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Urgent warning as study finds vaping could put healthy young people at higher risk of developing a severe disease
VAPING puts people at a higher risk of developing severe Covid, a study has revealed.
Healthy, young e-cigarette users who caught the disease were found to have increased lung inflammation, which could cause lingering cardio-vascular complications.
Vaping puts people at a higher risk of developing severe Covid, a study has revealed[/caption]
The findings are from a US study of 45 non-smokers, 30 vapers and 29 tobacco smokers.
The vapers and smokers were found to have higher levels of blood plasma proteins that the virus needed to survive.
Researcher Dr Theodoros Kelesidis said: “The key message is that smoking is the worst, but vaping is not innocent.
“This has been shown for many lung diseases but not for Covid.
“It was a quite interesting and novel finding that vaping changed the levels of key proteins that the virus uses to replicate.”
Dr Kelesidis added: “E-cigarette vapers may be at higher risk than non-smokers of developing infections and inflammatory disorders of the lungs.
“Electronic cigarettes are not harmless and should be used for only the shortest time possible in smoking cessation, and not at all by non-smokers.”
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Scary video emerges after Hawaiian Airlines flight experiences severe turbulence with 36 injured including head injuries
AT least 36 people have been injured after a plane hit turbulence on a flight from Phoenix to Hawaii.
A video from the incident has emerged from a Twitter user who appears to document the damage to the plane’s ceiling after the turbulence.
Photos show a crack in the plane’s ceiling[/caption]
A twitter user posted video showing damage to the ceiling[/caption]
People flew out of seats, and one even hit the ceiling, according to Hawaii News Now
Passenger Kaylee Reyes told the network her mother had not buckled her seatbelt, causing her to fly up and crash into the ceiling as the turbulence came out of “nowhere.”
A Twitter user, who posted video of the event, but was not seriously injured, also saw people hit the ceiling.
They said that some people in the back of the plane had broken their necks, and were bleeding from their head and face.
“i hope they all recover soon as this was a very traumatic event,” they wrote.
A spokesperson for Honolulu Emergency Medical Services told The U.S. Sun 11 of those injured were seriously hurt following the Hawaiian Airlines flight.
The turbulence occurred 30 minutes outside of Honolulu.
A total of 20 passengers were taken to the hospital, and nine are in stable condition.
They were treated in multiple emergency rooms.
One injured passenger is only 14 months old.
Firefighters, ambulance crews, and the federal Aircraft Rescue Firefighting responded at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport at 11:06 a.m Sunday.
The spokesperson referred to the incident as a “mass casualty emergency.”
Hawaiian Airlines spokesperson Alex Da Silva told the Star Advertiser the flight was carrying 278 passengers and 10 crewmembers.
He said the flight landed safely at 10:50a.m.
There was a storm and high winds prior to the incident.
The U.S. Sun reached out to the airline for a comment.
Some patients were taken to The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu[/caption]