Tag: Epidemics
Supreme Court rules on abortion pill mifepristone
Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty I [...]
Seniors, immunocompromised can receive additional omicron shots
Sylvester Fisher gets a influenza vaccine from pharmacist Patricia Pernal during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the So [...]
Most nursing home residents have not received omicron booster
Less than 50% of nursing home residents, one of the country's most vulnerable populations to severe illness from Covid-19, have received an omicron bo [...]
Biden administration makes at-home Covid tests available for free again this winter
Take home COVID-19 self testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free take home tests per day, [...]
BQ, XBB omicron subvariants pose serious threat to boosters
Evusheld injection, a new COVID treatment that people can take before becoming symptomatic, in Chicago on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022.Chris Sweda | Tribune N [...]
Covid and flu hospitalizations increasing, RSV declining
Healthcare workers treat a Covid-19 patient on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) floor at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Monday, Jan [...]
Children under age 5 now eligible for omicron vaccines
Luca Moore, 11 months, receives a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while his mother Dr. Danielle Smith holds him at Northwell Health [...]
Pfizer rejects Moderna claim it copied Covid vaccine, accuses rival of rewriting history
Pfizer has rejected allegations made by rival Moderna that its Covid-19 vaccine is a copy, accusing the Boston biotech company of rewriting history to [...]
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, [...]
FDA pulls antibody bebtelovimab because not effective against omicron BQ.1
An Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey, March 5, 2021.Mike Segar | Reut [...]
Fauci calls out a bad job of vaccinating elderly
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, [...]
CDC will test sewage for virus in communities outside New York
The U.S. will expand polio wastewater surveillance to communities with low vaccination rates outside the New York City metro area, after an outbreak o [...]
Drug overdose deaths among seniors have more than tripled in 2 decades
Deaths from drug and alcohol use are rising among America's seniors.Drug overdose deaths more than tripled among people age 65 and older during the pa [...]
Flu hospitalizations increase nearly 30% as U.S. enters holiday season
Susana Sanchez, a Nurse Practitioner, administers a flu vaccination to Loisy Barrera at a CVS pharmacy and MinuteClinic in Miami, Florida.Joe Raedle | [...]
U.S. criticizes Beijing, supports right to protest
The White House on Monday criticized Beijing's zero Covid strategy as ineffective and said the Chinese people have a right to peacefully protest."We'v [...]