And so I think it makes sense to give people a break from masking," Noymer said. "If we have continual masking orders, they might become a total joke by the time we really need them again." California masking rules changing KTVU's Cristina Rendon reports. The CDC is also offering a ...
saying students can now sit 3 feet apart in classrooms, providing a path to allow more schools to open in-person but also making some California teachers' unions wary of the change. Allie Rasmus reports
There was one spot of bright news: The federal government'sHealthy People 2020goals have called for a reduction of colorectal cancers to 38.6 cases per 100,000, and the new report shows that the goal has already been met among women nationwide and among both genders in some states. Cancers ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky is leaving her post in June. Walensky’s departure was announced by President Biden, according to several news reports. Read More CDC Director Rewrites History of COVID Vaccines as Uptake Plummets, Side Effect Research Mounts ...
reports that the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) is asking kids’ summer camps to stop distributing Tamiflu prophylactically, because the agency worries that “giving the drug to healthy people wastes the world’s limited supplies of Tamiflu and [...] [Read more →] Tags: Pandemic Flu ...
Texas reports first death of person with monkeypox in adult who was ‘severely immunocompromised’Read full article: Texas reports first death of person with monkeypox in adult who was ‘severely immunocompromised’ Texas officials have reported the first death of a person diagnosed with monkeypox ...
Among the data they asked the CDC to gather was on whether healthy children and young adults were still at risk of severe disease from the virus. While rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations remain worst in seniors and in babies under 6 months old, the agencypresented datafinding that otherwise ...
Public Health ReportsRoy K, Haddix AC, Ikeda RM, Curry CW, Truman BI, Thacker SB. Monitoring progress toward CDC's health protection goals: health outcome measures by life stage. Public Health Rep 2009;124:304-16.Roy K, Haddix AC, Ikeda RM, Curry CW, Truman I, Thacker SB. Monitoring ...
"Public health implications of our findings suggest that people who are suspected to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 should exercise caution despite an initial negative rapid antigen-test and favor mask-wearing and avoiding crowded places," the authors wrote. Given reports of people continuing to test...
Voices for Healthy Kids, a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Heart Association, is proving such advocacy efforts pay off. The initiative focuses on harnessing the power of grassroots campaigns at the local and state level to increase access to healthy foods an...