Region 1, which includes DeKalb, Sauk Valley and Rockford, officially passed the threshold for mitigations Wednesday, recording a third straight day with a seven-day rolling positivity average of over 8%, hitting 8.4%.

According to the Illinois Public Health Department's daily county testing data, which is on a three-day lag, DeKalb County had a daily positivity rate of 4.2% on Sunday, down from 12.2% the day before. The rolling positivity rate dropped to 6.9%.

New cases included three in patients under 20, two in their 20s, three in their 30s, four in their 40s, one in their 50s, two in their 70s and one in their 80s.

In total, 283 cases have been reported among residents younger than 20, 510 in their 20s, 224 in their 30s, 214 in their 40s, 177 in their 50s, 109 in their 60s, 77 in their 70s and 88 in their 80s or older.

According to county data, the city of DeKalb reports between 886 and 890 cases. There are between 216 and 220 cases in Sycamore; 171 and 175 in Sandwich; 126 and 130 cases in Genoa; 76 and 80 cases in Cortland; 31 and 35 in Hinckley; 26 and 30 in Kingston and Kirkland; 21 and 25 cases in Malta and Somonauk; and 11 and 15 in Waterman, Maple Park and Shabbona. Esmond, Leland and Earlville each report between one and five cases.

Cases listed on the county site are for those only occurring within the county; for instance, the Maple Park numbers only count residents who reside in DeKalb County.

The IDPH lists cases and tests performed by ZIP code, while the county health department lists cases by municipality. Numbers vary between state and health departments because of data lags.

The 60115 ZIP code, including DeKalb, had 843 cases reported and 14,693 tests administered (a positivity rate of 5.7%); the 60178 ZIP code, including Sycamore, had 223 cases and 5,734 tests (3.9%); the 60548 ZIP code, including Sandwich, had 4,066 tests and 248 cases (6.1%); the 60112 ZIP code, including Cortland, had 79 cases and 1,294 tests (6.1%); the 60135 ZIP code, including Genoa, had 121 cases and 1,942 tests (6.2%); the 60145 ZIP code, including Kingston, had 27 cases and 488 tests (5.5%); the 60146 ZIP code, including Kirkland, had 35 cases and 697 tests (5.0%); the 60520 ZIP code, including Hinckley, had 31 cases and 696 tests (4.6%); the 60550 ZIP code, including Shabbona, had 15 cases and 601 tests (2.5%); the 60151 ZIP code, including parts of Maple Park in both DeKalb and Kane counties, had 45 cases and 981 tests (4.6%); and the 60556 ZIP code, including Waterman, had 13 cases and 415 tests (3.1%).

The IDPH reported 293,274 people in Illinois have tested positive for COVID-19, while 8,672 people have died statewide. The number of tests performed rose to 5,624,822. The site also lists statewide recovery rates, calculated by recovered cases divided by the sum of recovered cases and dead cases. The statewide recovery rate remained at 96%.

The county released its weekly testing and recovery data on Friday, with 1,078 total recovered since the pandemic began locally. A total of 33,814 tests have been conducted on residents.

The findings, published in the journal Age and Ageing, highlight that doctors and carers should be aware of delirium as a possible early warning sign of COVID-19 in the elderly, even in the absence of more typical symptoms such as cough or fever.

Led by clinical fellow and geriatrician Dr Rose Penfold at King's College London, the researchers analysed data from two groups of older people aged 65 or over from March through May. The first group included 322 patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 who had tested positive for COVID-19, while the second comprised 535 users of the COVID Symptom Study app who reported having had a positive test result.

They found that older adults admitted to hospital who were classified as frail according to a standard scale were more likely to have had delirium as one of their symptoms than people of the same age who were not classed as frail. Delirium, along with tiredness and breathlessness, were also more common in frailer users of the COVID Symptom Study app with COVID-19, compared with fitter people of the same age.

A third of app users experiencing delirium did not report suffering the 'classic' COVID-19 symptoms of cough and fever, while delirium was the only symptom for around one in five (18.9%) of hospitalised patients.

Frailty in the group of hospitalised patients was measured using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) test, which is administered by a doctor. COVID Symptom Study App users were asked to complete a short questionnaire asking about their health, which is comparable to the CFS.

This is the first study showing that delirium is a likely symptom of COVID-19 in frail older adults, although the precise biological connection between the two conditions still needs to be understood. The findings also highlight the need for systematic assessment of frailty for older people, along with awareness and screening for delirium for this vulnerable population in hospitals, care homes and the community.

Dr Rose Penfold from King's College London said: "Older, frailer people are at greater risk from COVID-19 than those who are fitter, and our results show that delirium is a key symptom in this group. Doctors and carers should watch out for any changes in mental state in elderly people, such as confusion or strange behaviour, and be alert to the fact that this could be an early sign of coronavirus infection."

Dr Claire Steves from King's College London said: "The past six months have shown us that COVID-19 can spread catastrophically through care homes. Knowing that delirium is a symptom in frail, elderly people will help families and carers spot the signs earlier of COVID-19 and act appropriately and put in place infection control measures such as isolation, increased hygiene and personal protective equipment to protect this highly vulnerable group."

Professor Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London and COVID Symptom Study lead, said: "In April we upgraded the COVID Symptom Study app to allow users to log health reports on behalf of friends and family who aren't able to access the app. This significantly increased the number of older people in the study, providing vital insights. We're hugely grateful to all our users and urge everyone to download the app and log their health and that of their loved ones on a daily basis as we move towards the winter months."

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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The number of new cases, percentage of tests that were positive and many other helpful data points are always available at forward.ny.gov.

"We're dealing with the cluster situation. We've had clusters in the past stemming from factories, churches, bars and other locations. Remember we started with New Rochelle, the first hotspot in the United States, which stemmed from someone who attended a religious gathering and then a wedding. And that was the first super spreader event, so we're quite familiar with this, and when there's a cluster, we are very aggressive on it and we're oversampling in the clusters," Governor Cuomo said. "We've deployed rapid testing machines. So you have two infection rates that you want to pay attention to: the statewide numbers and then the cluster numbers. All of this is a stark reminder that we need to stay smart and vigilant - wear a mask, socially distance, follow the public health guidance - because this thing is not over."

New York State continues to track clusters with a particular focus on the top 20 ZIP codes in which there have been hotspots. Within the 20 hotspot ZIP codes, the average rate of positive tests is 5.5 percent. The rate of positive tests for the remainder of New York State, not counting the top 20 ZIP codes, is 0.82 percent. The rate of positive tests for all of New York State, including the top 20 ZIP codes, is 1.02 percent. These 20 ZIP codes contained 23 percent of all positive cases in New York State yesterday, but represent only 6 percent of the state's population.

The Governor noted that 20 hotspot ZIP codes reported an average 5.5 percent positivity rate. Areas that had high positivity rates will be subject of focused testing efforts including access to rapid testing machines. These ZIP codes include:

The Governor also announced the New York State Department of Financial Services will extend an emergency regulation requiring New York health insurers to waive out-of-pocket costs, including cost-sharing, deductibles, copayments and coinsurance, for in-network mental health services for New York's frontline essential workers during COVID-19 until November 27. The extension of this emergency regulation helps to ensure that cost-sharing is not a barrier to in-network mental health services during COVID-19 for health care workers, first responders, transit workers, food services workers, retail workers at essential businesses, and other frontline essential employees, who are required to directly interact with the public while working during this continuing public health emergency. Governor Cuomo first announced the State's directive requiring New York insurers to waive out-of-pocket costs for in-network mental health services for frontline essential workers during COVID-19 in May.

Yesterday, the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force visited 1,114 establishments in New York City and Long Island and observed 4 establishments that were not in compliance with state requirements. A county breakdown of yesterday's observed violations is below:

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

• Patient Hospitalization - 605 (+34)
• Patients Newly Admitted - 100
• Hospital Counties - 38
• Number ICU - 144 (-3)
• Number ICU with Intubation - 67 (+6)
• Total Discharges - 76,754 (+63)
• Deaths - 9
• Total Deaths - 25,479

Of the 97,960 test results reported to New York State yesterday, 1,000, or 1.02 percent, were positive. Each region's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

Each New York City borough's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

The Governor also confirmed 1,000 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 458,649 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 458,649 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

Yesterday, there were 9 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,479. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

A new study, published in Transplantation, finds that risk of death from COVID-19 in organ transplant recipients may be based upon how the patient was treated.

“Using data from the COVID-19 Rapid Response Registry, we examined COVID-19 positive adult solid organ transplant recipients and non-transplant patients that were matched to them on age, race and whether they were admitted at the hospital or seen at an outpatient facility,” says lead author of the study, Pratima Sharma, M.D., an associate professor of medicine and a transplant hepatologist at Michigan Medicine.

Sharma says the demographics of patients included in the study were also consistent with COVID-19 patient trends throughout the state of Michigan.

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“Black Michiganders represent 15% of the total population in the state and account for 42% of COVID-19-related deaths, compared to white Michiganders who represent 75% of the population in the state and 26% of deaths from COVID-19,” she says.

“These statistics are also valid for solid organ transplant recipients, and while Black patients account for one tenth of all organ transplant recipients in our University of Michigan Transplant Center, they represented two-thirds of the COVID-19 positive organ transplant recipients group in this study,” she adds. “These results highlight the racial inequities that have overwhelmed the United States health care system during this pandemic.”

The research team found that disease severity and intubation rates were similar among both solid organ transplant recipients and non-transplant patients, but organ transplant recipients needed more renal replacement therapy, which takes over functioning for the kidneys when they are failing.

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While death due to severity of the virus was similar in both groups, the use of hydroxychloroquine treatment was associated with higher death rates among the organ transplant recipients.

“In fact, we found that the treatment of hydroxychloroquine among organ transplant recipients was associated with ten-fold higher risk of death compared to not using the treatment among the recipients,” Sharma says.

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Sharma and her colleagues hope that these findings encourage further scrutiny of hydroxychloroquine use in organ transplant recipients infected with COVID-19.

The study research team led by Sharma includes Michigan Medicine researchers from five divisions/units: Vincent Chen, M.D., Vaiibhav Patel, M.D., Michael Combs, M.D., Silas Norman, M.D., Puneet Garg, M.D., Monica Colvin, M.D., Jonathan Golob, M.D., Ph.D., and Monica Doshi, M.D., of the Department of Internal Medicine; Christopher Sonnenday, M.D., MHS, of the Department of Surgery; Christopher Fung, M.D., of the Department of Emergency Medicine; Emily Somers, Ph.D., of the U-M School of Public Health; and Jonathan Troost, Ph.D., of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research.

Paper cited: “COVID-19 Outcomes Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients,” Transplantation. DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000003447

The Access to COVID-19 Tools – the ACT-Accelerator – along with its COVAX Facility, is a groundbreaking global collaboration to accelerate development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines. 

Launched at the end of April 2020, the ACT-Accelerator has secured $3 billion, critical for its start up, but it needs a further $35 billion – including an “immediate infusion” of $15 billion – Secretary-General António Guterres said at a high-level event to mobilize support for the initiative. 

“These resources are crucial now to avoid losing the window of opportunity for advance purchase and production, to build stocks in parallel with licensing, to boost research, and to help countries prepare to optimize the new vaccines when they arrive.”  

Any delay would further widen already vast inequalities, he warned. 

‘By helping others, countries help themselves’ 

Mr. Guterres outlined clearly that to reach that amount, donors’ paying in through official development assistance budgets, will not be sufficient. 

It is time for countries to draw funding from their own response and recovery programmes. By helping others, they will help themselves – Secretary-General Guterres

“We need to think bigger. It is time for countries to draw funding from their own response and recovery programmes. By helping others, they will help themselves”, he said. 

The coronavirus pandemic is costing the global economy $375 billion a month and has destroyed around 500 million jobs so far. 

The Secretary-General called on developed countries – which have devoted many trillions of dollars to respond to the socio-economic impacts of the crisis in their own countries – to “invest a small fraction of that, to stop the spread of the disease everywhere.” 

“I call on all countries and partners to significantly step up in the next three months to provide much needed new and additional resources and to mobilize all partners and to put everyone behind a global response to deliver. Solidarity is self-interest,” he stressed. 

“Grasping that 21st-century truth is essential to end this crisis and emerge safer, smarter and stronger together,” he said, wrapping up his remarks. 

‘A test of solidarity’ 

Amid the devastation of COVID-19, science is offering solutions, in the form of new tests, therapeutics and – hopefully – vaccines, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), speaking alongside the Secretary-General. 

Science and solutions are, however, ineffective without solidarity, he added. 

The head of WHO explained that the ACT-Accelerator has already delivered “impressive results” in the form of making available 120 million new rapid tests for low- and middle-income countries and securing courses of dexamethasone. 

The financing gap for ACT-Accelerator stands at $35 billion … roughly equivalent to what the world spends on cigarettes every two weeks – WHO DG Tedros 

The COVAX facility, on its part, is supporting the development of vaccines, he continued, underlining that “now is the time to realize the full power of ACT-Accelerator.”  

With the $35 billion financing gap – roughly equivalent to what the world spends on cigarettes every two weeks - the WHO Director-General said that fully funded, the initiative will help control the pandemic, restore confidence and stimulate the growth of the recovery. 

“Frankly, this is not a financial challenge, it is a test of solidarity. This is a moment to say no to nationalism, and yes to our shared humanity,” he declared, adding “ultimately ACT is not delivering merely vaccines, diagnostics or therapeutics, it is delivering something far more important – hope.”  

Eliminate COVID-19 everywhere 

Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, also addressing the summit, said that a vaccine against COVID-19 will help save millions of lives as well as support the development of a plan to eliminate the disease globally.  

To achieve global elimination, he outlined three necessities: capacity to produce billions of vaccines, funding to pay for them, and systems to deliver them everywhere. 

“A vaccine can make COVID-19 a preventable disease, and no one should die from a preventable disease simply because the country they live in can’t afford the vaccine,” he added, urging action to ensure low- and lower-middle income countries can also access sufficient doses to protect their populations.    

“The only way to eliminate the threat of this disease somewhere, is to eliminate it everywhere,” said Mr. Gates.  

New agreement with pharma 

Mr. Gates announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, earlier on Wednesday, had signed a new agreement with 16 pharmaceutical companies. 

“In this agreement the companies commit to, among other things, scaling up manufacturing at an unprecedented speed, and making sure that approved vaccines reach broad destruction as early as possible”, he said. 

The next necessity to eliminate COVID-19, is the funding to pay for those vaccines.  

Mr. Gates said that the pharmaceutical industry has committed to make the products as affordable as possible, through donations, tiered pricing and foregoing profits, and underlined the need for public funding, to procure vaccines for all. 

“This is where the ACT-Accelerator comes in,” said Mr. Gates, applauding the United Kingdom for donating enough money to purchase hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines for poor countries. “I want to encourage other countries to do the same”, he said. 

“Finally even when we have the manufacturing capacity and the funding lined up, we will need to strengthen health systems to achieve the broad coverage to deliver the vaccine, and monitor for outbreaks”, he said, adding that lessons learnt from polio eradication efforts can be used for that purpose. 

With the right diagnostics, health workers can also sound the alarm if a future disease jumps from animal to humans, said Mr. Gates, adding: “In other words, we can also be building the systems that will help reduce the damage of the next pandemic.”

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September 30, 2020

UW researchers driving around Seattle to track COVID-19 response over time

UW researchers developed a project that scans the streets every few weeks to document how Seattle has reacted to the pandemic and what recovery looks like. The team is developing algorithms to help identify things such as cars, people and whether they are physically distancing in each frame.University of Washington

As the city of Seattle shut down in March 2020 to try to slow the spread of COVID-19, a group of University of Washington researchers got to work.

The team developed a project that scans the streets every few weeks to document what’s happening around the city — answering questions such as: Are people outside? Are restaurants open? This project, which began in May and will continue until at least fall of 2021, collects images of how Seattle has reacted to the pandemic and what recovery looks like. This creates a massive dataset that documents what was happening at any particular point in time. The researchers hope the data will help answer questions about what makes a city resilient and how to better prepare for potential future pandemics and other disasters.

The team will present this project Oct. 1 at the Environmental and Occupational Health webinar through the UW School of Public Health.

“We talk about resilience a lot in disaster sciences. There are lots of theories about what makes a community resilient to natural hazards, but we don’t fully understand resilience to pandemics, partially because we just haven’t been through these events at this scale,” said co-lead researcher Nicole Errett, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health sciences. “This project provided us with an opportunity to see what’s important for resilience in this context. What are people doing? Where are they recreating? Are they following distancing and mask-wearing recommendations? And how do their activities change as the pandemic progresses?”

Video footage taken from the team’s first drive on May 1, 2020.

To track what’s happening in Seattle, the researchers drive a car with a camera similar to Google Street View on top throughout the city.

“This is an amazing tool for quickly gathering highly perishable data from across the city,” said co-lead researcher Joseph Wartman, a professor of civil and environmental engineering. “Unless we capture these scenes now, these sights — and the rich data they contain — will be lost forever. I can already see a significant difference between the May dataset and what’s happening now. For example, when we first drove past Harborview Medical Center, no one was present on the block. Now it’s beginning to look like it used to.”

The team captured this series of photos from outside Harborview Medical Center between June and August 2020. The June photo shows very few people in the area. In July, there are people waiting at the bus stop. By August, there are more people at the bus stop and the surrounding areas. Credit: University of Washington

The team’s route takes between eight and 11 hours to drive each time.

“We wanted the route to capture different aspects of the city — such as restaurants, hospitals, schools, parks and museums — and also make sure we had an equal representation across a variety of neighborhoods,” said co-lead researcher Scott Miles, a senior principal research scientist in the human centered design and engineering department.

The researchers try to start the drive at 8 a.m. on Friday, every few weeks, to maintain a consistent schedule, but it depends on weather, specifically the camera doesn’t work in the rain. They also drive on some Sundays to try to capture any variation between weekdays and weekends.

The Street-View-like camera creates huge datasets — each drive is turned into tens of thousands of images that make up an almost 2-terabyte file. So the researchers are developing algorithms to help them identify things such as cars, people and whether they are physically distancing in each frame. Identities — such as human faces and vehicle license plates — will be blurred.

“When people study disaster recovery, they often look at location data from smartphones or transaction data from debit or credit cards,” said co-lead researcher Youngjun Choe, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering. “But these data points do not necessarily capture everyone in a community. By looking at our images, I hope we are creating a dataset that better represents all people who live and work in Seattle.”

Any insights gained from this project, such as how people respond to mask recommendations or which populations might need more resources, can help other cities better understand their own recovery trends the researchers said.

“People talk about this as a 100-year pandemic, because the last major pandemic was in 1918,” Errett said. “Now conditions are much different — we have increased population density, climate change and more. I don’t think we’re going to be waiting another hundred years. So whatever we can do to learn from this experience will help us develop better policies and plans for the future.”

Jaqueline Peltier, an operations specialist in civil and environmental engineering; Matthew Martell, a doctoral student in industrial and systems engineering; Christopher Salazar, a master’s student in industrial and systems engineering; and Vanessa Yang, an undergraduate student in statistics and informatics, are also part of this project. This research is funded by the National Science Foundation.

For more information, contact Errett at nerrett@uw.edu, Wartman at wartman@uw.edu, Miles at milessb@uw.edu and Choe at ychoe@uw.edu.

Grant number:  CMMI-2031119

By Ganesh Setty | CNN Business

Elon Musk is once again publicly downplaying the risks of Covid-19.

In a wide-ranging interview with the journalist Kara Swisher, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he would not take a Covid-19 vaccine when one becomes available, and declined to say whether he feels a duty to pay employees who want to stay home to avoid contracting the virus.

“I’m not at risk for Covid, nor are my kids,” said Musk during Monday’s episode of the New York Times podcast “Sway.”

Musk has long cultivated a public persona of an eccentric entrepreneur who knows better than the experts and isn’t afraid to offer controversial opinions.

On the podcast, Musk argued that instead of sweeping stay-at-home orders to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, “anyone who is at risk should be quarantined until the storm passes.”

When Swisher confronted Musk with the possibility that people would still die in the process, he replied bluntly: “Everybody dies.”

“The question is what, on balance, serves the greater good,” Musk continued, adding that the lockdowns did not accomplish that and the pandemic is a “no-win situation.”

Musk, the third-richest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, tweeted in April that nationwide stay-at-home orders amounted to “de facto house arrest.”

If one of his workers told him that coming to work would put their family at risk, Musk said he would simply tell them to “stay home.”

He declined to elaborate on whether he would feel obliged to pay them. When Swisher pressed, Musk grew defensive, threatening to end the interview. “Let’s just move on…Kara, I do not want to get into a debate about Covid, this situation … If you want to end the podcast now, we can do it.”

Musk also took aim at fellow billionaire Bill Gates, who in late July told journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin that Musk ought to stick to what he knows best.

“Elon’s positioning is to maintain a high level of outrageous comments,” Gates said. “He’s not much involved in vaccines. He makes a great electric car. And his rockets work well. So he’s allowed to say these things. I hope that he doesn’t confuse areas he’s not involved in too much.”

Musk responded on the podcast in his typically blunt manner: “It’s like, hey, knucklehead, we actually make the vaccine machines for CureVac, that company you’re invested in.”

It’s not the first time Musk has criticized the Microsoft co-founder.

When Gates blogged his doubts earlier this month on the potential for long-haul electric vehicles, Musk tweeted that Gates “has no clue.”

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OK, now that you know what it does, how do you go about using it?

Hyaluronic acid is available in multiple forms, including oral supplements, applied serums, and injectables. Which one you choose ultimately comes down to what you’re using it for, what your budget is, and personal preference.

Oral hyaluronic acid. It’s always best to speak with a trusted health professional before using an oral supplement. Studies have shown that taking 120 to 240 milligrams per day for at least a month significantly reduced dry skin and increased moisture.

Topical hyaluronic acid. Along with hyaluronic acid serums, there are creams and makeup that feature the acid as a main ingredient. As with any new skin care ingredient, results and side effects may vary. However, because hyaluronic acid is naturally occurring, side effects are usually limited.

Injectable hyaluronic acid. Some dermatologists offer injectable hyaluronic acid fillers, and while the treatment is considered safe, this guide will focus on options that are readily available for purchase by consumers for at-home use, namely oral and topical.

For any of the non-skin-related uses above, you should talk with a doctor or seek advice at a local health clinic to talk about whether HA is right for you — and if so, what form, dose, and frequency, etc.

As for beauty applications, we’ve got you covered. If you’re ready to try out hyaluronic acid for acne, dry skin, pesky wrinkles, or just some glowy skin, we’ve gathered the best products to try out. Looking to ease a dry scalp or encourage the growth of luscious locks? We’ve got that on the list too.

We chose these products based on their effective ingredients and rave reviews from customers. We’ve included options that are serums and supplements, as well as beauty products that include hyaluronic acid.

While they range in price, most of the products on this list are less than $40.

This $7 serum combines hyaluronic acid and vitamin B5 to provide dry skin with much-needed moisture. Suggested for use twice a day, the liquid-based product left the faces of someone online reviewers looking more luminous than ever, and some reported softer skin.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, sodium hyaluronate crosspolymer, vitamin B5 (as panthenol)

Price: $

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Those interested in incorporating hyaluronic acid through a daily cleansing routine should consider this face wash. The cream-based cleanser washes away makeup and dirt, but it’s blend of hyaluronic acid, Japanese algae, and Japanese rice powder should also leave skin feeling softer.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, blend of nourishing Japanese algae and Japanese rice powder

Price: $$

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By adding hyaluronic acid directly into this tinted moisturizer, users can skip the added step of doubling up on separate products. Plus, as moisturizer is proven effective in treating oily skin, you’re getting both the benefits of the hyaluronic acid, and the added moisture.

The product is available in multiple tinted shades, but you should be wary of application, as some reported it looking “streaky and patchy,” while others experienced breakouts.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, coconut water (cocos nucifera water)

Price: $$

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More than 1,000 shoppers have given this moisturizer a five-star seal of approval, citing its combination of hyaluronic acid and rose water as the reason for “dewy” skin. Sensitive skin users praised the product, but those with oily skin cited additional breakouts possibly related to use.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, angelica keiskei extract, rose water as rosa damascena flower oil, tocopheryl acetate

Price: $$

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Peptides focused on reducing wrinkles and fine lines join hyaluronic acid in this popular serum. The serum’s $8 price is partially responsible for its popularity, with consumers calling it a “cost-effective” alternative to similar, more expensive products.

“This feels amazing on the skin,” one reviewer wrote, while another said it doesn’t feel sticky when applied.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7, palmitoyl tripeptide-1

Price: $

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Thanks to the quick-absorbing formula of this gel, this is one product that can easily be worn under liquid makeup.

Suitable for all skin types, some online reviewers swear by the item, writing, “My cystic acne has ceased, my skin is supple, clear, brightened.” Another reviewer dubbed it an “effective, affordable” alternative to more expensive products.

For those with a sensitive nose, some customers did note that they were not a fan of the product’s fragrance.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid

Price: $$

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This balm allows your lips to take advantage of the hydrating properties of hyaluronic acid. Formulated with shea butter and wild mint, the balm — which comes in three color variations — earned top marks from shoppers for leaving lips feeling “lush” and its lightweight application.

Not everyone is a fan of the balm’s packaging though, as some reported issues with the balm’s thin applicator.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, shea butter, avocado oil

Price: $$

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Hypoallergenic and tested by dermatologists, this intensive cream provides long-lasting hydration to the face.

Customers reported that a little goes a long way with usage, and some noticed instant results. However, some did report that it doesn’t mix well with makeup, and that on some occasions, it didn’t feel truly absorbed by the skin.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, sunflower seed oil

Price: $$

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The addition of vitamin B5 and algae extract enables this hyaluronic acid serum to also target fine lines and wrinkles. Although the formula did feel “sticky” to some users, others suggested applying moisturizer after to counteract that.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, vitamin B5, algae extract

Price: $$

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Not for the budget bound, this scalp serum is pricey. The serum provides a heavy dose of hydration and moisture to the scalp thanks to HA, purslane, and papaya extract. Caffeine energizes and panthenol soothes. It’s free of parabens, formaldehydes, phthalates, and more undesirables.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, purslane, papaya extract, panthenol, caffeine

Price: $$$

Buy Dr. Barbara Sturm Scalp Serum.

Hyaluronic acid in supplement form can reduce dry skin, and this combination, which also features collagen, will also support overall skin health.

Online reviewers did report more “luminous” “hydrated” skin, but some were not a fan of the product’s texture, and others did not notice an improvement in their skin.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid, collagen, sea buckthorn

Price: $$

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Containing only hyaluronic acid as its key ingredient, this supplement, when taken as directed, delivers 200 milligrams of the beneficial skin care ingredient. One reviewer noted a lessening of wrinkles, but combined the supplement with additional moisturizers.

Key ingredients: hyaluronic acid

Price: $$

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