Ernakulam accounted for around 30% of the confirmed dengue cases reported in Kerala over the past two weeks, according to official estimates. Of the total 1,285 confirmed cases reported since June 15, 402 were reported in the district, indicating the spike in the number of dengue cases. Around 160 confirmed cases were recorded in Ernakulam … Read more
Washington: About 33 of the top 100 hospitals in the US are sending sensitive patient data to Facebook, now known as Meta, via a tracking tool installed on their websites, according to a media report. Whenever a person schedules a doctor’s appointment, the tracker called the Meta Pixel sends Facebook data — which includes details … Read more
Aug. 26, 2021 — About one third of the US population had been infected with coronavirus 2 by the end of 2020, according to a new study published today in Nature. Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, director of the Climate and Health Program at Columbia University, and colleagues simulated the spread of coronavirus within all 3,142 … Read more
The second serosurvey in Chennai, Tamil Nadu shows that one in three people in the city, who have been tested for coronavirus, was found to be positive. The Greater Chennai Corporation said on Thursday that according to the Chennai serosurvey-II, out of the 6,389 samples tested, 2,062 were positive for Covid-19 antibodies. The results have … Read more
Nearly one-third of Covid-19 patients in a US hospital system experienced some kind of altered mental function, a study published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology has found. These altered mental functions included confusion, delirium and unresponsiveness, the study noted. The research explored the neurologic manifestations of Covid-19 and found some were present in … Read more