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Breaking The Winter Blues & More: Can Drinking Hot Cocoa Make Your Brain Smarter & Healthier?

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Breaking The Winter Blues & More: Can Drinking Hot Cocoa Make Your Brain Smarter & Healthier?
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Accidentally Brainy: Can Drinking Cocoa Make You Smarter?:
So while Winter is still here, let’s take a short break from our nearly year-long run of coronavirus coverage.

One of the great things that every season brings us is the food and drink that is traditional to it.

And the interesting questions of why we’ve been doing it that way for so long.

One of the best culinary traditions we have from Wintertime is: Drinking Hot Cocoa!

It turns out that depending on what kind you can get, you might be doing yourself a huge favor; and not just your taste buds…

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Getting The COVID Vaccine Might Not Make You Completely Safe Until July, So Keep Wearing Your Mask

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Getting The COVID Vaccine Might Not Make You Completely Safe Until July, So Keep Wearing Your Mask
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Getting Vaccinated For COVID. We’re Not Safe Until Everyone Is:
So the world has been gripped by the Coronavirus pandemic for almost a year now.

And through that time, we’ve mostly learned to follow the right health-safety practices that protect other people according to the CDC.

By some kind of miracle, we got 2 COVID vaccines in just over 8 months, and 2 more on-deck shortly thereafter.

Even better, people are starting to get vaccinated in increasing numbers and case-counts are falling for the moment.

But even with people getting their shots, another spectre may be popping-up…

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The New COVID Variants: US Daily Cases Are Trailing-Off, But Only For The Moment…

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The New COVID Variants: US Daily Cases Are Trailing-Off, But Only For The Moment…
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US Cases Down Only For Now. New Covid Variants Crossing Borders:
So for the first time in awhile, the new cases of COVID in the US look like they’re trailing off.

We’re also very fortunate, because there are now 3 accepted vaccines with at-least a 4th on-deck soon.

But, let’s try to keep the celebration short.

Because even though our daily-case waves are cresting and breaking,

International disease-researchers are finding ones of a different-type that could accelerate the pandemic in multiple-dimensions…

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The COVID-19 Vaccine: What Does It Do To Your Body? ASAPScience Answers!

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The COVID-19 Vaccine: What Does It Do To Your Body? ASAPScience Answers!


Now That We Have It, What Does The COVID Vaccine Do?
With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the first questions was, “What does this thing do to you?”

SCIENCE! performed a miracle with 3 vaccines released in less than 1 year,

So the next question is, “What the hell is the vaccine going to do to me?”

This is a good question, as all entries use a technique different from that of normal vaccines, and might seem a little scary at first.

So ASAPScience dug into exactly what the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines do and how they work…

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Remdesivir Vs. COVID: Encouraging Developments And A Very Strange Case Show It’s A Viable Fix

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Remdesivir Vs. COVID: Encouraging Developments And A Very Strange Case Show It’s A Viable Fix
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Remdesivir For COVID-19, A Strange Case Illustrates Potential Fix:
So one of the biggest problems with the Coronavirus pandemic is the lack of work done ahead of time.

As Dr. Michael Osterholm warned us earlier in the year, a vaccine could have been started 16+ years ago during the SARS outbreak.

Governments continued to ignore the threat even when the next big version of COVID came along in MERS.

Well a strange case just gave us a huge data point for one of the few treatments we have that’s a left-over from a previous virus problem…

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New Coronavirus Waves Coming Even With Vaccine Imminent, Don’t Let Your Guard Down. Winter Is Coming!

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New Coronavirus Waves Coming Even With Vaccine Imminent, Don’t Let Your Guard Down. Winter Is Coming!
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New Coronavirus Waves. Two Vaccines Means We’re Saved, Right?:
Now that we have two coronavirus vaccines, and possibly a third if AstraZeneca can get their data straight,

You’d think that the worst is now behind us, and that we can all relax.

But that’s just not true because carriers are still spreading the disease.

Or even people who have mild symptoms they don’t recognize and then turn into non-ironic “Karen”-style reviews of scented-candles!

Because especially for this pandemic, as the saying goes: things will still get worse before they get better…

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Coronavirus Pandemic Got You Sitting All Day? !SCIENCE! Figures Out How To Offset The Damage To Your Health

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Coronavirus Pandemic Got You Sitting All Day? !SCIENCE! Figures Out How To Offset The Damage To Your Health
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Social Isolation From The Pandemic Makes Sitting Damage More Likely:
So the coronavirus pandemic has affected us all in many ways.

From self-quarantine & isolation, to social-distancing & facemasks,

It’s changed a lot about life all over the world.

And although we’ve done a good job of adapting, things are still weird.

One of the stranger things we’re faced with is a product of that isolation and also remote work.

But luckily enough, science has found a solution to the health-destroying effects of long-term sitting…

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Pfizer & BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine. A New Hope. 90% Effective, Coming Soon To A Medical Theater Near You?

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Pfizer & BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine. A New Hope. 90% Effective, Coming Soon To A Medical Theater Near You?
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Pfizer’s Coronavirus Vaccine. A New Hope, With Some Caveats:
So we got our miracle! A Coronavirus vaccine!

What this constitutes in medicine really is kind of amazing.

Even the incredible work done on Ebola was based on elements that had been in the pipeline for years, so this work is like bottled-lightning!

There would have been absolutely nobody in March of this year who guessed a working vaccine by year’s end would be possible or even likely.

But here we are, and although more good news is coming, we are in the phase Tom Petty once said was the hardest part. Waiting…

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