Coronavirus vaccinations could be offered to all adults as soon as January 31 after healthcare workers and the most vulnerable start receiving the jabs early next month, according to leaked NHS reports. Providing everything goes to plan, those over 80 may be next in line to get a jab, with mid-December reportedly earmarked for starting … Read more
Children develop weaker antibodies to coronavirus than adults do, new research suggests. Scientists at Columbia University believe that children actually recover so quickly that they typically don’t get seriously ill, or develop a particularly significant reservoir of antibodies for COVID-19. But that may not mean that kids are any more vulnerable to reinfection than adults … Read more
The youngest American adults are by far the worst at taking precautions to help reduce the spread of coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and PRevention (CDC) reports. An average of 20 percent of people between ages 18 and 29 said they don’t wear a face mask between May and June, and about 60 percent … Read more
Going to the dentist is a miserable chore which is universally disliked, and we are often told we should go twice a year to keep our teeth and gums in good condition. However, a new study has found that healthy adults can get away with going just once every two years. UK researchers claim routine … Read more
England’s coronavirus lockdown led to almost 12million adults doing almost no exercise, according to research. The Sport England Active Lives survey of 190,000 people suggests 30 per cent of the adult population were ‘inactive’ between March and May. The proportion of people who said they did less than half an hour activity a week rose … Read more
An increasing trend of ‘boomerang’ young adults moving back in with their parents is here to stay, according to a study. Researchers found that nearly two-thirds of childless single adults aged 20-34 in the UK have either never left home or had to move back in because of a precarious jobs market, sky-high rents, low … Read more
Nearly 30% of college-age Americans say they do NOT drink and the number of young adults abusing alcohol has fallen by nearly half over the last two decades, study finds Abstinence from alcohol among adults aged 18 to 22 in college who abstained from alcohol increased from 20% to 28% from 2002 to 2018 The number of … Read more
Adults CAN get the life-threatening inflammation condition linked to COVID-19 that has killed 20 US children, CDC report reveals – and at least two people over 18 have died of the Kawasaki-like disease Earlier this year, cases began appearing of a mysterious inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) linked to coronavirus exposure Since June 2020, at … Read more
Nearly 15% of US adults are uninsured: Two-thirds of under-30s and more than 80% of older adults who don’t have health care say they can’t afford it, CDC report finds A new CDC report found that 14.5% of adults between ages 18 and 64 were uninsured in 2019 – s one-third drop from 20.4% in … Read more
US child deaths from coronavirus remain low at 100 as study reveals kids are HALF as likely to be infected as adults New research from the UK’s institute of Child Health found that 0.56 children catch coronavirus from an infected person for every one adult globally US data shows that only about 100 American children … Read more