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The study, which was published on Nov. 10, examined policies across multiple counties across the country—including stay-at-home orders, mask mandates, capacity limits on gatherings, and closing schools, parks, and different kinds of businesses—to see which prevented or failed to prevent COVID fatalities from March through November. While closures were intended to stop the spread of the virus, the study identified several businesses that had the opposite effect when shut down....

Company founder Yakaterina Preobrazhenskaya introduced the new venture on Instagram last week. “There is a possibility that after this procedure [the client] will discover new talents, psychic abilities or see success in business,” she told the Govorit Moskva radio station. On Instagram, the entrepreneur described the service as a “true symbol of fighting for yourself and your own happy future.” Read on to find out more about what that service entails, and why it’s actually nothing new....

RELATED: This Product Sold at Home Depot and Costco Has Been Recalled After a Death. On Jan. 11, the FDA announced that Poppies International was expanding a recent recall on cream puffs it manufactures and distributes to stores, including Costco. The affected dessert items now include Taste of Inspirations 30-count Crème Puffs that were distributed to Hannaford supermarkets in New York. The products were available for sale Dec. 16 through 23, 2021, and are labeled with UPC 725439995979, lot code L2I5021, and a best-by date of June 8, 2023....

The Jungle Cruise attraction made its Disneyland debut in 1955 and then opened in Disney World in 1971. Located in Adventureland, it’s a river boat ride enhanced by animatronic displays and a humorous live commentary by the boat’s “skipper.” The scenes that guests are treated to in their journey, which is designed to mimic waterways in South America, Africa, and Asia, include depictions of native people that have been called racist....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Shop at Dollar General, Prepare for This Major Closure, as of July 18. Dollar General has faced its fair share of backlash, including a recent report which found that some products sold at the retailer were potentially hazardous to customers. A total of 12 Dollar General products were found to have toxic chemicals when tested by the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform and Coming Clean, Inc....

While speaking with David Ignatius, a columnist for The Washington Post, in a Feb. 2 interview for Washington Post Live, Fauci said the N95 is “the best type of mask to use” in response to one viewer’s question: “Why are N95 masks—or the equivalent for non-hospital use—why are they still so hard to find?” “Well, that’s a good point in that originally, when we were talking about masks, you didn’t want to take them out of the availability of the people who really needed them, namely the people who were being health care providers,” said Fauci....

RELATED: Dr. Fauci Warns Vaccinated People It’s “Absolutely Critical” to Do This Now. Spring is underway and summer is certainly on the horizon, but virus experts are wary of chillier weather—what is commonly referred to as “cold and flu season”—and how COVID will come into play. In an April 6 conversation for Bloomberg’s Balance of Power podcast, top White House COVID advisor Anthony Fauci, MD, spoke with host David Westin on the future of the pandemic....

During an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Feb. 17, Fauci discussed the danger of the more transmissible U.K. COVID variant that’s now spreading quickly throughout the U.S. The top infectious disease expert said that we have two highly effective tools to stop the mutated version of the virus from causing a surge. “One [is] to continue to do the kinds of public health interventions that we talk about all the time,” he said....

“We started to come down and then we plateaued at a level that was really quite high—about 20,000 infections a day,” Fauci said, as reported by Reuters. “Then as we started to reopen, we’re seeing the surges that we’re seeing today as we speak in California, your own state, in Arizona, in Texas, in Florida, and several other states.” Fauci has recently mentioned the heterogeneity of the United States and the specific challenges brought about by regional differences within the country in terms of containing the spread of the coronavirus....

“The timetable you suggested of getting into 2021, well into the year, then I can think with a successful vaccine—if we could vaccinate the overwhelming majority of the population—we could start talking about real normality again,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) told CNN’s David Axelrod. “But it is going to be a gradual process.“ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Fauci revealed that the companies currently working on coronavirus vaccines have told him they “would have doses to the tunes of tens of millions early in the year, and up to hundreds of millions as we get well into 2021....

RELATED: The CDC Just Changed One of Its Most Controversial Guidelines. “I think so,” Fauci said when Stephanopoulos asked point-blank if it’s time to start lifting indoor mask mandates. “You’re going to probably be seeing that as we go along and as more people get vaccinated,” Fauci said. “The CDC will be, you know, almost in real time, George, updating their recommendations and their guidelines.” Right now, more than 40 percent of people over 18 in the U....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren reminded Fauci, that back in March, the ostensible frontman for the White House Coronavirus Task Force said he “expected there to be between 100,000 and 200,000 coronavirus deaths and millions of infections in the U.S.” Then, fast forward to today, Warren said, and “here we are at the end of June and we have already seen 126,000 deaths with infection rates rising rapidly.” She then asked Fauci, based on what you are seeing now, “how many COVID-19 deaths and infections should America expect before this is all over?...

Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company ensured with protecting and preserving the author’s legacy, announced on Mar. 2 that they will “cease publication and licensing” on six Dr. Seuss books. This includes Seuss’ first children’s book published in 1937, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, as well as If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer. And for another big change happening due to recent reckonings, check out “The Simpsons” Is Replacing the Actor Behind This Beloved Character....

RELATED: Two-Time Cancer Survivor Kathy Bates Warns Others Never to Do This. In September of 2011, the E! News star and her husband, Bill Rancic, decided to pursue in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment to grow their family. As part of the screening process before starting treatment, her doctor recommended she undergo a mammogram. Though she had no family history or symptoms, the scan revealed a mass in her breast that doctors determined was cancerous....

RELATED: Eating This One Thing Can Cut Your Cancer Risk in Half, New Study Says. The latest research comes from a study published on Feb. 8 in the journal PLOS Medicine in which a team of researchers in Norway ran a meta-analysis of the Global Burden of Diseases study. The database from the 2019 investigation tracked 286 causes of death, 369 diseases and injuries, and 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories worldwide, CNN reports....

RELATED: Eating This Dessert Every Day Slashes Heart Disease Risk, Study Shows. The new study, which was published in the journal Nutrients in May, set out to analyze the dietary sources of potassium and the effects that increased consumption could have on hypertension—also known as high blood pressure—and other cardiovascular health concerns. Researchers assembled 30 pre-hypertensive to hypertensive men and women and split them into four groups: One control group ate the typical American diet amount of 2,300 mg of potassium each day, while the other three groups added 1,000 mg of potassium in the form of french fries, or baked, boiled, or pan-cooked potatoes....

RELATED: Eating This Nut Once a Week Slashes Your Heart Disease Risk, Study Says. Many already love yogurt for being an easy, versatile snack you can top with fresh ingredients. But a large study published in the American Journal of Hypertension in 2018 found there may be even more to love, establishing a link between eating two or more servings of yogurt a week and a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease....

READ THIS NEXT: Ex-Goodwill Employee Sends This New Warning to Shoppers. CVS has found itself in hot water more than once over the last month. In late May, several shoppers in one city started protesting the drugstore chain over the news that it was closing a store in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois—forcing customers to have to travel more than two and a half miles to another location for their prescriptions....

Özkiraz told her fellow doctors she specialized in pediatrics—but none of it was true. Here is how reportedly tricked her way into working at the hospital, and how she was found out. 1 High School Graduate Özkiraz accepted a job at the state hospital in Çerkezköy, which is approximately 68 miles from the Turkish capital of Istanbul. Using fake paperwork, Özkiraz claimed to have graduated from Istanbul University’s Çapa Medical School, which was not true....

This week, clips from two high profile interviews the 38-year-old did to promote his book were dropped, offering a hint of what is to come. And now, an insider claims that Harry will majorly lash out at two people in particular: His brother, Prince William, and sister-in-law, Kate Middleton. 1 William Is Attacked in Harry’s Book, Says a Source An insider maintains that despite Prince Harry’s claims that he wants to reconcile with his brother and father, that it is unlikely....