By Carla K. Johnson | Associated Press Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers reported Thursday. On Dec. 8, 2020, a retired shop clerk in England received the first shot in…
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If you’re planning to travel to the United States, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lifted its requirement for travelers to test negative for Covid-19 before entering the United States. The basics After…
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Health Elysse was 14 when she first started vaping cannabis. A young woman uses a vaporizer to dab, a method of inhaling highly concentrated THC, in Los Angeles, June 19, 2022. With THC levels close to 100 percent, todayÕs cannabis products are making some teenagers highly dependent and dangerously ill. Michelle Groskopf/The New York Times…
A doctors’ group on Thursday filed a lawsuit claiming BART is infringing on their constitutional free speech rights by refusing to allow ads targeting technology executive Elon Musk in trains and stations. The suit against the transit agency by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine alleged BART is violating the 1st Amendment by refusing to…
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Ro, a healthcare unicorn that last raised $150 million just months ago at a $7 billion valuation, has cut 18% of its staff to “manage expenses, increase the efficiency of our organization and better map our resources to our current strategy,” leadership wrote in an e-mail obtained by TechCrunch and confirmed by multiple sources. “Due…
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COVID How much demand there will be for the shots isn’t clear. Doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine wait to be administered during a vaccination clinic in Odessa, Texas, on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. On Thursday, June 23, 2022, an expert panel is recommending Moderna’s COVID-19 shots for kids ages 6 to 17, marking another…
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Local No one in the U.S. or globally has died from the current monkeypox outbreak. This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak….
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By Kevin Freking | Associated Press WASHINGTON — A lack of clear, concise and consistent messaging about the seriousness of the novel coronavirus in the earliest months of its spread created a false sense of security among Americans that the pandemic would not be serious and resulted in inaction early on across the federal government….
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COVID These omicron subvariants do seem to be more transmissible. The BA.4 and BA.5 variants have led to increased infections in South Africa and several European countries. The Associated Press COVID-19 omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 have rapidly increased their prevalence in New England over the past several weeks. U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)…
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COVID The state also reported 459 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Here’s the data reported Thursday, June 23, 2022. Newly reported cases: 1,700 Total confirmed cases: 1,755,678 Newly reported deaths: 6 Total confirmed deaths: 19,657 Newly reported tests: 35,022 Total tests: 45,844,363 Percent positivity (seven-day average): 5.53% Hospitalized patients: 459 Hospitalized patients who are fully vaccinated: 279 Hospitalized patients who are primarily hospitalized for COVID-19 related…
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