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• Antivaxxers Gargling With the Antiseptic Betadine The idea that gargling with the common antiseptic Betadine will prevent COVID-19 is finding a home in corners of social media.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• Army Sets Deadlines for Soldiers to Be Vaccinated Soldiers who don't get vaccinated will be counseled by their superiors and could face administrative or nonjudicial punishment.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• How Plant-Based 'Meat' May Help You and Save the Environment The explosive popularity of plant-based eating is a win-win, achieving the best health results for our bodies and the environment, according to experts, corporations, and plant lovers.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• Alert As Opioid Deaths Climb, Human Trials Begin for Vaccine Researchers are studying a possible bridge to successful recovery: A vaccine that could blunt the drugs' ability to cause harm.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• Major Study Will Investigate Long-Haul COVID-19 The National Institutes of Health has launched an ambitious study to unravel the mysteries of lingering COVID-19 symptoms, which are sometimes referred to as long-haul COVID-19.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• New York Vaccine Mandates Paused for Teachers, Health Workers Two judges issued orders on Tuesday to block New York officials from enforcing vaccine requirements for teachers and healthcare workers.
  WebMD Health News, September 15, 2021
• Survey: 1 in 7 Dropped Friends Over COVID-19 Vaccine Views The survey of 1000 Americans examined why people have ended friendships throughout the pandemic. Overall, about 16% of people had nixed three friendships since March 2020.
  WebMD Health News, September 15, 2021
• 1 in 500 Americans Has Died of COVID-19 As of Tuesday, nearly 664,000 people in the US have died from COVID, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The nation has also reported more COVID-19 cases in 2021 than in 2020.
  WebMD Health News, September 15, 2021
• Plant-Based Diets Gain Steam, Major Companies Getting on Board "In 2020, 57% of all US households purchased plant-based foods (that's over 71 million households), up from 53% in 2019," the association says.
  WebMD Health News, September 15, 2021
• Jeff Bridges Says COVID Made Cancer 'Look Like A Piece of Cake' Actor Jeff Bridges, 71, said Monday that his lymphoma is in remission and that he is feeling better after contracting COVID-19. He was hospitalized for 5 weeks.
  WebMD Health News, September 14, 2021
• Poll: 60% of Voters Support Biden's Vaccine Mandates About 60% of American voters back vaccine mandates for federal employees and private businesses, according to the results of a new poll.
  WebMD Health News, September 14, 2021
• Fauci Supports Vaccine Mandates for Air Travel "I would support that if you want to get on a plane and travel with other people, that you should be vaccinated," Fauci said during the clip.
  WebMD Health News, September 14, 2021
• Want to See What COVID-19 Strain You Have? The Government Says No Every day, more than 140,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with COVID-19. But no matter how curious they are about which variant they are fighting, none of them will find out.
  WebMD Health News, September 14, 2021
• Man Dies After 43 Full ICUs Turn Him Away 'He knew what the vaccine meant for his health and what it meant to staying alive,' said Raven DeMonia, whose father Ray died Sept. 1 after a search for a cardiac ICU bed across three states failed.
  WebMD Health News, September 14, 2021
• FDA Could Authorize COVID Vaccine for Ages 5‒11 in October If Pfizer submits paperwork to the FDA by the end of September, the vaccine could be available for kids around mid-October, Fauci said.
  WebMD Health News, September 13, 2021
• 'Many, Many' More Vaccine Mandates Needed to End Pandemic Millions of Americans still need to get vaccinated, and if health officials and community members can't reach them, then school and business mandates may be necessary.
  WebMD Health News, September 13, 2021
• Hospital Pauses Baby Deliveries as Workers Quit Over Vaccines Lewis County Health System in upstate New York announced Friday that it will pause maternity and delivery services this month after some employees quit rather than get a COVID-19 vaccine.
  WebMD Health News, September 13, 2021
• FDA Warns About Fraudulent Supplements to Treat Diabetes The FDA this week sent warning letters to 10 companies for illegally selling dietary supplements that claim to cure, treat, or prevent diabetes.
  WebMD Health News, September 13, 2021
• Half the Residents in 26 States Fully Vaccinated Although unvaccinated people are a diminishing minority, hospitals across the country are still feeling the strain as beds fill up with patients who haven't yet received their shots.
  WebMD Health News, September 13, 2021
• Varied Reactions on Social Media to Biden's New COVID-19 Action Plan Biden's announcement was met with trending hashtags such as #IwillNOTcomply. But others said they'd be happy to take the jobs of people protesting the mandates.
  WebMD Health News, September 10, 2021