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To find out just how monotonous America can be, we dove deep into the Census Bureau’s 2017 American Community Survey to compile a list of the names of the 29,324 municipalities, boroughs, villages, towns, cities, and Census-designated places (CDPs) in the country to see which occurred the most frequently. Because we’re purists, we excluded those that had qualifiers in their names (for example, when looking at towns named “Franklin,” we did not count “New Franklin,” “East Franklin,” and “Franklinville”)....

During the trial, researchers with Johnson & Johnson randomly assigned 805 participants to receive a high or low dose of the vaccine—which is called Ad26.COV2.S—or a placebo. The researchers studied two age groups during this trial: healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 55 and those 65 and older. According to the study, 90 percent or more of all participants had neutralizing antibodies 29 days after getting vaccinated, and 100 percent had antibodies 57 days after getting their vaccine....

Researchers for this study gathered 214 coronavirus patients recovering from COVID at-home. At random, some subjects were assigned to receive high doses of either zinc, vitamin C, or both supplements for 10 days. The other patients received no supplements and only standard care, like rest, hydration, and fever-reducing medications. However, the study was stopped early because the researchers saw “no significant difference” in the reduction of symptoms from those who received one or two of the supplements compared to those who received neither supplements....

READ THIS NEXT: This Iconic Chain Is Closing Stores, Starting Tomorrow. Amusement parks are all about bringing together crowds of people by their very nature. So when the COVID-19 pandemic first struck over two years ago, once-bustling rides and attractions suddenly went silent as restaurants, shops, and most travel plans were put on hold due to health and safety guidelines. Specifically, theme parks of all sizes found themselves unable to fully reopen as local restrictions in many states mandated crowd size and operating procedures to reduce the risk of spreading the virus....

Reaching zero COVID cases is nearly impossible, The Atlantic reports in a new in-depth article. But the next best thing is COVID becoming an endemic disease, one that still lingers in the community at low levels but doesn’t inflict severe illness often. Once COVID reaches that point, it will be much more manageable. Paul Offit, MD, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told The Atlantic he thinks “the doors will open” when the country sees fewer than 5,000 new cases a day, and fewer than 100 deaths a day....

While some officials are breathing a sigh of relief over the recent downward trend in reported cases, others have expressed concern that the change might actually be the result of the post-holiday surge plateauing. More importantly, the recent spread of highly contagious mutated strains of the virus has many worried that yet another wave of cases will come crashing down within the next few months. “The fact is that the surge that is likely to occur with this new variant from England is going to happen in the next six to 14 weeks....

“Anybody with even the mildest of symptoms needs to get tested because we need to find out if you’re infected and if you’ve been transmitting,” Jha recently told NPR. So, at the first sign of potential COVID symptoms, you should get yourself to a testing site. For those not displaying symptoms, Jha says, getting tested really depends on who you are, the status of your general health, and whether or not you spend time in a high-risk environment....

However, whether TV is an incredible invention with the capacity to inform, educate, and entertain or a dangerous distraction shortening our attention spans and dampening our ability to think creatively is very much a subject of debate. And some people certainly spend much more time testing those notions than others—leading us to wonder how much TV people watch depending on where they live. Lucky for us, Verizon Wireless gathered and analyzed the most recent data available on the daily TV habits of people across the U....

But it turns out, many people aren’t following that advice. According to a Business Insider poll from 2019, only 20 percent of people wash their towel after no more than three uses. In fact, 17 percent admitted that they only wash their towels a few times per month. Read on to find out why you should be changing your towel more often, and for more hygiene habits you should be avoiding, discover the One Body Part You Should Never Shave....

The ACSI Retail and Consumer Shipping Report 2020-2021 is based on interviews with 70,767 customers who were chosen at random and contacted via email between Jan. 13 and Dec. 27, 2020. Respondents were asked to evaluate their recent experiences with large clothing stores across the country, among other retailers. The survey data was used to estimate customer satisfaction based on expectations, perceptions of quality, and perceptions of value, and then each store was scored on a 100-point scale....

At the beginning of 2020, Perkbox Insights, an employee experience platform, conducted a survey of nearly 2,000 people to determine the ultimate dos and don’ts of email behavior. In their findings, they found that more than half of the respondents (53 percent) believed that the worst way to start an email was with no greeting at all. “Email word choice is so important because people judge everything all the time,” says Caio Bersot, a communication specialist at Rank-it....

Read the original article on Best Life. Respondents who said it’s their favorite: 32 percent And if you’re hoping to enjoy some holiday cheer at home, This Is the Single Most Popular Holiday Movie of All Time, Survey Says. Respondents who said it’s their favorite: 25 percent Respondents who said it’s their favorite: 12 percent And for more holiday news delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter....

First, we analyzed the market share of the leading hard seltzer brands using data provided by industry information site The Drinks Business. Then, we factored in the ever-important influence of social media by gathering the number of followers each brand has on Instagram. (Note: Some brands don’t have an Instagram handle unique to their hard seltzer because they are marketed along with other beverages under a flagship brand.) In addition, we included survey results tallied by YouGov on the popularity (who likes the brand) and the fame (who’s heard of the brand) of each seltzer in our study....

New cars don’t normally stay at the dealership for very long in a market like this, but some are really flying off the lot. Research site iSeeCars, which helps users find cars for sale, identified the 20 fastest-selling new cars, via 24/7 Wall St. The company analyzed more than one million new and used cars that were sold in July of this year, and they discovered that, on average, new cars are taking about 35 days to sell....

At the beginning of 2020, Perkbox Insights, an employee experience platform, conducted a survey of nearly 2,000 people to determine the ultimate dos and don’ts of emailing. The researchers found that more than half of the respondents (57 percent) believed that the worst way to end an email was with the sign-off “love.” Kimberly Smith, marketing manager of Clarify Capital who oversees email marketing strategy, says this sign-off tends to “rub recipients the wrong way....

RELATED: Fully Vaccinated People Account for 1 in 4 COVID Cases Here, New CDC Report Says. While some experts predict that cases from the recent surge will peak sometime in October, the highly contagious nature of the Delta variant likely means we won’t see the pandemic really winding down this year. “I don’t think we’re really going to turn the corner until next spring,” Celine Gounder, MD, an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, told The New York Times....

RELATED: If You Live in These States, Watch Out for This Highly Venomous Snake. While the after-effects of flooding can be devastating, leading to everything from serious health issues to structural damage, snake encounters likely aren’t on most people’s list of worries following a natural disaster like a flood—but they should be. According to Maureen Frank, PhD, an assistant professor and extension wildlife specialist at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, snakes are frequently displaced by flooding, which can drive them into damaged buildings and other areas where people might not otherwise assume they would encounter them....

1 “Hey Elon Musk I Just Doodled My Tesla” “Hey Elon Musk I just doodled my Tesla,” the artist captioned a video of his automobile work of art across his social media platforms. In the clip, he is dressed in a doodled ensemble and carrying a doodled briefcase, and walks into a garage where a clean, white Tesla sits. He opens up his briefcase, takes out his supplies, and gets to work, doodling all over the expensive sports car with his black, signature doodle....

The warning comes courtesy of prepared testimonies to Congress from top health officials, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, Anthony Fauci, MD. Experts plan to tell lawmakers on Tuesday that they fear that any spike in COVID-19 cases during flu season could be catastrophic, Bloomberg reports. A portion of their prepared statement reads: The alarm of the potential deadly double hit is being raised because of the amount of time needed to develop and distribute an effective coronavirus vaccine....

According to an in vitro study posted on Dec. 21 that has not been peer-reviewed, researchers from Northwestern University and Utah State University tested the effectiveness of an over-the-counter nasal spray known as Xlear Sinus Care against cultures of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID. Ingredients of the spray include 11 percent xylitol—which is a chemical compound typically used as a sweetener that study authors report has reduced the severity of viral infections—as well as ....