While Fauci was on CNBC’s Healthy Returns on Dec. 16, Meg Tirrell asked him about some of the myths about the vaccine that have been going around. Read on for the truth behind four of the most common vaccine misconceptions, and for those who are still feeling skeptical, If You’re Doubting the COVID Vaccine, Dr. Fauci Has a Message for You. When Tirrell asked Fauci if you could get COVID from the coronavirus vaccine, citing the common misconception that you can get the flu from the flu vaccine, Fauci debunked the possibility swiftly....

Fauci had a plain message for anyone who fell into this demographic, suggesting that they are the next priority. “We’re talking about the next level of people 16-64 who have underlying conditions, [they] are going to be the next group that are going to be on the line for the queue of getting vaccinated,” he told Lemon. “That should be quite soon.” Read on for more from Fauci on who’s falling behind with vaccinations, and for more vaccine news, check out Dr....

RELATED: Dr. Fauci Warns Vaccinated People Not to Do This as Omicron Spreads. During a Dec. 29 interview on CNBC’s Closing Bell, top White House COVID adviser Anthony Fauci, MD, discussed the current Omicron wave in the U.S., giving his thoughts on when it might start to come down. According to the infectious disease expert, we could be about a month away from the peak. “I would imagine, given the size of our country and the diversity of vaccination versus not vaccination, that it likely will be more than a couple of weeks, probably by the end of January, I would think,” Fauci said....

Read the original article on Best Life. Thanks to the release of an effective vaccine, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director now believes that a more clear timeline of what’s to come with the coronavirus is starting to unfold. And while he’s previously warned that simply getting inoculated doesn’t mean you can immediately toss your PPE, getting enough of the population vaccinated will effectively bring about the end of the health guidelines we currently have to follow....

Thankfully, there are measures you can take to keep your living room COVID-free. In a recent interview, the nation’s top immunologist, Anthony Fauci, MD, endorsed purchasing one product to stop COVID from spreading indoors. He recommended high-efficiency particulate air systems—also known as HEPA filters—which remove COVID particles from the air. And for more Fauci news, check out Dr. Fauci Just Debunked the 4 Biggest Myths About the COVID Vaccine. Fauci offered this advice while speaking with Maurine Knighton, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, about the future of performing arts during the pandemic....

RELATED: Dr. Fauci Warns Vaccinated People It’s “Absolutely Critical” to Do This Now. Throughout the pandemic, the concept of “herd immunity” was discussed as a possible way to protect the population by lowering community circulation levels. Herd immunity is achieved when a certain percentage of the population becomes immune following vaccination or natural infection—leaving the virus with nowhere to go. The term was a source of controversy at the height of the pandemic, with some health officials and experts encouraging the idea of herd immunity as a way to return to normal, MarketWatch reported....

When this complex system, known as the endocrine system, is firing on all cylinders, the right amounts of hormones are released at the right time, so our organs, muscles, and tissues receive exactly what they need, when they need it, the experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine explain. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take much to throw this whole operation into disarray. Common culprits include stress, changes in diet or exercise, various medications, or inadequate sleep....

After following a cohort of 100,902 study subjects over the course of roughly seven years, the study found that habitual tea consumption was linked with “more healthy years of life and longer life expectancy,” a press release for the study explained. In particular, regular tea consumption—defined as habitually drinking tea three times per week or more—was found to be associated with lower risks of cardiovascular disease. When compared with those who drank tea infrequently or never, habitual tea drinkers had a 20 percent lower risk of incident heart disease and stroke, 22 percent lower risk of fatal heart disease and stroke, and 15 percent lower risk of death from other causes....

A team of researchers from Edith Cowan University in Australia set out to investigate the effects of eating a diet high in nitrate-rich vegetables, including dark, leafy greens such as lettuce, cabbage, kale, spinach, collard greens, and broccoli. The team analyzed diet data from over 50,000 Danish citizens over the course of 23 years, finding that those whose diets included regular intake of leafy greens were 12 to 26 percent less likely to develop heart disease later in life—even when consumed in smaller amounts....

RELATED: If You See This at a Barbecue, Don’t Eat It, USDA Says in New Warning. If you think cooking a steak until it’s nearly blackened is practically a crime, your aversion to well-done meat may actually be protecting your health. According to a 2009 review of research published in the journal Nutrition and Cancer, cooked meats contain heterocyclic amines (HCAs), compounds that have been linked to breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers....

RELATED: The One Thing You Should Never Put in Your Washing Machine, Experts Warn. Using essential oils may have once seemed a little woo woo, but these days you don’t have to be a New Age mystic to depend on the aromatic plant-derived liquids for a multitude of things. Of course, they have long been used to scent different foods and products, but the current version we think of comes in a little bottle—you may even know someone who sells them or have a few of your own sitting in your medicine cabinet....

READ THIS NEXT: Walmart and Dollar General Are Under Fire for Doing This to Customers. On Feb. 18, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed that it had been investigating a Family Dollar distribution facility in West Memphis, Arkansas, since January because of a consumer complaint. According to the agency, its inspection revealed a number of unsafe and unsanitary conditions, including a major rodent infestation. “Specifically, during this inspection we observed rodent evidence, including live rodents, dead rodents of various states of decay, rodent excreta pellets (REPs), gnawings, nesting, and odors indicative of rodents throughout the entirety of your facility including areas where human food is routinely stored,” the FDA wrote in a report issued to the facility....

Four were captured in recent weeks, but the rest continue to roam through the snowy fields of Quebec, where some residents consider them a menace and others consider them heroes. Read on to find out where the hunt now stands and why activists and one Canadian politician says we could learn something from the escaped cows. 1 Great Escape Leads to Red Tape The cows escaped from a farm in Saint-Barnabé after being spooked by a thunderstorm in July when they jumped a fence and fled into the woods....

One particular risk factor for dementia is something you may not even realize you’re doing at night. Experts warn that if you do this regularly in your 50s and 60s, your risk of dementia later in life skyrockets by 30 percent. Read on to learn which nightly routine could be putting you at heightened risk, and why so much hinges on this one health habit. READ THIS NEXT: Drinking This Popular Beverage Slashes Dementia Risk, New Study Says....

RELATED: Doing This in the Shower Is Making You Lose Your Hair, Experts Warn. You might be thinking that Hawn uses an expensive moisturizer or gold-flaked eye cream to look forever young but her go-to is far more accessible: All you need to do is visit your local grocery store’s salad dressing aisle. “There are great creams out there. Creams with this and creams with that, but I ingest oil,” she told PopSugar, “The skin is our biggest organ, and as you get older, you get drier....

Read on to see what Berry shared in honor of the actor, along with tributes from other stars who were close to her. And for another heartbreaking tribute to an actor who died of the same disease, check out The Emotional Chadwick Boseman Tribute at the MTV Movie Awards. Read the original article on Best Life. On Monday, the news of Desselle’s Reid death was shared in a post on her Instagram page....

Fans of the books and the movies have been visiting the shrine and leaving mementos—specifically old socks—and rocks with messages written on them with colored markers. Here’s why the fans are leaving such unusual items and why the local government is telling them to stop. 1 Dobby’s Grave Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows parts I and II were filmed at Freshwater West beach, Wales, a protected conservation area. The character of Dobby, a house elf who becomes free after being accidentally given a pair of old socks, dies at the end of part I and is buried on a dune overlooking the beach....

Read the original article on Best Life. Many officials are worried about the U.K. variant because it’s more transmissible than the current dominant COVID-19 strain, spreading up to 70 percent more easily. The South Africa COVID strain, however, may be even worse in this aspect. British Health Secretary Matt Hancock told ITV News that the South Africa variant “seems even more easy to transmit than the new variant we’ve seen here [in the U....

This weekend was really the perfect storm of problematic actions coming back from the past. The Super Bowl always serves as a reminder of what happened when Timberlake and Jackson performed together and her breast was exposed on live television. But, this weekend also marked the release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears. The film focuses on Spears’ conservatorship, but also delves into the aftermath of Spears’ relationship with Timberlake back in the early ’00s....

READ THIS NEXT: Cancer Survivor Rita Wilson Says She Stopped Eating This After Her Diagnosis. On Jan. 2, Navratilova released a statement announcing that she had recently been diagnosed with stage 1 throat and breast cancer. In a press release, she explained that she discovered the first signs of the disease while on the road for work. “Martina noticed an enlarged lymph node in her neck during the [Women’s Tennis Association] WTA finals in Fort Worth....