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In a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, authors from Kaiser Permanente, the Permanente Medical Group, the University of California San Francisco and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said that from 2019 to 2020 the estimated age-adjusted mortality rate increased by 15.9%, largely due to COVID-19 mortality. Rates of stroke and heart disease also increased by 4.3% and 6.4%, respectively.

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers – the company announced Wednesday. Vaccinating the littlest “has been somewhat of a moving target over the last couple months,” Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, who is helping study Moderna’s pediatric doses.

Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Vaccinating the littlest “has been somewhat of a moving target over the last couple months,” said Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, who is helping study Moderna’s pediatric doses.

According to Moderna, the company’s COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, who is helping study Moderna’s pediatric doses, shared “There’s still, I think, a lingering urgency to try to get that [vaccinating young children] done as soon as possible.”

Permanently moving to daylight-saving time is likely to cause more harm than good when it comes to our health, according to sleep scientists. Because a human’s internal clock is tied to the sun, when the clock springs forward, internal clocks don’t change. According to Phyllis Zee, professor of neurology and director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, “Of the three choices – permanent daylight-saving time, permanent standard time or where we are now, which is switching between the two – I think permanent DST is the worst solution”

A COVID-19 vaccine for babies and young children may finally be available after Moderna released data showing its vaccine is safe and effective in kids ages 6 months to 6 years. Vaccinating the youngest “has been somewhat of a moving target over the last couple months,” said Dr. Bill Muller of Northwestern University, an investigator in Moderna’s pediatric studies. “There’s still, I think, a lingering urgency to try to get that done as soon as possible.”

Northwestern Medicines’ Lake Forest Hospital has received a series of honors for a number of programs, specifically maternity care and patient safety.

BA.2, known as the “stealth omicron”, is a subvariant of omicron. According to several health experts, BA.2 seems to be more transmissible than omicron. Northwestern’s Dr. Michael Angarone, an associate professor of medicine in infectious diseases, said the increased transmissibility could be strong in close contacts of those infected, however it is still to early to know for sure.

The BA.2 variant, also known as “stealth omicron,” a more transmissible version of the omicron variant, is beginning to grow in the U.S. Northwestern Medicine’s Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution said the subvariant was found in a Chicago resident in January. Based on how quickly new variants have arisen, some experts suggest the next one could arrive as early as May.

For some, COVID-19 has been mostly an inconvenience; for others, the losses include family, friends or neighbors. Mercedes Carnethon,
vice chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern University said, “These experiences are influencing quite significantly the readiness to ‘move on’ from the pandemic.”