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Which COVID Test Is Best? 

In All Health Watch, General Health

 

With kids back in school and people heading back to the office, something as minor as a cough or runny nose might lead us to get tested for COVID.  

A lot has changed since the early days of the pandemic when the only way to get tested was to line up at a testing site. Today, there are many different options. Read More

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The Best COVID Vaccine Choice 

In All Health Watch, Coronavirus, Health Warning

When COVID vaccines first became available in the U.S. earlier this year, doctors advised that you should not worry about which you got. You should simply take whatever kind you could get first.  

But now, it is becoming clear that one vaccine offers stronger protection than the others.  

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that Moderna vaccine recipients create more COVID antibodies than Pfizer patients do.Read More

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COVID Burnout: Is Your Doctor Holding It Together? 

In All Health Watch, Coronavirus, General Health

One of the leading causes of death in the United States is health care. 

That sounds absurd. But it’s true. Medical errors lead to some 200,000 American deaths a year. 

If medical mistakes were a disease, they would be more deadly than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined.i 

That would make medical errors the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer.Read More