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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing two coronavirus vaccines for emergency use authorization—the earliest of which could be approved on Dec. 1o. And though this means some Americans may be getting vaccinated before Christmas, it doesn’t mean we can throw caution to the wind. Debra Goff, PharmD, an infectious-disease pharmacist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, told Business Insider that things will take some time to return to normal....

RELATED: Walmart Is Making This Major Change Starting Saturday. Have you recently received an email from Walmart about a package you don’t even remember ordering? If so, don’t open it. Bleeping Computer first reported on May 29 that a phishing campaign is underway using Walmart’s name. According to the outlet, some users are receiving emails from “Walmart” that claim there was a delivery issue. The message has a subject line that reads, “Your Package delivery Problem Notification ID#” and the email states that the company cannot deliver your package because of an incorrect mailing address....

READ THIS NEXT: Hailey Bieber Says This Was the First Sign of a Blood Clot in Her Brain. In Jan. 2021, Dr. Dre was hospitalized at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles for a possible brain aneurysm, a condition which occurs when a blood vessel in the brain bulges or balloons. A life-threatening condition, brain aneurysms can rupture, causing bleeding in the brain. While speaking with Dolvett Quince on the Workout the Doubt podcast, Dre opened up about his recovery, the first two weeks of which were spent in the intensive care unit....

During a Feb. 17 interview with CBS This Morning, co-anchor Tony Dokoupil broached the contentious topic of reopening schools. Fauci said that while “teachers should absolutely be priority among those we consider essential personnel,” he thinks that vaccinating every teacher before opening up a school is not possible. “If you are going to say that every single teacher needs to be vaccinated before you get back to school, I believe quite frankly that’s a non-workable situation,” Fauci said....

While being interviewed on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Mar. 4, Fauci was asked by host Joe Scarborough about his reaction to the recent decisions by the governors of Texas and Mississippi to remove statewide mask mandates and restrictions on businesses. “My strong advice to them would be to continue to implement the public health measures,” he said. “Now is not the time to pull back.” And for some guideline changes that could be happening soon, check out The CDC Is About to Announce This Major COVID Guideline Change....

READ THIS NEXT: Dr. Fauci Warns It’s “Critically Important” to Do This Now—Vaccinated or Not. Fauci, who has often been referred to as “the face of the pandemic,” recently tested positive for COVID for the first time ever. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealed his diagnosis in a June 15 press release, as Fauci serves as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is part of the NIH....

The test positivity rate is the percentage of COVID tests that come back positive out of all the tests conducted in a state. On an Oct. 1 episode of the ABC News podcast Start Here, Fauci explained that “everybody wants to be around 1 percent or less” in terms of test positivity rate. He continued, “2 percent, OK; 3 percent… when you get up to 5 [percent], to 10 [percent], you really got a problem....

RELATED: 70 Percent of Hospitalized Omicron Patients Have This in Common. A true end to the COVID pandemic might no longer be in the cards, at least in the traditional sense. During a Dec. 21 interview with CBS Mornings, Fauci discussed the future of the pandemic amid the fast-spreading Omicron variant. According to the infectious disease expert, people in the U.S. will “likely” have to learn to live with the coronavirus, much like they already do with the common cold and flu....

RELATED: Not Doing This Before Bed Could Be Hurting Your Heart, Experts Warn. The latest heart health discovery comes from a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association on March 30, which aimed to better understand the long-term impact avocados could have on cardiovascular disease. Researchers used data from 68,786 women aged 30 to 55 and 41,701 men aged 40 to 75 collected through dietary questionnaires every four years....

RELATED: This Is The Single Best Way to Predict Your Heart Attack Risk, Experts Say. Read the original article on Best Life. The first of the two studies, recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, set out to determine how adopting a long-term diet focused on plant-based foods could affect the development of heart disease later in life. To test their theory, a research team analyzed data from 4,946 adults between the ages of 18 and 30 who were enrolled in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study....

RELATED: Eating This for 2 Months Can Add Years to Your Life, New Study Finds. Devoted fans of frozen yogurt may want to brace themselves for some bad news. A large study conducted in 2017 by Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed a dataset with health and dietary information on more than 48,000 men and 80,000 women that spanned over 25 years. Over the course of the study, 1,036 participants were diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease....

Researchers from Penn State sought to determine the relationship between mushroom consumption and cancer risk, publishing their findings March 16 in the Advances in Nutrition journal. The researchers analyzed more than 19,500 cancer patients by reviewing 17 cancer studies published between 1966 and 2020. According to the new study, people who ate 18 grams of mushrooms every day had a 45 percent lower risk of developing cancer than those who did not eat mushrooms....

In the time since Bewitched ended, Murphy has done a little more acting but has also tried out many other careers in the entertainment business and beyond. Read on to find out more about the now 57-year-old star. Murphy joined Bewitched during its third season and initially shared the role of Tabitha with her twin sister, Diane Murphy. But, after 18 episodes, Murphy began playing the role by herself, because she and Diane were not identical....

Mendes shared the black and white snap of her in an off-the-shoulder dress with the caption, “Went for a run on the beach this morning. No I didn’t. This picture was taken at least 15 years ago. Haven’t seen a beach this year. Haven’t been on a run this year,” plus a couple of black emoji hearts. When one follower commented, “You need to tell Ryan to get you out more,” Mendes responded, “No thank you, I’m good....

Though the show was immediately popular, it rose to new heights of success after the network began airing syndicated reruns following the show’s cancellation in 1974. At the time, Plumb opted out of some of the reprisals that followed in hopes of moving on to juicier roles. Now 63, the child actor has grown her career in unexpected ways—all while maintaining her connection to her Brady Bunch roots. Read on to see Eve Plumb now, and to find out what she’s been up to in the decades since....

RELATED: The CDC Just Gave This Update on Vaccinated People Who Get Omicron. During a Dec. 8 interview with CNN’s Kate Bolduan, White House COVID adviser Anthony Fauci, MD, said that he believes the official definition of “fully vaccinated” in the U.S. will eventually change to include booster shots, especially as a result of the Omicron variant. According to the infectious disease expert, “it’s going to be a matter of when, not if” the additional shot will be required for vaccinated people to keep their fully vaccinated status....

On Jan. 21, Fauci told White House reporters that he had gotten his second vaccine dose two days prior, as tweeted by Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb “I was hoping that I wouldn’t get too knocked out. I did for about 24 hours. Now I’m fine,” he explained. According to Jacobs, Fauci also said he was “a little achy” and “chilly,” but not actually sick from the vaccine. And for more insight from this infectious disease expert, Dr....

RELATED: UPS and FedEx Are Banning These Deliveries, Effective Immediately. Customers can no longer track their FedEx packages with the Deliveries app, The Verge reported on April 11. Listed as an “Editor’s Choice” program in the App Store, Deliveries is a popular app that helps people keep track of all their arriving packages from various services in one place. Junecloud, the company behind Deliveries, recently notified users that they would not be able to access FedEx tracking services on the app as the result of recent actions made by the shipping company....

RELATED: MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes Made Her Debut Almost 30 Years Ago. See Her Now. On July 28, Durst, now 50 years old, shared a photo on his Instagram that might shock ’90s and ’00s kids. In the picture, the singer sports a horseshoe mustache, button-down shirt, and gray hair. The new look is certainly different from Durst’s previous backward-red-hat, baggy-shirt uniform of the early aughts. Mysteriously, the caption of the new Instagram post is “Thinking about you 70....

READ THIS NEXT: Dollar General and Family Dollar Are Closing Stores, Starting Dec. 3. Gap Inc. has been working to bounce back amid financial problems. The company announced in Sept. 2022 that it would be cutting around 500 corporate jobs from its workforce, The Wall Street Journal first reported. According to the newspaper, this move is being made to reduce expenses as Gap struggles with declining sales and profits. “We’ve let our operating costs increase at a faster rate than our sales, and in turn, our profitability,” Bob Martin, Gap’s executive chairman and interim chief executive, wrote in a September memo to employees, per The Wall Street Journal....