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Apple Launches a New Study to Find if Apple Watch Can Detect COVID-19 Apr 14, 2021 11:46 EDT Apple is deeply integrating several health-related features into the Apple Watch. The company incorporated blood oxygen sensors and ECG in its wearable which is proving to save a lot of lives. With that said, the company is extending its approach to add more features to the Apple Watch. According to the latest, Apple is introducing a new study which will check if the Apple Watch is capable of detecting respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19, flu and more. Apple Introduces a New Study to Check Whe...

Seattle homeless shelters now have COVID vaccines, but few takers so far By Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times Published: April 10, 2021, 3:12pm Share: Before the pandemic, the Exhibition Hall at the Seattle Center was the site of fashion shows, high-society galas and book fairs; the Pacific Northwest Ballet practices a floor above and performs mere yards away. Since March 2020, the hall has been one of the largest emergency homeless shelters of its kind in the region, with 130 cots spaced 6 feet apart, covering the 34,000-square-foot floor. And on April 2, it became a vaccina...

Last year, as coronavirus took hold in the U.S., public health officials began to warn us about Influenza, which kills tens of thousands of people every

Print A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Sun City Anthem Community Center vaccination site in Henderson, Nevada, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Credit: Roger Kisby Advertisement As people around the world receive COVID-19 vaccines, reports of temporary side effects such as headaches and fevers are rolling in. Much of this was expected—clinical-trial data for the vaccines authorized so far suggested as much. But now that millions of people are vaccinated, compared with the thousands enrolled in early studies, reports of some rare, allerg...

CREDITS: (MAP) K. FRANKLIN/ SCIENCE; (DATA) GISAID; JOHNS HOPKINS CORONAVIRUS RESOURCE CENTER Since May 2020, Jeffrey Milbrandt has had his systems fine-tuned to sequence 1000 coronavirus samples a week. The director of a major sequencing center at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), Milbrandt knew months ago that the United States urgently needed to identify and track emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic coronavirus already spreading across the nation. But to date, fewer than 100 coronavirus samples have made it to his sequencers at the McDonnell Genome Institute, and the Un...