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Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker Test Positive for Covid-19
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey both announced on Sunday they’ve tested positive for covid-19. Both Democratic Senators were vaccinated and both had reportedly received booster doses. Warren and Booker are experiencing mild symptoms from the disease, according to CNN.
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Surgeons in New York Successfully Transplant Pig Kidneys to Two People
Scientists are inching closer to a major breakthrough in organ donation. This week, researchers at New York University announced that they transplanted a pig kidney to a human for the second time with no short-term issues, following their initial success two months earlier. Clinical trials of this technology are likely still a while away, though.
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Many Severe COVID-19 Survivors Go on to Die Within a Year, Study Finds
New research this week finds that people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 often pay a heavy price afterward. The study concluded that these survivors were more than twice as likely to die in the subsequent 12 months compared to people who had tested negative for the virus. This relatively increased risk of death was even higher…
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Starbucks Worker Tests Positive for Hepatitis A, Prompts Mass Vaccination of Customers
Health officials in New Jersey are scrambling to prevent an outbreak of hepatitis A after a Starbucks employee reportedly tested positive for the virus last week. The location where the employee worked was temporarily shut down, and hundreds of people have received a vaccine against the virus, including the employee’s co-workers. Potentially thousands of people…