As Fetterman embarks on a well-funded campaign for Pennsylvania’s 2022 U.S. Senate race, his record in Braddock is both his bedrock and a thorn in his side. Because when you talk to the people who live in Braddock and know the former mayor’s work well, complicated feelings emerge.
Need another reason to get vaccinated? It prevents sepsis, the condition that makes COVID-19 deadly
Marie McCullough, The Philadelphia Inquirer
April 28, 2021
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PHILADELPHIA The reason severe COVID-19 is so deadly is that it unleashes a condition called sepsis.
Sepsis occurs when an abnormal immune response to an infection damages the body’s own tissues, leading to organ failure.
Of the 26,266 people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Pennsylvania in the first seven months of the pandemic, about 8,000, or 31%, also were diagnosed with sepsis, according to a new report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).
COVID-19 vaccines may not offer complete protection for people with compromised immune systems
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How COVID-19 vaccines work
A visual explainer on how vaccines work, including how they work with the body’s immune system and their use in preventing coronavirus. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
If you have a weakened immune system, the COVID-19vaccines may have a reduced effectiveness for you. Experts say it s still very important for you and those around you to get vaccinated, but it may be necessary for those with compromised immune systems to take extra precautions after vaccination. We are aware that this population may not have the same beneficial response to vaccines that we see in others who are not immunosuppressed, Dr. Linda Finn, the director of hematology and bone marrow transplant at Ochsner Health, told ABC News. We do still recommend the vaccines, any benefit they can borrow from it, but still follow other precautions very closely.
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PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania property manager and landlord discount any claims of negligence filed against them by a Pittsburgh woman, who claimed that such actions led her to suffer third-degree burns when she went to take a shower.
Tanika L. Hancock first filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on March 8 versus Judy Pison of New Kensington and Lockwood Management, LLC, of Export.
In March 2019, Hancock lived at 2006 Monroe Street, Apartment No. 1 located in Swissvale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 15218. Ms. Hancock’s apartment was owned and operated by Lockwood Management LLC. At that time, Judy Pison, was the property manager of 2006 #1 Monroe Street.
While Covid vaccines help curb the pandemic, researchers are working on an antiviral pill
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Developing drugs for respiratory diseases is tough, partly because doses have to be high enough for the medicine to reach deep into the lungs yet not so high that they re toxic.
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