Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from CDC

Long COVID can be deadly, CDC report warns

CDC analysis shows long COVID played a role in the deaths of at least 3,500 people in the U.S., and the real figure is likely higher.

Axios

Health officials are urging masks again amid high COVID, flu levels

LOS ANGELES — With COVID-19, the flu and other respiratory diseases circulating widely in Los Angeles County and elsewhere, many officials are urging residents to use a familiar tool to help thwart transmission: masks.

Los Angeles Times

Sickle cell cure will be cost-effective if health disparities considered -study finds

(This Dec.13 story has been corrected to remove reference to Sanofi in the fifth paragraph)

Reuters

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

What is RSV? Symptoms explained as cases and hospital admissions rise in Europe

Countries such as Ireland, Spain, France, Sweden and the US have reported hospital admissions for RSV

Evening Standard

Azeem Rafiq to provide fresh testimony on racism in cricket to DCMS committee

The 31-year-old first appeared before MPs in November last year

The Independent UK

Philly's new effort to contain mpox may include vaccine doses, chased with a free cocktail

PHILADELPHIA — As a thumping bass beat shook the floor, Gregory Pierce praised the good people and good vibes at Level Up, a Center City club.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Authorities are urging indoor masking in major cities as the 'tripledemic' rages

The CDC is advising people to practice indoor masking in nearly a tenth of U.S. counties, as three highly contagious respiratory viruses sweep the country.

WEKU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

In Illinois, holiday season bringing another rise in COVID-19

CHICAGO — In what’s become an unwelcome tradition over the past two years, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been on the rise again in Illinois amid the holiday season.

Chicago Tribune

Fifteen children have died from Strep A in the UK in recent weeks. Could an outbreak in the US follow?

Amid a recent spike in deaths from Strep A infections in the UK, the CDC is now closely monitoring a possible increase of the bacterial infections in the US. A paediatric infectious disease expert tells Andrea Blanco that previous outbreaks in Britain have not had an impact in America, but…

The Independent UK

DeSantis' pitch: Accept mass death

Ron DeSantis hopes to beat Trump by running as the manly man who rejects vaccines and welcomes mass death

Salon

COVID, flu, RSV: The benefits of advocating for boosters in the workplace–and how to go about it

The return to the office has turned into a superspreader event.

Fortune

College Vaccine Booster Mandates Don't Make Any Medical or Ethical Sense, New Study Concludes

College students should be able to use their own judgment on COVID boosters, not be forced into them by learning institutions.

Reason

Fifteen children have died from Strep A in the UK in recent weeks. Could an outbreak in the US follow?

The Independent UK

RSV 'spreading rapidly' in UK - all you need to know about contagious winter virus

A little-known illness, RSV, presents with symptoms similar to a cold and elements easily mistaken for Covid puts thousands of our kids in hospital each year.

Daily Mirror

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

US to appeal ruling that struck down pandemic-era border policy

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration told a Washington federal court Wednesday that it will appeal a ruling that struck down pandemic-related asylum restrictions known as Title 42.

The Independent UK

Fifteen children have died from Strep A in the UK in recent weeks. Could an outbreak in the US follow?

Tribune News Service

CDC head asks for COVID-19 funding, data as Hill interest fades

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is running out of ways to be creative with its limited pandemic funds and needs more flexibility from Congress, Director Rochelle Walensky told CQ Roll Call in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Former CNN anchor says she’s moving to New York to have her baby because she’s Black

‘It’s troubling that I have to make this shift, but that’s what’s happening’

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Roll Call

US to appeal ruling that struck down pandemic-era border policy - Roll Call

The government told a Washington federal court Wednesday that it will appeal a ruling that struck down pandemic-related asylum restrictions.

Roll Call

CDC head asks for COVID-19 funding, data as Hill interest fades - Roll Call

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky says her agency needs more authority to gather data to fight public health threats such as COVID-19, mpox.

Tribune News Service

Much of the CDC is working remotely. That could make changing the agency difficult

ATLANTA — Earlier this year, top leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a monumental task: turning the sprawling, labyrinthine organization known for its highly specialized, academically focused scientific research into a sleek, flexible public health response agency primed to serve the American public. It’s an attempt…

Tribune News Service

Flu levels high, vaccinations rates low among pregnant women

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu activity around the nation is increasing. Vaccination can help prevent serious illness, especially in high-risk groups, like pregnant women, but the CDC says that's the group showing lower vaccination rates.

Tribune News Service

You’ve got COVID — but what are the rules these days?

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Someone at your office had COVID a few days ago and is now back at their desk in the cubicle next to yours. That can’t be okay, can it?

Fortune

Thanksgiving kicked off a COVID surge, and it's slamming U.S. hospitals already battling the tripledemic: ‘It’s the perfect storm for a terrible holiday season’

Residents of nearly 6% of U.S. counties should mask up due to high levels of COVID hospital admissions, CDC head Dr. Rochelle Walensky said, in addition to those who travel by plane, train, or bus.

Los Angeles Times

Senior citizens are hit hard as COVID-19 surges across California

LOS ANGELES — There has been a troubling spike in coronavirus-positive hospital admissions among seniors in California, rising to levels not seen since the summer omicron surge.

1 … 128 129 130 131

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

UK Health Security Agency

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

316 stories

Prevent

308 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.