What you need to know about coronavirus on Tuesday, December 29 CNN 12/29/2020 © Reuters CDC releases illustration of the Coronavirus.
It is almost a year since China first reported cases of a novel coronavirus to the World Health Organization, on New Year s Eve 2019. Since then, the virus has swept the globe, sickening more than 81 million people and killing at least 1.7 million. And while we have learned a remarkable amount about the disease, a number of questions remain unanswered as the year comes to a close, Julia Hollingsworth writes.
One thing became clearer on Monday: The scale of the crisis in the original epicenter of the pandemic may have been almost 10 times the official tally of confirmed cases. According to a study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly half a million residents in the Chinese city of Wuhan may have been infected with Covid-19, Nectar Gan reports.
Why picking your nose isn t just gross — it s dangerous
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Gen. Robert B. Abrams, Commanding General for United States Forces Korea, receives a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Brian D. Allgood Army Community Hospital, U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys on December 29, 2020 in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. (Photo by United States Forces Korea via Getty Images)
If you’ve been on Facebook or Twitter in the past two weeks, you’ve likely seen photos of doctors and nurses telling their family and friends about their experience receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
Virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen told the Gee & Ursula Show on KIRO Radio on Tuesday that it’s been frustrating to hear people spread myths about the COVID-19 vaccine. She said it’s typical information that people who are anti-vaccines in general are applying to this new vaccine.
COVID-19: This Is the Deadliest County in the Deadliest State Douglas A. McIntyre © Provided by 24/7 Wall St.
The spread of COVID-19 has gone from one that was regional to one that is nearly universal across America. What had been concentrated in New York then moved South and West. Cases recently spiked in the heartland states of North and South Dakota. Total confirmed cases in America have reached 19.5 million. Fatal cases have topped 338,000. Each rises at near-record paces daily.
Statistically, some areas are worse off than others. Currently, the pandemic rages in New Mexico, where the deaths per 1,000 people over the past seven days have reached 1.4. That is followed by Wyoming (1.3), Pennsylvania (1.2) and Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi and West Virginia (1.1).
We teach kids not to do it. It s unsanitary. It s just plain gross to see.
Let s be real, though. Most of us pick our noses - some 91% according to the only (small and old) study that seems to have ever been done on the subject, perhaps revealing how little even scientists want to think about it. Looking around the world, however, it s not exactly uncommon to see someone with a finger up their nose, either discreetly or not so much, like Queen Elizabeth.
Jokes aside, nose picking is deadly serious.
Not only are people spreading their own bacteria and viruses onto everything they touch after a bout of digging for gold - but you also transfer germs from your fingertips into the nose, which is the exact opposite of what you want, said infectious disease specialist Dr. Paul Pottinger, a professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.
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