Catoosa County Launches On-line Registration For COVID-19 Vaccines
Vaccine Eligibility Will Expand To More Age Groups, Medical Histories Thursday, March 11, 2021
Catoosa County government and its partners announced the launch of an online portal now open to Georgia residents who wish to register for their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to be given at the Catoosa County Colonnade & Health Department campus.
Georgia residents can access and complete the COVID-19 Vaccine Registration form at https://tinyurl.com/d9pauz27. People without internet access can register by calling the Catoosa County COVID-19 Vaccine Hotline at 800-8004 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Smoke from local wildfires can affect the health of Colorado residents, shows study
Smoke from local wildfires can affect the health of Colorado residents, in addition to smoke from fires in forests as far away as California and the Pacific Northwest.
Researchers at Colorado State University, curious about the health effects from smoke from large wildfires across the Western United States, analyzed six years of hospitalization data and death records for the cities along the Front Range, which reaches deep into central Colorado from southern Wyoming.
They found that wildfire smoke was associated with increased hospitalizations for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and some cardiovascular health outcomes. They also discovered that wildfire smoke was associated with deaths from asthma and cardiovascular disease, but that there was a difference in the effects of smoke from local fires and that from distant ones.
New study may lead to therapeutic strategies for chronic lung disease
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have implicated a type of immune cell in the development of chronic lung disease that sometimes is triggered following a respiratory viral infection.
The evidence suggests that activation of this immune cell a type of guardian cell called a dendritic cell serves as an early switch that, when activated, sets in motion a chain of events that drives progressive lung diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
The new study, published in The
Journal of Immunology, opens the door to potential preventive or therapeutic strategies for chronic lung disease. More immediately, measuring the levels of these dendritic cells in clinical samples from patients hospitalized with a viral infection, such as influenza or COVID-19, could help doctors identify which patients are at high risk of respiratory failure and death.
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