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With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’

A commentary last summer in the NEJM Catalyst │Innovations in Care Delivery by Thomas B. Sequist, professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School, took a broader look at COVID rates in the Navajo Nation, which has high rates of poverty (43 percent) and a population of 180,000 people across New Mexico,… Read More: With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the… »

Chile has one of the world’s best vaccination rates. Covid is surging there anyway

A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19, to a man at the Medalla Milagrosa Church in Valparaiso, Chile, on April 6, 2021. JAVIER TORRES | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Chile’s vaccination campaign against the coronavirus has been one of the world’s quickest and most extensive, but a recent… Read More: Chile has one of the world’s best vaccination rates. Covid… »

Covid symptoms warning: What does diarrhoea feel like for coronavirus? Signs in your poo

But just because you have diarrhoea, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you coronavirus. In the UK, you only need to get tested for Covid if you develop a high fever, a new, continuous cough, or a loss of smell or taste. You should book a Covid test as soon as you develop any of the… Read More: Covid symptoms warning: What does diarrhoea feel like for coronavirus?… »