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Beyoncé teams with Peloton to offer free workout memberships to HBCU students
It is also appropriate that Peloton tapped Beyoncé because she is the most requested artist by Peloton's global community of more than 3.6 million members, Variety reports. Howard University officials, for instance, relayed that students will receive their Peloton digital-membership codes through their school email accounts in time for Thanksgiving. [Full Article...]
Almost 20% of COVID-19 Survivors Develop Mental Illness, Study Finds
Covid-19 patients are more likely to develop a mental illness, with 20 per cent of patients being diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days of contracting the virus, a new study has found. Author of the study Paul Harrison, professor of psychiatry at the UK's University of Oxford said: "People have been anxious that Covid-19 survivors will be at greater risk of mental health problems,... [Full Article...]
FDA Gives Eli Lilly COVID Antibody Drug Emergency OK
Now, the FDA has formally issued an EUA allowing specific patients access to one of these experimental antibody therapies in development. " Monoclonal antibodies are laboratory-made proteins that mimic the immune system's ability to fight off harmful antigens such as viruses", the FDA wrote in the statement. [Full Article...]
Johnson suffers defeat in UK Parliament over Brexit law breach
The government said it would try to reintroduce the measures when the bill is returned to the House of Commons, where they have already been approved. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called on Downing Street to scrap the Bill as it seeks to foster a close relationship with the successor to the pro-Brexit Mr Trump. [Full Article...]
Masks protect both wearer and those around them
Ever since CDC first recommended widespread mask usage in April, the reasoning was to protect other people -when everyone in public wears a mask, everyone can be protected. "The evidence is piling up that masks work in terms of driving down the risk for everyone", said Harvard environmental health researcher Joseph Gardner Allen, who directs the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard T.H. [Full Article...]
Rapid Covid-19 tests to be rolled out across Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester's 10 boroughs are among 50 towns and cities across England to receive a share of over half a million rapid-turnaround tests. On Wednesday scientists warned that the public will have to be given lessons in how to use tests, which require patience for the swab to be shaken in the box at least 10 times. [Full Article...]
Health Ministry Suspects Israelis Returned from Denmark with Mink Mutated Coronavirus
Passenger planes and ships carrying freight from Denmark will also not be allowed to dock at English ports. Cabin crew are also no longer exempt from the rules, which Ryanair described as a "bizarre and baseless" move, according to the BBC. [Full Article...]
COVID-19 death toll spikes as Manitoba reports nine, 431 new cases
Roussin also reported that five more Manitobans have died due to COVID-19, including three linked to outbreaks at health-care facilities in Winnipeg: a woman in her 80s linked to the outbreak at Seine River Retirement Residence, another woman in her 80s linked to the outbreak at Maples Long Term Care Home and a woman in her 90s linked to the outbreak Victoria General Hospital. [Full Article...]