These new treatments are for people who already have a baseline of fitness,” she says during a Zoom consultation. “They’re meant to be an additional tool for people who want some extra help in toning and optimizing, and in getting back into their fitness routine.” Unlike the machines that are employed in the sports-medicine field, she explains, the new, cosmetically oriented devices mimic the course of a real, varied workout as much as possible and can alternate between the upper, lower, and oblique abs. I tell Chapas about my noncommittal commitment to Toomey’s training program to convince her that I am at least making an attempt to get back into shape, and she asks me to pull up my shirt. For a brief moment, I feel like the world’s least erotic cam girl. Since I am carrying some “excess fat” in my midsection, the plan is to start with the truSculpt iD, which, over two separate 15-minute sessions, will use radio-frequency technology to slim my abdominal area, then proceed to my flanks; I’ll follow this with the new truSculpt Flex, which employs a separate round of electrical muscle stimulation to tighten those same areas, over four 45-minute-long sessions. “You need to wait at least two weeks to see even a hint of results,” Chapas says, explaining that the real payoff should reveal itself in about two months and will require maintenance every three months. (The effects of the Flex, which runs between $750 and $1,250 dollars per session, fade over time.)
On February 3rd, Anthony Fauci announced that he had seen “no red flags” in the 10,000 pregnant women who had received the vaccine in the U.S. In short, yes, simply because pregnancy itself is designated high risk for the development of severe disease, hospitalization, and even death, says Leftwich. “The MMWR [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] estimated that pregnant women are at three times higher risk for requiring admission to an ICU or requiring a ventilator [because of COVID-19] and that their risk of death is about 70% higher than their nonpregnant peers,” adds Fradin. That risk is compounded for pregnant women of color. The maternal death rate for black mothers is already double the rate of white mothers, and nationally Black and Latina women are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 during pregnancy. So grave are the concerns around COVID-19 and maternal mortality that legislation to address the issue was introduce...
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