....WW…

Chris Van Hollen tried to make Joe Biden mad. Didn’t work. Van Hollen tried to confuse Biden. No luck. Then again, this was 2012, when Biden was the incumbent vice president, and Van Hollen was playing the part of Republican veep nominee Paul Ryan in mock debates. Whatever you may think of Ryan’s politics, the congressman was at least a coherent thinker and speaker. “What I was trying to do was to throw a lot of stuff at Biden that might come his way,” Van Hollen, who is now a U.S. senator from Maryland, tells me. “So you come up with the most outrageous things that Paul Ryan might say, and...…Chris Van Hollen tried to make Joe Biden mad. Didn’t work. Van Hollen tried to confuse Biden. No luck. Then again, this was 2012, when Biden was the incumbent vice president, and Van Hollen was playing the part of Republican veep nominee Paul Ryan in mock debates. Whatever you may think of Ryan’s politics, the congressman was at least a coherent thinker and speaker. “What I was trying to do was to throw a lot of stuff at Biden that might come his way,” Van Hollen, who is now a U.S. senator from Maryland, tells me. “So you come up with the most outrageous things that Paul Ryan might say, and...WW…

Click to Skip AdClosing in...Some drink it to stay awake, others just because they like it. Either way, coffee and other caffeine-based products remain very popular. People have debated the effects caffeine intake has on the body for years. Recent research showed that for , not just for giving your brain a boost, as long as . But a brand new study from Switzerland delivers less optimistic news about the direct effect of coffee on brain structure.According to the new study, regular caffeine consumption leads to a reduction in gray matter, especially in a brain region that handles memory. The...…Click to Skip AdClosing in...Some drink it to stay awake, others just because they like it. Either way, coffee and other caffeine-based products remain very popular. People have debated the effects caffeine intake has on the body for years. Recent research showed that for , not just for giving your brain a boost, as long as . But a brand new study from Switzerland delivers less optimistic news about the direct effect of coffee on brain structure.According to the new study, regular caffeine consumption leads to a reduction in gray matter, especially in a brain region that handles memory. The...WW…