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Weekly Health Quiz: Caregiving, Coronavirus Vaccine and Foods for Erectile Dysfunction
ByTOBY BILANOWDEC. 4, 2020

About what percentage of American adults are caregivers, providing unpaid support for an adult or child who has special needs?
8.2 percent
12.8 percent
16.3 percent
21.3 percent
Men tended to have lower rates of erectile dysfunction when they ate diets high in all of the following foodsexcept:
Fruits
Vegetables
Red meat
Fish
To help counter the life-shortening effects of excessive sitting, researchers calculated that you'd need to do at least how many minutes of brisk walking or other moderate exercise a day?
11 minutes
35 minutes
52 minutes
74 minutes
Wernicke's encephalopathy, marked by an unsteady gait, seeing double and confusion, is caused by a deficiency of this vitamin, found in whole grains, meats, nuts and beans:
Vitamin A
Vitamin B1 (thiamine)
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Who will get the coronavirus vaccine first? Probably not this group, according to recommendations from a C.D.C. advisory panel:
Residents of long-term care facilities
Health care workers
Essential workers
Men and women 65 and over
The C.D.C. outlined ways to shorten the quarantine period for coronavirus from 14 days to as little as:
3 days
5 days
7 days
10 days
During the pandemic, many people are missing screenings and treatments for cancer. With a four-week delay in surgery for breast cancer, the death rate increases by:
2 percent
5 percent
8 percent
A four-week delay in surgery has little impact on overall survival

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