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Older adults reported higher levels of certainty that they will get the vaccine. Nearly 72% of adults ages 65 and older said they would "definitely" get a vaccine once available, while 4% said they definitely would not.

Anti-vaccine activists peddle theories that COVID-19 shots are deadly, undermining vaccination

February 1, 2021 at 11:26 a.m.

Anti-vaccine groups are exploiting the suffering and death of people who happen to fall ill after receiving a COVID-19 shot, threatening to undermine the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history....

An employee removes vials of Covishield, the local name for the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc. and the University of Oxford, from a machine on the production line at the Serum Institute of India Ltd. Hadaspar plant in Pune, Maharashtra, India, on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Serum, which is the world's largest vaccine maker by volume, has an agreement with AstraZeneca to produce at least a billion doses. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Por qué ni siquiera la presión presidencial podría acelerar las vacunas contra covid

January 26, 2021 at 12:35 p.m.

Miles de estadounidenses están muriendo a causa de covid-19, pero los esfuerzos para aumentar la producción de vacunas que potencialmente salvan vidas están en un callejón sin salida. Moderna y...

COLOGNE, GERMANY - DECEMBER 27: Resident Gertrud Vogel, 92, receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine from doctor Irene Spiertz-Schmidt at a nursing home of the Sozial-Betriebe-Köln on the first day of the nationwide launch of Covid-19 vaccinations during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on December 27, 2020 in Cologne, Germany. Germany is beginning the vaccinations today mainly with mobile teams who are inoculating senior citizens in nursing homes. The volume of delivered vaccine is to rise sharply next week and many mass vaccination centers will open their doors in early January. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Cinco razones para usar el tapabocas incluso después de ser vacunado

January 22, 2021 at 10:58 a.m.

Como médico de urgencias, la doctora Eugenia South estuvo en el primer grupo de personas que recibieron la vacuna contra el COVID-19. Recibió su segunda dosis la semana pasada, incluso...

A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient is transferred to the main ICU at the La Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, from a makeshift wing which could not support both the dialysis and respirator machines necessary for his worsening condition on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. France is more than two weeks into its second coronavirus lockdown, and intensive care wards have been over 95% capacity for more than 10 days now. Marseille has been submerged with coronavirus cases since September. The port city, on France's Mediterranean coast, was spared the worst of the virus last spring only to be hit with a vengeance as the summer vacation wound down. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

‘Hallazgo revolucionario’ revela por qué ciertos pacientes mueren de COVID-19

November 23, 2020 at 11:02 p.m.

La doctora Megan Ranney ha aprendido mucho sobre COVID-19 desde que empezó a tratar pacientes con la enfermedad en el departamento de emergencias en febrero. Pero hay una pregunta que...

La foto de archivo del 16 de marzo de 2020 muestra los frascos empleados para una prueba clínica de una posible vacuna contra el COVID-19 en Seattle.

Expertos: EEUU no está preparado para vacuna coronavirus

September 2, 2020 at 10:02 a.m.

Millones de estadounidenses cuentan con que una vacuna contra el COVID-19 frenará la pandemia global y permitirá que la vida regrese a la normalidad. Si bien podría haber una o...

El doctor Anthony Fauci, director del Instituto Nacional de Alergias y Enfermedades Infecciosas.

Fauci: la vacuna contra covid estaría lista antes de lo esperado

September 2, 2020 at 9:51 a.m.

Una vacuna contra COVID-19 podría estar disponible antes de lo esperado si los ensayos clínicos en curso producen resultados abrumadoramente positivos, dijo el doctor Anthony Fauci, funcionario de enfermedades infecciosas...

Shalondra Rollins se graduó con un título de asociado en educación de la primera infancia en 2018. Murió de COVID-19 el 7 de abril de 2020. "Quiero que el mundo sepa que no era sólo una estadística", dice su madre, Cassandra. "Era una persona maravillosa. Fue amada".

Raza, ingreso y código postal, ¿sentencias de muerte por Covid-19?

April 28, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.

Empezó con un dolor de cabeza a finales de marzo. Luego vinieron los dolores corporales. Al principio, el médico de Shalondra Rollins pensó que era influenza. El 7 de abril,...

As coronavirus spreads widely, millions of older Americans live in counties with no ICU beds

March 25, 2020 at 12:46 p.m.

More than half the counties in America have no intensive care beds, posing a particular danger for more than 7 million people who are age 60 and up older patients...

A Kaiser Health News investigation found that manufacturers, hospitals, doctors and some patient advocates have put their marketing muscle — and millions of dollars — behind 3D mammograms, even though the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says they haven't been shown to be more effective than traditional mammograms.

A million-dollar marketing juggernaut pushes 3D mammograms

November 5, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

When Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens made an appointment for a mammogram last year, she expected a simple breast cancer screening — not a heavy-handed sales pitch. A receptionist asked if she...

Sheri Khan lost her 9-year-old daughter Sofia Khan in a kayaking accident. In her memory, a little garden is nestled into the southwest corner of Logan Square's Haas Park playground where a blue sign reads "Sofia Khan Garden." <a href="/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-sunday-sofias-garden-haas-park-0729-story.html">Read the full story.</a>

Up to a third of knee replacements pack pain and regret

January 8, 2019 at 3:58 p.m.

Danette Lake thought surgery would relieve the pain in her knees. The arthritis pain began as a dull ache in her early 40s, brought on largely by the pressure of...

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