Excessive alcohol consumption among Americans has persisted in the years following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When you live through multiple crises, there is a tendency to reframe past hardships through the lens of current experiences, which is what I find myself doing a lot of these days.
The Ministry of Health has approved Moderna's updated COVID vaccines, which target the new JN1 variant of the virus.
While over 90% of people experience a major traumatic event at some point during their lifetime, most walk away unscathed. Others, however, carry emotional scars for decades.
Irreversible complications and even deaths were reported as a result of unvaccinated infants and pregnant women who could easily have given them immunity.
Patients who had admitted to using cannabis in the year prior to contracting COVID were 80% more likely to be hospitalized and 27% more likely to be admitted to the ICU.
"Our research shows that there were changes in some risk factors around the time that the Omicron BA.2 variant became dominant,” said Prof. Paul Hunter of Norwich Medical School.
COVID-19 may be regarded as a disease of the past, but it’s still causing health problems.
The survey does state that half of Americans still say it's important for medical professionals and doctors to address long COVID, while 22% said that they never heard of such a concept.
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