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New story in Health from Time: Conservative Activists Return to Michigan’s Capitol as Lawmakers Authorize Lawsuit Challenging Governor’s Powers

(LANSING, Mich.) — The Republican-led Michigan House refused Thursday to extend the state’s coronavirus emergency declaration and voted to authorize a lawsuit challenging Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s authority and actions to combat the pandemic. The step came as hundreds of conservative activists, including some who were openly carrying guns, returned to the Capitol to denounce her stay-at-home order. Whitmer wanted lawmakers to extend her emergency declaration by 28 days. It expires late Thursday. But at the same time, she believes she has other powers to respond to the crisis and does not need a legislatively-approved extension except to ensure that health care workers would continue to have special legal protections. She has said the state of emergency will continue regardless. The declaration is the foundation for Whitmer’s stay-at-home measure, which will remain in effect through May 15, and other directives aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. It h

New story in Health from Time: ‘Is My Dad Alive?’ Outrage Rises as Coronavirus Deaths Mount at a Massachusetts Veterans Home

Desperate for information as coronavirus deaths mounted at the Massachusetts veterans home where her father lived, Susan Kenney drove there with her question written in big letters on her car window: “Is my dad alive?” He was. But not for long. Kenney’s father and 69 others who served their country have died after contracting the virus at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in what has become the deadliest known outbreak at a long-term care facility in the U.S. As state and federal officials investigate what went wrong, outrage is building among family members and workers who say leadership failed to protect the veterans and allowed the virus to spread unchecked. “Somebody screwed up there,” Kenney said, choking back tears. “Somebody needs to be held responsible.” Officials and health care workers at the state-run home are now racing to curb the spread of the disease while tending to the roughly 100 veterans who remain there. Dozens of residents have been moved away, including

New story in Health from Time: Are You Experiencing COVID-19 “Caution Fatigue”? Here’s What It Is, and How to Fight It

As lockdowns drag on and on in many U.S. states, there are worrying signs that people’s resolve to continue social distancing is flagging. An illicit house party in Chicago made headlines this week, as did photos of crowded beaches in Southern California and packed parks in New York City . Anonymized cell-phone data tracked by the University of Maryland also shows more and more people are making non-work-related trips outside as quarantines drag on, and a TIME data analysis found that some states are experiencing new surges in coronavirus cases after initial declines. Jacqueline Gollan, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has coined a name for this phenomenon based on her 15 years of research into depression, anxiety and decision-making : “caution fatigue.” Gollan likens social-distancing motivation to a battery. When lockdowns were first announced, many people were charged with ener

New video by gymvirtual on YouTube

RUTINA DE ABDOMEN | ABDOMINALES EN CASA CON GOOGLE FIT Y ASSISTENTE DE GOOGLE ♥ ♥ LÉEME / DESPLIÉGAME ♥ ♥ Hola a todos, En la web https://ift.tt/39VJREp encontraréis los calendarios de entrenamiento tanto para principiantes como para avanzados. Si quieres conseguir tú transformación en solamente 12 semanas, entra ya en http://www.pgv12.com y elige el PLAN PGV12 que más se adapte a ti. Nuestro lema: YO PUEDO CON TODO Los hashtags: #GymVirtual #YPCT #YoPuedoConTodo #PGV12 ♡♡ ¡SUSCRÍBETE! ♡♡ http://www.youtube.com/user/gymvirtual ................................................................................................................................. ♡♡ PLAN DE ENTRENAMIENTO + NUTRICIÓN 12 SEMANAS♡♡ http://www.pgv12.com ................................................................................................................................. ♡♡¡ECHA UN VISTAZO A NUESTRA TIENDA ONLINE! ♡♡ https://ift.tt/2UnrxNH https://ift.tt/34iH5a4 ..........................................

New video by gymvirtual on YouTube

DIRECTO - FULL BODY CARDIO - EJERCICIOS EN CASA PARA ADELGAZAR ♥ ♥ LÉEME / DESPLIÉGAME ♥ ♥ Hola a todos, hoy os traigo un directo con un entrenamiento de FULL BODY CARDIO donde realizaremos ejercicios de cardio y de fuerza de las diferentes partes del cuerpo (piernas, abdomen, glúteos y brazos). Así que os espero a las 18h española para darlo todo.  Necesitaremos un par de botellas de agua para añadir un poco de resistencia. En la web https://ift.tt/39VJREp encontraréis los calendarios de entrenamiento tanto para principiantes como para avanzados. Si quieres conseguir tú transformación en solamente 12 semanas, entra ya en http://www.pgv12.com y elige el PLAN PGV12 que más se adapte a ti. Nuestro lema: YO PUEDO CON TODO Los hashtags: #GymVirtual #YPCT #YoPuedoConTodo #PGV12 ♡♡ ¡SUSCRÍBETE! ♡♡ http://www.youtube.com/user/gymvirtual ................................................................................................................................. ♡♡ PLAN DE ENTRENAMIENTO +

New video by gymvirtual on YouTube

PRESENTACIÓN DEL CALENDARIO DE MAYO ♥ ♥ LÉEME / DESPLIÉGAME ♥ ♥ Hola a todos, Hoy os traigo la presentación del calendario de mayo. Así que espero que lo completéis todo y que no falléis. En la web https://ift.tt/39VJREp encontraréis los calendarios de entrenamiento tanto para principiantes como para avanzados. Solamente pulsando encima del título del vídeo se abrirá una ventana con el ejercicio (no hace falta buscarlo en YouTube). Eso si, deberéis realizar todas las rutinas que marca ese día. (a veces hay 3 o incluso 4 vídeos) Calendario de mayo 2020: https://ift.tt/3aRGDS0 Reto abdomen: https://ift.tt/2W6eQba Reto monthly change 21 días para reducir el azúcar: https://ift.tt/2VOwvW7 DESCARGABLES GRATUITOS DE MAYO: https://ift.tt/2YkeTTv Recordad que en https://ift.tt/2UnrxNH este mes tenéis 30% de descuento en las toallas y el EBOOK DE RECETAS con el código DESTACADO30. Ebook de recetas: https://ift.tt/2WeprAV Toallas: https://ift.tt/2y4l4AI ¿Cómo funciona el calendario mensual de e

Old Drugs May Find a New Purpose: Fighting the Coronavirus

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New story in Health from Time: Here’s How Scientists and Public-Health Experts Recommend the U.S. Gets Back to ‘Normal’

There is both promise and peril in being a pioneer, and the people of Hokkaido have learned both lessons well over the past few months. After infections of COVID-19 on the Japanese island exploded following its annual winter festival this year, officials in February declared a state of emergency to control the disease. Soon after, new daily cases plummeted, and Hokkaido’s quick action was heralded as a beacon for the rest of Japan to follow. But it wasn’t just infections that dropped; over the next month, agriculture and tourism business also dried up, and Hokkaido’s governor decided to ease social restrictions. However, compliance with limits on social interaction after weeks of sequestering was harder this time around. Within a month, Hokkaido’s new COVID-19 infections jumped by 80%, and the governor had to reinstate lockdown policies. There are similar stories from Singapore, Hong Kong and Germany, and all serve as sobering lessons for the decision-makers in the U.S. w

Just Spit and Wait: New Coronavirus Test Offers Advantages

By BY APOORVA MANDAVILLI from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2SggTZe via IFTTT

New story in Health from Time: I Thought I Could Handle Anything. Then My Husband Got Sick

When my husband began to show symptoms of COVID-19, about a week after we found out one of his coworkers on a building site in New York City had a positive test, I wasn’t particularly worried. He’s a middle-aged, athletic, healthy guy. Our kids live elsewhere. We would just hunker down for a few days and get through it together. After all, the pandemic has forced many people to do work that they have traditionally outsourced. Families are homeschooling , cleaning their own homes, cooking more meals, doing their own home repairs. Even if nobody in their home has fallen ill, people have had to behave more like health workers, by maintaining a hygienic environment , avoiding contamination and wearing protective garb . So, big deal, I would get to be a nurse for a while. (I had symptoms too, but they were much milder.) Admittedly, the talents nursing requires—compassion, patience, the ability to offer comfort—are not my strong suits. My skillset lies more in pestering people

New story in Health from Time: In a Time of Pandemic, TV Doctors Wield Growing Influence. Is That A Good Thing?

When the history of the coronavirus pandemic is written, people will remember the rubbish as much as the real. We’ll remember President Trump musing aloud about injecting Americans with disinfectant ; psychologist Phil McGraw— TV’s Dr. Phil—arguing against the nationwide lockdown on the grounds that people die from cigarettes, automobile accidents and drownings and yet we don’t shut the country down for those; and Dr. Mehmet Oz seeming to advocate that a two or three percentage point increase in mortality rates (which would be the equivalent of some 8-9 million Americans lives lost) wouldn’t be such a bad trade off for reopening schools. But we will remember too the people who have gotten it mostly right: the doctor-journalists who usually play a supporting role in network and cable newscasts and have now become the leading performers. For the better part of two months, both the evening news programs and round-the-clock cable fare have become all coronavirus all the time

New story in Health from Time: 52 People Who Took Part in Wisconsin’s Primary Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus

(MADISON, Wis.) — There are no plans to postpone or otherwise alter a special congressional election in Wisconsin that is less than two weeks away, even though more than 50 people who voted in person or worked the polls during the state’s presidential primary this month have tested positive for COVID-19. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers tried to change the April 7 election so that it would be conducted entirely by mail, but he was blocked by the Republican-led Legislature and conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court. Evers and others had warned that allowing in-person voting would cause a spike in coronavirus cases, but so far the impact appears to be limited. Several of the 52 people who have tested positive and were at the polls on April 7 also reported other ways they may have been exposed to the virus, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said Tuesday. Because of that, it’s unclear if those people contracted the virus at the polls. The 52 positive cases were in people w

New story in Health from Time: Remdesivir Shows Promising Results as a Coronavirus Treatment, According to Drug Manufacturer Gilead

Gilead, a California-based biopharmaceutical company, released two encouraging reports about remdesivir, an experimental drug that is being tested as a COVID-19 treatment. In one statement, the company said that a large study of remdesivir “met its primary endpoint”: meaning, in this case, that the researchers have concluded that hospitalized patients taking the drug appear to improve faster than patients given a placebo. The study is run by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and involves severe patients at multiple centers across the country. Gilead has yet to release specific data from the study but noted in its release that NIAID is expected to provide more detailed results. In another statement, the company released results from one of its two ongoing “SIMPLE” trials. One of these studies is designed to test remdesivir in people with moderate disease, and the other in those with more sev

Gilead Claims ‘Positive Data’ to Come From N.I.H. Trial of Remdesivir

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New story in Health from Time: Singapore Was a Coronavirus Success Story—Until an Outbreak Showed How Vulnerable Workers Can Fall Through the Cracks

Since mid-March, Asadul Alam Asif has watched nervously as Singapore reported more and more COVID-19 cases in migrant workers’ dormitories like the one where he lives. The 28-year-old Bangladeshi technician counted himself lucky each day that nobody was infected in his housing block, where around 1,900 workers reside in cramped conditions that make social distancing impossible. To relieve congestion, Asif’s company rehoused some people, which left half of the 16 bunk-beds in his small room empty. But then, one day last week, seven people in Asif’s dorm tested positive. He received a text message instructing all residents on the fifth and sixth floors—including him—not to leave their rooms. “All of us slept very late that night, like 1 or 2 a.m.,” he told TIME by phone. “We were all so worried.” Asif is one of the more than 200,000 foreign workers living in Singapore’s dormitories, where often 10 to 20 men are packed into a single room. Built to house the workers w