Those Nerdy Girls present the facts, bust myths, and discuss solutions to the gun violence crisis in America. Hosted by: – Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH: Contributing Writer at TNG, co-Founder of Critica & Author of Denying to the Grave – Chana Davis, PhD: TNG Contributing Writer & Founder of Fueled by Science ➡️ Hello and …
Gun violence has become an alarming public health crisis in the United States. Its toll goes well beyond the thousands of lives lost each year. It devastates families and communities. It threatens our sense of safety and security. In a series on gun violence as a public health issue, we explain the different types of …
Follow the feces. Wastewater data is one of our best remaining tools for COVID-19 surveillance. With the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency in the US, the US CDC will stop reporting community levels of COVID-19 cases or positivity rates. The accuracy of these numbers has also likely declined over time as people tested …
No, not for most people. But for vulnerable people, repeated infections can still be dangerous. And each infection carries its own risk of Long Covid. TL;DR: Repeated COVID-19 infections are neither destroying our immune systems NOR completely harmless. Like many things with COVID-19, the truth lies somewhere in between. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is here to …
Maybe …or maybe not. Recent studies suggest that many people are unaware of their past COVID-19 infections. A Canadian study found that, in people with antibodies showing previous infection, roughly half of them thought they were COVID-19 virgins. This study used blood samples from roughly 15,000 Canadian adults surveyed across the country from April 2022 …
Hoy presentamos una serie de gráficas sobre el VIH en las mujeres publicadas por los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades. Los datos deben interpretarse con cautela debido al impacto de la pandemia de COVID-19, pero todavía son recursos importantes. Estas gráficas no fueron creadas por Las Nerdy Girls. Pueden haber algunas …
No. La Oficina Nacional de Estadística de Inglaterra acaba de publicar nuevos datos exhaustivos que comparan las muertes por TODAS las causas según el estado de vacunación de COVID. En todos los grupos de edad, las tasas de mortalidad son sistemáticamente más bajas entre las personas vacunadas que entre las no vacunadas. También se pueden …
A: No. The Office of National Statistics in England just released some comprehensive new data comparing deaths from ALL causes by COVID vaccination status. Across all age groups, death rates are consistently lower among vaccinated vs. unvaccinated people. You can also clearly see the spikes in mortality associated with the Delta & Omicron waves that …
La prueba casera de detección del cáncer de colon utiliza una muestra de heces recogidas por el propio paciente para buscar signos de ADN canceroso. Ese una prueba eficaz y cómoda para la mayoría de las personas entre 45 y 75 años. La prueba casera de ADN (comercializada como Cologuard en EE.UU. y Colo-Alert en …
No. Sadly, we are most likely still UNDER-counting Covid-19 deaths. Among the most persistent COVID-19 myths is the idea that COVID-19 deaths are being over-counted, which recently resurfaced in a Washington Post editorial. We’ve all heard stories of COVID positive motorcycle accident victims being counted or the saying that people are dying *with* COVID-19 rather …
