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White House infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has urged Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to prevent the new variant, known as Delta or B.1.617, from spreading across the United States. Some Experts have labeled the variant the “worst we’ve seen so far.”
During a Tuesday briefing of the administration’s pandemic response team, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), warned that the recent coronavirus outbreak in the United Kingdom, which imperiled its plans to fully reopen on June 21, could happen in the United States.
Covid vaccines are designed to prevent a disease that has so far killed nearly 3 million worldwide. No pharmaceutical, however, is completely benign. The goal is to ensure the benefits outweigh the risks. So far, the vaccines have been connected to a relatively small number of cases of blood clots and serious, but treatable allergic reactions called anaphylaxis. Other concerns about vaccinations causing temporary facial paralysis, heart inflammation and otherwise unexplained deaths have ei
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An app that can detect early signs of COVID-19 is currently being tried out on border workers in New Zealand.
The country’s health ministry is organising the month-long trial of the ëlarm app, which is installed in wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers.
WHAT IT DOES
ëlarm, which is developed by Auckland-based Datamine, uses AI to check physiological changes in users before they experience symptoms of the coronavirus. It calculates their wellness risk score every four hours, based on variations from their personalised health baseline. The changes are categorised into four levels: normal; slightly; moderately; and highly elevated, which are then communicated via e-mail and alerts.