Defunding medical research is happening across the country, where doctors and medical researchers are coming up with discoveries for the treatment of cancer, dementia, heart disease, Parkinson’s, and diabetes, diseases that touch almost every American family.…
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“The benefits of the FDA’s proposed rule are unprecedented,” Kristen Richardson, director of Tobacco Free Communities: Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie says. “Once the nicotine level of cigarettes and other tobacco products drops to a level low enough to no longer create or sustain addiction, they would lose their ability to hook most people into dependence.”…
Still, Many Won’t Take Vaccination By MIKE FORSTER ROTHBART & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com With 39.5 percent, or 23,588 of our Otsego County neighbors, having received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, the focus is turning to people who are adamant about doing without. About 25 percent of us, 16,242, have completed the two shot-cycle. (Tuesday, April 13, Governor Cuomo suspended use of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson option.) “Anybody who’s refusing to get a vaccine…
LETTER from CHARLES HYMAN It Looks Like It’s Only Going To Get Better It’s time for hope. The fact that we now have two incredibly effective COVID vaccines approved by the FDA (with more on the way) is amazing and heartening to me. Those responsible for that speedy development with such fantastic efficacy deserve high praise, and our thanks. Let’s talk about what comes next. • Understanding the Shot The remarkable speed of development of these COVID vaccines makes some…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG If Offered J&J Vaccine, Take It, Stop 3rd Wave This past Sunday the Director of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) approved the use of the COVID-vaccine produced by Janssen/Johnson & Johnson. The day before the FDA determined that the vaccine was safe and effective for the prevention of COVID-19 and gave it an EUA (emergency use authorization). On Monday, the state Task Force unanimously recommended its use. The entire current inventory of 3.9…
