by Jordana Choucair | Dec 3, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
World Health Organization (WHO) officials said that measures used to combat the COVID-19 delta variant should be kept in place to counter omicron. The group previously cautioned against border closures, but Dr. Takeshi Kasai, the WHO regional director for the Western...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 30, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC strengthened its COVID-19 booster recommendation Monday, saying that all American adults “should” get booster doses of the available COVID-19 vaccines. The agency had previously said that Americans over age 50, as well as those ages 18 and older living in...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 29, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the global risk of the omicron variant is “very high.” WHO urged member states to ramp up COVID-19 vaccinations “as rapidly as possible” and to shore up their virus surveillance and sequencing work. The...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 22, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN that fully vaccinated families don’t need to wear masks during holiday celebrations, noting that children ages 5 to 11 can be “fully vaccinated by the time we get to the Christmas holidays.” He also warned that getting a...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 11, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
The White House announced that it expects nearly one million children aged 5–11 will receive their first COVID-19 vaccine dose this week. Additionally, there are already 700,000 future appointments scheduled through pharmacies Approximately 20,000 pharmacies, clinics,...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 9, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC announced that 70 percent of adults in the U.S. are fully vaccinated. The U.S. has administered over 432 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of November 8, almost 1.2 million doses more compared to November 7. Almost 25 million people have...
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