by Jordana Choucair | Nov 15, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
Health officials say they’re planning to push this week for people to get boosted against COVID-19 to maximum protection around Thanksgiving. Thus far, overall uptake remains low. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 15, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Biden administration plans to request roughly $10 billion in public health funds from Congress before the end of the year, including about $8.25 billion for COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and related response efforts. The request, which is reportedly being...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 14, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is expected to remain in place through mid-January. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra committed to providing stakeholders 60 days’ notice before lifting the PHE so they can prepare for a return to...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 4, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
New CDC data indicate that alcohol-induced deaths surged about 26 percent in the first year of the pandemic, after annual increases of about 7 percent. From 2019 to 2020, deaths from alcohol-induced acute pancreatitis increased 50 percent, deaths from mental and...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 3, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) renewed the national public health emergency (PHE) for the monkeypox outbreak. Although cases continue to drop, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said that the “continued consequences of an outbreak of monkeypox cases...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 31, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that U.S. hospitalizations due to the influenza virus so far this fall are higher than they have been in over a decade, signaling an early start for the flu season. The CDC estimated that there have already...
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