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Two Lines are not Positive in this Covid Test
Imagine the panic of someone performing the BD Veritor home nasal swab test who sees two lines on the result.

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Genetic link between COVID risk and macular-degeneration
Researchers analyzed genetic data from more than 16,000 people with AMD, more than 50,000 people with COVID along with control groups.

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The Omicron Variant is Coming to Get You!
It's time to batten down the hatches.The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is sweeping the country like a tsunami. Daily new cases are higher than they were in spring 2020. And this one is even getting v...

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Dr. Paul Krawitz's letter to the Unvaccinated
Delta is coming, then Epsilon, then Zeta. As the Covid-19 virus is allowed to replicate in the population in unvaccinated people, it will continue to mutate, and thus persist, because that’s how ma...

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94% of VisiVite eye vitamin customers are fully vaccinated against Covid-19
Vitamin Science, manufacturer of VisiVite Professional Supplements for Ocular Health, has announced that a very high percentage of their customers are fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus.

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Kids' vision worsens during COVID lockdown
Eye doctors have noted an increase in children requiring prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses for myopia (near-sightedness) since the 2020 pandemic began.

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Thinking of not getting the Covid Vaccine?
Now that the vaccine is rolling out to health care workers, if you're thinking of winging it and going vaccine-free, hopeful that you won't get Covid, or that it won't affect you badly, you might w...

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Higher risk of COVID complications for people with macular degeneration
The study evaluated 6,396 COVID-19 patients who had been hospitalized at New York - Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center during the initial wave of the pandemic.

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The Results are In - Who Gets to Go First with Vaccine?
Nearly 100 VisiVite customers responded to a survey asking them who should get to go first with the Covid vaccine and would they get the vaccine themselves.