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Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
FDA says most people probably need only one annual vaccine shot
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has laid out a road map for what Covid-19 vaccination may look like moving forward. In a briefing document published Monday, the FDA sai...
CDC Exploring Possible But Unlikely Link Between Covid-19 Bivalent Booster And Strokes
Topline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said Friday a possible link has been identified between Pfizer-BioNTech’s bivalent Covid-19 vaccine and isch...
Norovirus Outbreak Linked To Raw Oysters From Texas, At Least 211 Ill
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has ordered a recall of all oysters that were … [+] harvested from November 17, 2022, through December 7, 2022 from the TX 1 area of southeas...
Biden administration will end monkeypox public health emergency
People line up to get a monkeypox vaccination at a new walk-up monkeypox vaccination site at Barnsdall Art Park on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022 in Hollywood, CA. Brian Van Der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Get...
Tucker Carlson Incorrectly Claims CDC Mandating Kids Get Covid-19 Vaccine For School
Tucker Carlson, seen here in July 2022 with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) and former U.S. … [+] President Donald Trump (R), made some claims about the CDC, Covid-19 vaccines, and schoo...
Covid vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths among U.S. seniors in 2021
Covid vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths and nearly 700,000 hospitalizations among adult Medicare recipients in 2021, the Health and Human Services Department said in a new report published Fr...
CDC Asks U.S. Physicians To Monitor For Ebola As Uganda Outbreak Grows
Topline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked U.S. health care practitioners on Thursday to monitor for potential Ebola infections, as an outbreak of the disease in Uganda impacts dozen...
Unvaccinated 14 Times More Likely To Contract Disease Than Those Without Shot, CDC Says
Topline People vaccinated against monkeypox were 14 times less likely than those who were not vaccinated to contract the disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky ...
Annual Covid Booster? Vaccination May Soon Resemble Flu Shot Approach, White House Says
Topline The U.S. will likely shift to offering Covid-19 booster vaccines on a yearly basis like flu shots, White House officials said Tuesday, as the administration begins to roll out a new booster sh...
CDC’s Walensky Signs Off On Omicron Booster–Here’s When You Can Get One
Topline Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signed off on Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated Covid-19 booster shots targeting the virulent omicron var...
CDC ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About Falling Rates Of Infections—But Racial Disparities Spark Concern
Topline Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said she felt “cautiously optimistic” about the monkeypox outbreak in the U.S., with new infection rates declining as the ...
E. Coli Outbreak May Be Linked To Romaine Lettuce At Wendy’s, 37 Ill, 10 Hospitalized
The romaine lettuce on Wendy’s burgers and sandwiches may be the source the latest E, coli O157:H7 … [+] outbreak(Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Washingt...
CDC Director Walensky Announces Major Agency Changes After Covid Missteps
Topline Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced Wednesday she will make major modifications to the agency’s structure, including staffing changes a...
Novak Djokovic Withdraws From Cincinnati, But There Remains Hope He Could Play The U.S. Open
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 28: Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns a shot during his Men’s Singles … [+] second round match against Juan Ignacio Londero of Argentina on day three of th...
Highly Contagious BA.5 Variant Becomes Dominant In U.S. As Covid Cases Rise
Topline The highly transmissible BA.5 omicron subvariant is now the dominant coronavirus strain in the U.S., accounting for nearly 54% of Covid-19 infections last week, according to estimates from the...
21 Cases Of Monkeypox Identified In 11 States, CDC Says
Topline There are 21 confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox in 11 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters Friday, as the disease continues to spread worldwide, with al...
U.S. Will Release Monkeypox Vaccine From National Stockpile, CDC Says
Topline The U.S. is releasing vaccines that can prevent monkeypox from its national stockpile, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials announced Monday, after at least one U.S. resident t...
U.S. Covid-19 Cases Top 7-Day Average Of 100,000 For First Time Since February
Topline The seven-day average of new Covid-19 cases rose above 100,000 Saturday for the first time since February 18, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with multiple subvari...
Here Is What One Million Covid Deaths In The U.S. Looks Like
According to official estimates from the CDC, Johns Hopkins University and other organizations that collect public health data, the United States is nearing the grim milestone of one million deaths fr...
CDC investigating severe hepatitis in children
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating 109 cases of severe hepatitis in children, including five deaths, to determine a cause, with adenovirus infection as a primary line of i...
Alabama Cases Linked To Common Virus May Provide Clue
Topline Nine Alabama children hospitalized with hepatitis also had adenovirus, a common disease that typically causes mild cold symptoms, strengthening the theory it is linked with the ongoing interna...
Most Americans Have Had Covid, Antibody Tests Show
Topline More than half of all Americans—including around 75% of children—had evidence of a prior coronavirus infection in their bloodstream after the omicron variant raged nationwide, the Centers for ...
DOJ Says It Might Appeal Ruling Against Airline Mask Mandate—If CDC Thinks Mask-Wearing Is Still Needed
Topline The federal government will appeal a judge’s Monday decision to throw out the nationwide mask mandate for airplanes and public transportation, but only if the Centers for Disease Control and P...
87% Of Kids Hospitalized With Covid During Omicron Wave Were Unvaccinated, CDC Says
Topline About 87% of children hospitalized with Covid-19 when the omicron variant was dominant were unvaccinated, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
Daily Covid Cases Lowest Since July
Topline The seven-day average of new Covid-19 cases reported in the U.S. last week dropped to a level not seen since the end of July 2021, before the delta wave surged, according to data from the Cent...
CDC Reportedly Plans To Ease Masking Guidelines As States Lift Mandates
Topline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to update its indoor mask-wearing guidelines as early as next week, NBC reported Tuesday, possibly easing its recommendations as many...
at-home testing, from Covid to cancer, worth $2 billion dollars
The at-home testing market is bigger than just Covid tests, and it’s bigger than over-the-counter pregnancy tests. In fact, the emerging marketplace of consumer-initiated lab testing may be wort...
How some small businesses have survived the Covid pandemic without them
The storefront of Mark Shriner’s small business, The Coffee House, in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Courtesy: Mark Shriner Mark Shriner needed help. It was spring 2020, and his coffee shop in Linc...