by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data found that more than 80 percent of pregnancy-related deaths that occurred between 2017 and 2019 were preventable. Twenty-two percent of pregnancy-related deaths took place during pregnancy, 25 percent occurred...
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 23, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that life expectancy in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. declined from 2019 to 2020. The CDC primarily attributes the decline to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and “unintentional...
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 18, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky called for the agency to be overhauled after an external review found it had failed to respond quickly and clearly to COVID-19. Walensky said that the agency acted too much like an academic...
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 17, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
Many state and local health authorities have yet to adopt a new strategy to extend the current supply of monkeypox vaccines. The FDA authorized dividing Jynneos vaccine doses into fifths to expand the available supply. However, local authorities say there are several...
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 15, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The World Health Organization (WHO) renamed the two branches of the monkeypox virus. The Central African or Congo Basin clade will now be known as Clade I and the West African clade will be called Clade II. The WHO is also in the process of renaming the disease by...
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