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New York Braces For Omicron Outbreak Ahead Of Holidays
Omicron makes up around 13% of total cases in New York and 3% total in the U.S.
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CDC Looking Into Heart Inflammation Following Vaccine Emergency
A meeting is planned for next week to discuss rare cases of heart inflammation after receiving the COVID vaccine.
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FDA Warns Purell To Stop Promoting Unproven Health Claims
The FDA sent a letter to Purell over some of its advertised health claims.
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US Maternal Death Rates Are High, They're Even Worse for Black Women
Is it bias, preexisting conditions or inadequate care? Doctors and politicians try to understand the US' high maternal death rate.
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House Wants Investigation of Pentagon's COVID-19 Spending
House Democrats call for an investigation into the Pentagon using COVID-19 relief funds to pay defense contractors.
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World Health Organization Looks To Change Monkeypox Name
The World Health Organization is likely to change the name of monkeypox, though the renaming process isn't likely to happen very soon.
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Possible Coronavirus Treatments Include Cloned Antibodies, Vaccines
While the CDC says risk to Americans is still low, U.S. researchers and scientists are hard at work exploring possible treatments for coronavirus.
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CDC Supports Getting Students Back Into The Classroom
The CDC says that keeping kids out of school can lead to "severe learning loss" as well as access to counseling and special education services.
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CDC: 10% To 20% Of U.S. COVID-19 Cases Are Health Care Workers
A CDC report of cases recorded between Feb. 12 and April 9 showed about 9,300 health care professionals in the U.S. had tested positive for COVID-19.
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U.S. Clears Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Shot for Adolescents
May.11 -- Dr. Amesh Adalja, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security senior scholar, discusses the authorization of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine for kids age 12-15 and the messaging around vaccinations. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of...
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CDC Reports 6 Deaths, 380 Illnesses Linked To E-cigarettes
The Centers for Disease Control is also sounding the alarm over advertising for e-cigarettes that it says corresponds with a spike in teen use.
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Schools Make Changes As They Return From Break And COVID-19 Cases Soar
To help keep students in school, the CDC and U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona endorsed test-to-stay as an alternative to 10-day quarantines.
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Immunocompromised Patients Denied 4th Vaccine Dose Despite CDC OK
The CDC held a conference call with pharmacists this week to reiterate the guidelines for who qualifies for a fourth vaccine dose.
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CDC Expands Booster Recommendations to 16, 17-Year-Olds
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending 16-and-17-year-olds in the U.S. to get Covid-19 booster shots. Robert Langreth reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia."
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NFL Reduces Isolation Time For Those Who Test Positive For COVID-19
The league has updated its COVID-19 protocols, reducing the time individuals must isolate from 10 days to five days.
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Researchers Test Whether Cloth Masks Or Surgical Masks Are Best
A group of researchers from universities including Yale and Stanford found surgical masks more effective than cloth masks.
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Investigation: Police Ignore FBI Request For 'Use Of Force' Data
A Texas police agency that fired a taser at woman in a wheelchair will begin disclosing use-of-force incidents to the FBI, following Newsy questions.
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How Pres. Trump’s Social Media Helps Spread of False COVID Information
Cornell University researchers found President Trump was linked to a third of published "misinformation conversation" they studied on coronavirus.
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Study Details The Impact COVID-19 Has On Obesity
A 2021 study from the CDC shows obesity among the top underlying conditions associated with COVID deaths.
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Experts Warn Holiday Travel Will Fuel Spread Of Omicron Variant
AAA expects more than 100 million Americans to travel this week leading up to Christmas.
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Wastewater Is Tracking Down COVID In Communities
For years, public health researchers have known viruses show up in a human's stool. But COVID amped up funding and interest to invest in a network.
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CDC: U.S. Overdose Deaths Hit Record 107,000 Last Year
U.S. overdose deaths have been on the rise for more than two decades, beginning in the 1990s with the influx of illicit opioids like fentanyl.
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Hospitals Told To Send COVID-19 Data To Trump Admin., Bypass CDC
Hospitals will report information including test results and how many beds and ventilators are available to a new central database from here on out.
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CDC OKs Third COVID Shot For Some Immunocompromised Patients
Right now the CDC has no data for Johnson and Johnson vaccine recipients or those looking to mix J&J with another vaccine.