by Jordana Choucair | May 19, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The House passed a bill to help prevent domestic terrorism and combat the threat of violent extremism. The 222-203 vote comes in the wake of a racially motivated mass shooting over the weekend at a supermarket in a predominately Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New...
by Jordana Choucair | May 11, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the rate at which Americans were killed in gun homicides soared by nearly 35 percent in 2020 to the highest level in more than 25 years. Amid the pandemic and recession that followed,...
by Jordana Choucair | May 9, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Biden administration is issuing a new warning that the U.S. could potentially see 100 million COVID-19 infections this fall and winter. The White House is sharing these estimates as officials are publicly stressing the need for more funding from Congress to combat...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 28, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the U.S.is in a “transition phase” of the COVID-19 pandemic. He noted that while COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are trending up again, it’s not anywhere near the rise we saw over the winter with the Omicron wave and that fewer...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 27, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data indicating that nearly 60 percent of U.S. adults and 75 percent of children under the age of 18 have antibodies that indicate prior COVID-19 coronavirus infection. According to the study, as of...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 27, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released new guidance stating that people over the age of 60 should not start taking daily, low-dose aspirin to prevent cardiovascular events like heart attacks or strokes. Low-dose aspirin had been a popular prevention measure,...
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