Fox News medical contributor joins The Story to discuss the timeline for vaccine distribution
The United States could reach herd immunity when 20% of the population receives the coronavirus vaccine, Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marty Makary told The Story Monday. There is a false construct out there, there’s a recommendation that we need to get every American immunized in order to get a handle on the pandemic, Makary a professor of surgery and health policy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore told guest host Brian Kilmeade. The reality is that about 25 to 50% of Americans have already had the infection and have some natural immunity, he added. Now, we don t know if that s a little better, a little worse, or the same as vaccinated immunity, but . we may only need to get an additional 20% of the population immunized by February or March to really hit those 70% herd immunity levels.
Who, in their right mind, saw it coming?
After a relatively quiet, rather “normal” first quarter, we all learned of a “new normal” that would reshape just about every aspect of daily life for those lucky enough survive the global pandemic known as COVID-19.
But first a little happiness arrived before the sorrow.
Following the New Year’s celebrations and promise to commit to resolutions, the first baby of the year was born at UPMC Susquehanna.
The baby arrived shortly before 5 a.m. Jan. 2. The story, aptly written by veteran newspaper man Philip A. Holmes, the lead police and fire reporter for the Sun-Gazette, described how Dusty Harkey was 37 weeks pregnant when she walked into the Williamsport Regional Medical Center’s Birthplace.
Heart to Hands Food Drive collects 4,618 pounds of food
The eighth annual Heart to Hands Food Drive collected 4,618 pounds of food Nov. 8 to Dec. 14, a 1,200-pound increase from 2019.
Two hundred pounds of the food collected went to the UC San Diego Triton Food Pantry, along with a $200 contribution from an unidentified donor.
Feeding San Diego received 1,140 pounds of donated food and the San Diego Food Bank received 2,758 pounds.
The Heart to Hands Food Drive collected pet food for the first time, donating 520 pounds to the San Diego Humane Society.
Over its eight-year history, the drive has raised 16,543 pounds of food for San Diegans.
Cancer of the reproductive system is frequent in both men and women. In females, it’s commonly breast or uterine cancer, while we males have to worry about the dreaded “Big C” in the form of prostate cancer. This disease occurs in men with such alarming frequency that one in five will be affected by it in their lifetime. The chance for developing it also increases significantly with age, making it most common in men over the age of 50. The risks for benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) also go up as we get older, a disease characterized by the non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate gland. BPH is an early warning sign that prostate cancer may be looming and it occurs so often in men over the age of 60 that it’s almost considered normal. With these diseases affecting many millions of men in this country, scientists have long sought to understand the root causes, the first step to establishing effective treatments and preventative measures. Although their triggers have not y
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At the end of 2020, the universe of potential treatments for psoriatic arthritis a heterogeneous, challenging condition estimated to afflict one to two individuals per 1,000 in the general population continues to expand. Several studies of new and emerging therapies presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) virtual annual meeting showed promise for future use in psoriatic arthritis, with some already approved for other autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. We are in a very good place for psoriatic arthritis in that we have a lot of different treatment options, Rebecca Haberman, MD, of NYU Langone Health in New York City, told