COVID-19 and A Healthier Lifestyle A Thing From Verywell Fit

Multnomah County Health Officer Dr. Jennifer Vines and Communicable Disease Director Kim Toevs speak about regional COVID-19 trends and answers questions about the virus and its spread in the county.

MICRA Webinar 20th July: Our immunological defences staying fit in the COVID world.

Governor Tate Reeves, with other state officials, will hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. to give an update on the state’s continued health and economic response to COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened our health and communities, including some of our most vulnerable populations, such as the elderly..
Have we failed or succeeded in our duty to safeguard the most vulnerable members of our society?
What has the national and global response to the pandemic taught us about our preparedness for such a virus?
How will the pandemic influence our long-term strategy for healthy aging?
These are some of the important questions we examined during Conversations Confronting COVID-19: Aging, the second session in the virtual event series..
Watch the webinar, moderated by Dr. Jane Philpott, to hear a panel of experts from health care, research, and policy-making discuss the lessons learned about Canada’s elderly population and long-term care..
Discover more #QueensuResearch at www.queensu.ca/research

Six months after the WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today (27 Jul) said, “almost 16 million cases have now been reported to WHO, and more than 640,000 deaths. And the pandemic continues to accelerate.”.
Dr Tedros noted that in these past 6 weeks, “the total number of cases has roughly doubled.”.
He recalled that when the PHEIC was declared on 30 January “there were less than 100 cases outside of China, and no deaths.”.
The Emergency Committee of the WHO will be reconvened later this week to re-evaluate the pandemic and advise the Director-General..
The Executive Director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, Michael Ryan, said, “countries that have implemented control measures have suppressed the virus. And when those measures to suppress the virus are lifted, the virus returns. And I think what is clear is that pressure on the virus successfully pushes the numbers down, release pressure on the virus and the numbers can creep back up.”.
Ryan said, “whether we’re dealing with second peaks within the first wave or second waves, in some senses is not the right question to ask. The question to ask is how much pressure do you have on the virus?”.
WHO’s COVID-19 Technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, said, “our new normal includes physical distancing from others. Our new normal includes wearing masks where appropriate. Our new normal includes us knowing where this virus is each and every day, where we live, where we work, where we want to travel. And that’s going to be part of how we move forward with this, finding the balance between keeping the virus transmission low and resuming normal activities.”.
Turning to international travel, Ryan said, “it is possible to identify and to minimize the risks” through policies for the movement of people between one country and another..
Ryan said, “it is tough on people right now because as countries, like everybody else in the world, move through this period of continued uncertainty, it is difficult to get those travel measures absolutely right. You can open up and then have to shut down, and then open up and have to shut down. And some people say, well better to stay shut because that’s more consistent, but it’s also not making any progress. So how do you make progress with opening up national and international economies? How do you do that in a way that’s least risky? But how do you do that in a way that you can pull back if you need to slow down or reverse? And that’s the conundrum we’re facing both in terms of national travel and international travel at the moment.”.
Dr Tedros announced that “new research led by WHO and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine shows that together we have achieved the global target set in 2000 to reduce the prevalence of hepatitis B infections in children under five years of age to less than one percent by 2020.”.
He said, “this landmark achievement means we will dramatically reduce the number of cases of liver cancer and cirrhosis in future generations.”.
According to the latest WHO COVID-19 situation report, 15,785,641 confirmed cases have been reported, resulting in confirmed 640,016 deaths.

For information on COVID-19 from Cleveland Clinic Canada, please visit https://cle.clinic/2wLdIkT.
The COVID pandemic has changed the way many of us live, and especially how we eat. Join Executive Health Physician, Cathy Campbell, MD and Registered Dietitian, Jaclyn Pritchard, BASc, RD as they tackle topics like mindless eating, boosting immunity and getting creative with your pantry items.

Jana Wolff, RD, LDN, Director of Nutrition at the GBMC Comprehensive Obesity Management Program discusses promoting healthy eating habits, during the COVID-19 health crisis. gbmc.org/weightloss