This week, approval should have been secured to begin vaccinating children under the age of 5 for COVID-19. Both Pfizer and Moderna had products that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were to review. Pfizer’s shots are one-tenth of the adult dose and will be given…
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County officials found a third suspected case of monkeypox in the the San Diego region. Photo credit: County News Center San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency Friday identified another probable case of hMPXV, also known as human monkeypox. That brings the region’s total probable case count to three. All probable cases must be…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance for Americans on how they can have safe sex even if infected with monkeypox. Monkeypox is a pathogen that spreads through close personal contact with an infected person or linens they have been in contact with. The CDC says people with monkeypox can still have…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top medical adviser to the White House, admitted Wednesday that the battle over the Biden administration’s travel mask mandate is really about public health officials maintaining as much power as possible. President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed with a federal appeals court Tuesday against an April decision which overturned…
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned Saturday of a hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to organic strawberries. The two health agencies, along with their equivalents in Canada, announced they are investigating a multistate outbreak of the virus in the United States and Canada. It is believed…
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Loading the player… COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — Capri Isidoro broke down in tears in the office of a lactation consultant. The mother of two had been struggling to breastfeed her one-month-old daughter ever since she was born, when the hospital gave the baby formula first without consulting her on her desire to breastfeed. Now, with…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested in a new report that long-term COVID-19 restrictions may be necessary due to the threat of “long COVID.” In a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published this week, the agency concluded that as many as one in five Americans could be at risk of…
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Spraya Yamini, 10, holds her father Afshin’s hand as she receives the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Rady’s Children’s hospital in San Diego in 2021. Children may soon be eligible to receive booster shots. REUTERS/Mike Blake The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported 1,579 new COVID-19 infections Thursday, the highest number of daily cases…
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Advisers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are concerned that rolling out annual COVID-19 vaccines, after already asking Americans to get three or more shots, might create the impression that the vaccines aren’t effective at all, according to a New York Times report. The agency, along with the Food and Drug Administration…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought location data from tens of millions of phones for the purpose of tracking Americans’ compliance with quarantine guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to documents obtained by Vice News. The documents, reportedly dated from 2021, show that the data was used to monitor curfews, movement to…
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