A new preprint study by the Cleveland Clinic found people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 were less likely to be reinfected than fully vaccinated individuals who never had the virus [.]
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Large gatherings and much more lenient restrictions have allowed the virus to spread at devastating levels
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Young man returns to his home after getting his COVID-19 shot following the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh’s government giving permission to vaccinate people older than 18. Credit: Pradeep Gaur
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India’s relatively mild first wave of COVID last year intrigued scientists and led the country’s leadership to declare what turned out to be a very premature victory over the novel coronavirus. The current surge has been much more deadly. Some researchers and media outlets have pinned the blame on new viral variants, which early studies suggest may be more transmissible than the original strain. But many experts familiar with the situation on the ground argue that large gatherings and crowds in closed, compact urban spaces in contrast with the draconian lockdown imposed during the first wave are driving most of the spread.
Diagnosis, Treatment of Gender Dysphoria Varies Among Children Credit: Getty Images
HealthDay News â Only 29 percent of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria receive a gender dysphoria-related diagnosis (GDRD), and 25 percent are prescribed gender-affirming hormonal treatment (GAHT), according to a study published online June 7 in
Pediatrics.
Stephanie Wagner, M.D., M.P.H., from the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, and colleagues identified a cohort of 958 gender-diverse children and adolescents who did not have a GDRD or GAHT at index. Across demographic groups, the authors compared the rates of first GDRD and first GAHT prescription.
The researchers found that during the average follow-up of 3.5 years, 29 percent of participants received a GDRD and 25 percent were prescribed GAHT. Youth assigned female at birth were more likely than youth assigned male at birth to receive a diagnosis and initiate GAHT (hazard ratio estimates of 1.3 [95 pe
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In 1959, the waning days of the Jim Crow era, Clark College graduate Marion Gerald Hood applied to Emory University School of Medicine. The response from the school’s director of admissions, L. L. Clegg, was pointed and swift: “I am sorry I must write you that we are not authorized to consider for admission a member of the Negro race.”
The school returned Hood’s $5 application fee. “I don’t even know if they looked at my credentials,” he says. Hood went on to attend medical school at Loyola University in Chicago and to enjoy a long and distinguished career in gynecology and obstetrics in Atlanta.