A new internal review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that guidance issued during the Trump administration downplayed the seventy of the pandemic. First reported by The Washington Post, a memo found the guidance was not ‘primarily authored’ by CDC staff and not based on the most accurate scientific evidence. Specifically, … Read more
Maskless spring breakers are flocking to US beaches, more Americans flew in the last five days than in the five preceding Christmas, coronavirus may be set to surge again – and it all has US officials in an anxious bout of déjà vu. New daily COVID-19 infections fell dramatically for six weeks, but keep stalling … Read more
Nine in 10 vaccinated Americans have received their second dose against COVID – but more than 1.4 million people are either late getting their second shot or never received it, CDC report finds A new CDC report looked at nearly 12.5 million people who received their first coronavirus vaccine dose from December 14 to February … Read more
Social distancing in classrooms where children sit six feet apart is NOT necessary and they’re no better off than sitting three feet apart, new study finds as Biden pushes for children to get back to school A new study looked at 251 Massachusetts school districts open for in-person learning in fall 2020 that had six … Read more
While the coronavirus pandemic rose to new heights in the U.S., the ‘silent epidemic’ of opioid overdose deaths worsened amid lockdowns, new research suggests. Opioid deaths increased by nearly a quarter in Cook County, Illinois – the county where Chicago is located – during an 11-week stay-at-home order from late March to May, 2020, researchers … Read more
Children and young adults from minority communities made up a disproportionate amount of COVID-19 cases in 2020, according to a new CDC report that looked at 700,000 cases across 15 states. Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander children, Native American/Alaska Native children, and Hispanic/Latino children were most likely to be infected across the full year, according to the … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently urging caution in states that are opening up because the majority of the population is unvaccinated. As of Wednesday morning, 61 million people in the U.S. – or 18.4 percent of the population – have received an initial dose and 32.1 million – 9.7 percent – … Read more
U.S. COVID vaccinations top 31 million and SURPASS the number of cases the country has recorded during the pandemic: Johns Hopkins expert says CDC advice that does NOT let grandparents travel is ‘too restrictive’ More than 31 million Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 That is more than the 29 million Americans who have … Read more
Has Covid’s variant-fueled fourth wave begun in Florida? ER visits for coronavirus symptoms are 30% higher in the Sunshine State compared to the rest of the US New CDC data shows that 2.6% of all emergency department visits in Florida are for coronavirus-like illness This figure is 30% higher than the 2% seen for emergency department … Read more
Americans who are overweight or obese make up more than 73 percent of those who die of the virus, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveal. People who were obese made up nearly half of all fatalities among hospitalized coronavirus patients logged in the new report. Those figures align with the overall … Read more