Last month, the board of a regional public health department in Idaho voted to ban its department from providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties. “They also act as a safety net for accessibility and affordability to vaccines, given that 1 in 3 Americans don’t have a primary health care provider.” She added such a trend is an “incredibly …
On the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, a different virus threatens to cause widespread illness and death, bring the global economy to its knees and throw us back into the chaos that we seemingly just emerged from with the virus SARS-CoV-2. “If we let this strain circulate uncontrolled, then boxes 2 and 3 are not that far ” Rajnarayanan added …
After public health officials confirmed H5N1, the virus also known as bird flu, jumped from poultry to cows and recently infected an American, they’ve warned that if the virus strain made its way to pigs, it could be a time to press the panic button. This specific trait might allow the virus to sp “The biggest question is whether cows …
Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver’s autopsy may take weeks. “They’re taking something that is a relatively routine way of describing something — people do, in fact, die unexpectedly — and then by assigning a hashtag to it, they aggregate all of these incidents in one place.” The campaign causes harm beyond just the internet, epidemiologist Dr. Katelyn Jetelina said. The …
NEWARK, N.J. — Shubham Chandra knows how dangerous the coronavirus can be: He lost his dad during the pandemic. “Without surveillance, it’s very hard to know what’s going on,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University. “Hopefully, with more sampling, we will get more information about what’s circulating.” Some scientists are worried the COVID-19 …
The real COVID surge is bigger than it looks. Because many people now rely on at-home tests, "we're clearly undercounting infections," White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters at the most recent COVID press briefing. Shaman's research group turned to using models to estimate the "ascertainment rate" — the portion of real infections that were being captured …
The U.S. is not going to meet President Joe Biden's July 4 goal of having 70 percent of adults with at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. On May 4, Biden announced a new vaccination goal for the U.S: an aim to administer at least one vaccine shot to 70 percent of the adults in the country by July 4. But …
