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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. health advisory panel on Wednesday will review six reported cases of rare blood clots in women who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine a day after federal regulators paused its use to assess the issue.FILE PHOTO: Vials with a sticker reading, “COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only” and a medical […]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky anticipates that all schools will be fully in person and no longer remote in September 2021. “We should anticipate, come September 2021, that schools should be full-fledged in person and all of our children back in the classroom,” the CDC director told ABC News Chief […]
FILE PHOTO: A farmworker is inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine as health professions come out to the farming community to deliver vaccinations during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mecca, California, U.S., February 1, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had distributed 59,304,600 doses of […]
One of the thousands of volunteers who enrolled in a COVID-19 vaccine trial is sharing her experience to inform and encourage Americans to get vaccinated once the shots are available. Susan Froehlich and her husband Thomas volunteered to test Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, which is now one of the two vaccines likely to be approved for […]
THURSDAY, Dec. 3, 2020 – The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Wednesday that the coming winter months might be the darkest period yet in the coronavirus pandemic. “I actually believe they’re going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation,” CDC Director Dr. […]
Pregnant women are at higher risk of death and severe illness from COVID-19 than women who are not pregnant, a new study found, though their overall risk is still low. The study, from the Centers for Disease Control, is the largest yet to look at how COVID-19 affects pregnant women, and showed that they were […]
Obesity, a risk factor for severe effects of COVID-19, continues to become more common, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twelve states now have a self-reported adult obesity prevalence of 35% or more, up from nine states in 2018 and six in 2017. Those 12 states are […]
A detailed look at COVID-19 deaths in U.S. kids and young adults released Tuesday shows they mirror patterns seen in older patients. The report examined 121 deaths of those younger than 21, as of the end of July. Like older adults, many of them had one or more medical condition—like lung problems, including asthma, obesity, […]
As Labor Day weekend kicks off, Dr. Anthony Fauci is urging Americans to continue taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to avoid another “surge in cases.” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a top White House coronavirus advisor, warned that this holiday weekend could lead to a […]
CDC, HHS tells governors to ready ‘large-scale’ distribution of COVID-19 vaccine Reaction from Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel, NYU Langone professor of medicine. A coronavirus vaccine could be ready for distribution as early as October or November, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told state officials, according to reports. The vaccine would first be […]