One-third top US hospitals’ websites sent patient data to Facebook: Report – ET HealthWorld

One-third top US hospitals’ websites sent patient data to Facebook: Report – ET HealthWorld

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

Coronavirus Infected One-Third of Americans in 2020

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

One-third of Chennai’s population exposed to coronavirus, finds new serosurvey

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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

Brain fog to delirium: One-third of hospitalised Covid-19 patients in study developed brain malfunction

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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