Photo by 9nong / Shutterstock.com Millions of Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but the vast majority of the population still has yet to receive the vaccine. If you are among them, know that there are some behaviors you should avoid after you get the shot. They include the …
Read More »Mississippi Will Remove ‘Misleading’ Language About Covid-19 Vaccine
Bobby Wayne, a retired reverend, called the state seeking help getting the vaccine. He said he was told there was no evidence the vaccine was effective. Bobby Wayne, a retired reverend with prostate cancer and leukemia, had spent a week calling health agencies around his county in Mississippi, trying to …
Read More »Some Long Covid-19 Patients Feel Better After Vaccine Doses
It is too soon to tell whether the shots have a broad beneficial effect on patients with continuing issues, but scientists are intrigued and beginning to study the phenomenon. Judy Dodd began struggling with long Covid symptoms last spring — shortness of breath, headaches, exhaustion. Then she got the vaccine. …
Read More »A Traveler’s Worst Nightmare: When Your Covid-19 Test Comes Back Positive
Contracting the coronavirus while far from home is a frightening possibility. And sometimes it happens, with consequences that can be deadly. Late last year, Jose Arellano, a U.S. Navy veteran, and his wife, Gloria, traveled 2,000 miles from home to the resort town of Oaxaca, Mexico, to use up about …
Read More »6 Ways the New COVID-19 Relief Law Affects Retirees
Dragon Images / Shutterstock.com Besides the third round of stimulus payments, multiple expanded tax credits for parents are perhaps the most widely known provisions of the COVID-19 relief bill that President Joe Biden signed into law on March 11. But the expansive legislation, formally known as the American Rescue Plan …
Read More »M’sian Uncles & Aunties, Here’s What Drs. Say About TCM’s Real Role In Fighting COVID-19
While wearing masks, social distancing, and washing our hands regularly are some preventative measures we can take against COVID-19, some of us still wonder what else can be done to further protect ourselves. During the early months of the pandemic, I recall getting WhatsApp chain messages forwarded to me by …
Read More »Covid-19 Relief Bill Fulfills Biden’s Promise to Expand Obamacare, for Two Years
With its expanded subsidies for health plans under the Affordable Care Act, the coronavirus relief bill makes insurance more affordable, and puts health care on the ballot in 2022. WASHINGTON — President Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill will fulfill one of his central campaign promises, to fill the …
Read More »COVID-19 Relief Coming Soon: Here’s What You Need to Know
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RadioPublic | Stitcher | RSS After exhausting debate, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is finally about to be signed into law. The legislation was passed by the Senate Saturday on a strict party-line basis: Every Democrat voted for the …
Read More »The COVID-19 Vaccines In M’sia & Their Status Against The Recent UK & Nigerian Variants
Malaysians will be vaccinated with several different brands of COVID-19 vaccines, and the breakdown of the vaccines we’ll get are as follows: Pfizer-BioNTech; Oxford-AstraZeneca; Sinovac; CanSinoBIO; Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. While there are plenty of vaccines to cover most Malaysians, the new virus variants that emerged recently like UK’s COVID-19 …
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