JAMA Pediatrics recently retracted a research letter it published that concluded mask wearing among children was dangerous to their health. The study suggested that mask wearing exposed children to dangerous levels of carbon dioxide. JAMA…

Residents of Los Angeles County will once again need to mask up indoors—whether they are vaccinated or not—as of July 17.  Since July 9, the county has averaged approximately 1,000 new COVID-19 cases a day, a significant uptick that…

Pfizer and Moderna have been testing their COVID-19 vaccines on children younger than 12 since March, and data should be available in September. The first data set will be on children ages 6 to 11. The United States Food and Drug…

The United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, cited health misinformation as a significant threat to the health and safety of all Americans. The physician and vice admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps noted…

The American Dental Association (ADA) has added new information to its Update to Office Procedures During COVID-19 to help oral health professionals make informed decisions regarding the safe practice of dental care during the ongoing…

The deadlines for dental practices that received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to apply for loan forgiveness range from July to September 2021. Deadlines are assigned based on when the practice initially received the funds. For…

More than 30 million Americans have recovered from COVID-19 infection and now the bills are coming due. According to new research conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, individuals who recovered from COVID-19 infection, experienced a reduction…

While the use of a breathalyzer to determine an individual’s blood alcohol level is common knowledge, what about utilizing such a device to test someone for COVID-19? Researchers around the world—from the Netherlands to Singapore to the…

In the first ever known case of a person contracting two strains at the same time, a Belgian woman in her 90s came down with both the Alpha and Beta variants of COVID-19 in March, and later died due to COVID-19 illness. Her case…

Japanese researchers have discovered that the presence of diabetes seems to be the most significant indicator of rapidly progressing COVID-19 disease. The study included more than 100 patients who were hospitalized for mild COVID-19…