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13-Year-Old Gave COVID To 11 Relatives Across 4 States During Family Vacation: CDC

October 13, 2020

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Nearly a dozen people across four states were infected with the novel coronavirus by a 13-year-old girl during a three-week family vacation over the summer, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The teenager, whose identity remains anonymous, was exposed to COVID-19 during a “large outbreak” in June, leading her to take a coronavirus test four days later. She tested negative and was not showing symptoms at the time, the report states.

But two days later, the teen began experiencing nasal congestion, a symptom of COVID-19, on the same day she, her parents and two brothers traveled to a family gathering at an unconfirmed location, where 14 of them stayed in a five-bedroom, two-bathroom house for between eight and 25 days.

The attendees ranged in age from 9 to 72 and belonged to five households in four states: Rhode Island, Illinois, Georgia and Massachusetts,

‘I gave up veganism and my health improved instantly’

October 11, 2020

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When people don’t listen to the experts

Dietician Jane Clarke accepts that cutting down on meat can be beneficial for health, but is concerned by veganism’s wholesale promotion by bloggers, rather than health experts.

“It’s great that there is now a much wider range of non-meat sources of protein, but the power of social media and supermarkets to influence our food choices needs to be combined with scientific evidence,” she warns, adding that the trend for highly processed vegan food with lots of sugar, fats and salt added to make them tasty shows “you can easily be unhealthy as a vegan”.

Clarke says the evidence still points to the health benefits of a balanced diet – including a limited amount of animal protein and dairy. Research recently published in the journal BMC Medicine found the lowest mortality rates in those eating up to 80g meat a day. “Calcium-rich foods including

Researchers gave homeless people money and what they did with it might surprise you

October 10, 2020

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A nonprofit organization led a study that explores what might happen if people who are homeless are given financial support and the results may surprise you.

Foundations for Social Change, a Canadian charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, teamed up with the University of British Columbia for a social program, called the New Leaf Project. Researchers gave 7,500 Canadian dollars (approximately $5,717.27) via direct transfer to 50 people who had recently become homeless. The people were free to use the money as they saw fit with no restrictions.

To the surprise of the researchers, most of the recipients used the cash to turn their lives around. “Preliminary results show that on average, those receiving the direct cash payment moved into stable housing faster, maintained a level of financial security and stability over 12 months of follow-up, and increased their spending on food, clothing and rent,” said Foundations for Social

2.5 million veterans know President Trump gave them real, permanent health care choice

September 28, 2020

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In 2018, President Trump signed into law the MISSION Act, fulfilling a promise he made to veterans to put them at the center of their health care decisions and remove bureaucratic roadblocks when they want to get care in their community, not from a VA hospital. This is one of the many ways Trump’s health care plan is providing Americans with better care.

Trump said his goal was to ensure veterans could “get taken care of quickly, effectively and go about their business.”

Today, 2.5 million American veterans have benefited from the realization of that idea. That’s the number of veterans we have referred to private care so far under the MISSION Act, which finally gave them real, permanent choice.

Lately, many in Washington have tried to tell people veterans already had health care “choice.” It’s true that President Barack Obama signed legislation into