Multi-Day Hospital Stays for Banged Up E-Scooter Riders
E-scooter users broke bones from head to toe, and a third were so banged up, they were in-hospital for an average of 11 days, a researcher reported. In a study that tracked and compared the growth of e-scooter injuries from August 2016 to February 2018 — and from August 2018 to February 2020 after e-scooters […]
The Science Supporting the U.S. Case for COVID Boosters
U.S. health officials laid out the scientific rationale for a third dose of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for all U.S. adults on Wednesday, relying on published and unpublished CDC data, as well as a preprint study. Overall, they said that there is evidence that vaccine effectiveness against infection — both symptomatic and asymptomatic — has […]
Third Dose a Charm in Israel? Door-to-Door ‘Goons’; Cervids Catch COVID, Too!
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Israel approved a third shot of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for citizens over 60 years of age. (Times of Israel) Shortly after President Biden urged the Defense Department to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for military personnel, the Pentagon said it would start talks on exactly that. (The […]