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Studies: Higher stroke risk linked to asymptomatic COVID-19 in younger men and spread of virus in cars, vans

Men under 50 recovering from asymptomatic COVID have double the likelihood of acute ischemic strokes (AIS) compared with men of the same age without COVID infection, according to a study last week in JAMA Network Open.

Eighteen South Asian men were treated in Singapore for AIS a median of 54.5 days after their initial COVID-19 diagnosis. Twelve (67.7%) had no known pre-existing risk factors. While AIS is a known neurologic complication from symptomatic COVID-19, none of these men experienced respiratory symptoms during their infection.

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CDC issues new guidance for wearing masks outdoors.

Pakistan provinces run low on oxygen supplies, ban non-urgent surgeries

India update: Aid is arriving but situation will contionue dire

US to share millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses with other countries

Suggestions on how to reach people who are reluctant to get vaccinated

ANALYSIS: India, the world’s largest vaccine producer struggles to overcome its latest COVID-19 surge—and that’s everyone’s problem.

EU takes legal action against AstraZeneca for vaccine delivery delays

Summer camps: new CDC guidance

Europe starts to reopen but virus patients still overwhelm ICU teams

Official Says E.U. Plans to Let Vaccinated U.S. Tourists Visit This Summer

BRUSSELS — American tourists who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to visit the European Union over the summer, the head of the bloc’s executive body said in an interview with The New York Times on Sunday, more than a year after shutting down nonessential travel from most countries to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

The fast pace of vaccination in the United States, and advanced talks between authorities there and the European Union over how to make vaccine certificates acceptable as proof of immunity for visitors, will enable the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, to recommend a switch in policy that could see trans-Atlantic leisure travel restored.

“The Americans, as far as I can see, use European Medicines Agency-approved vaccines,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said Sunday in an interview with The Times in Brussels. “This will enable free movement and the travel to the European Union.

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Example of how sophisticated air circulation equipment may help resturants revive

US, UK and EU to send aid to India as it stuggles with coronavirus surge

How India’s second wave became the worst COVID-19 surge in the world

How India’s second wave became the worst COVID-19 surge in the world

New Delhi (National Geographic)---   During the past few weeks, Indian social media has been inundated with SOS messages: hospitals tweeting about dwindling oxygen supplies and physicians watching helplessly as patients perish from preventable deaths. A journalist pleading for but denied a hospital bed took to Twitter to log his deteriorating condition till he died.

Overwhelmed crematoria are working round-the-clock to keep up with the pace of bodies; furnaces have melted down from overuse and additional funeral platforms are being built outside. Such are the heartbreaking messages and haunting images that highlight the formidable second wave of the coronavirus pandemic raging through the country.

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New MIT research: Risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors the same at 6ft and 60ft

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