by Jordana Choucair | Apr 22, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said fewer U.S. children received vaccinations required to enter kindergarten during the 2020-21 school year, with rates around 94 percent for measles, whooping cough, and chickenpox. That figure was down 1 percent...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 22, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC issued an alert about a mysterious cluster of hepatitis cases in young children amid an investigation with the Alabama Department of Public Health. The state reported that nine previously healthy kids ages 1 to 6 ended up in the hospital with liver injuries,...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 21, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Justice Department appealed a federal judge’s ruling that struck down the mask mandate on airlines and other mass transportation, following the CDC’s recommendation that the mandate “remains necessary for the public health.” If the appeals court...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 20, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Biden administration said it will only appeal a federal judge’s ruling that struck down its mask mandate for public transit if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determines that the mask rule “remains necessary for public...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 20, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC launched a new center that aims to model and predict the path of infectious diseases like COVID-19, then relay that information to the public along with federal, state, and local governments. The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics launched during a...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 20, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC said that a new omicron subvariant is taking off in the United States and now makes up roughly 1 in 5 new COVID-19 cases. State health officials in New York estimate that the new variant, an offshoot of the dominant BA.2 version, is more transmissible than the...
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