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Is it COVID, the flu, RSV or just a cold? Here’s what your symptoms could mean

There’s a trio of viruses spreading in the U.S. — COVID-19, the flu and RSV — and some in the medical world are calling it a “tripledemic.”

McClatchy Washington Bureau

American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades

A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life expectancy in the U.S. for a second year in a row.

WEKU

Money for war, none for 9/11 responders

"How can we increase the money for defense and not put money in the budget for the first defenders on 9/11?"

Salon

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2022 has been a deadly year for eating oysters in Florida

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Those sweet shellfish may be tempting, but eating oysters in Florida has been dangerous this year.

Tribune News Service

Seventh Circuit Rejects Free Speech / Free Exercise Arguments Against Mask Mandate

From Mahwikizi v. CDC, decided Monday by the Seventh Circuit (Judges Frank Easterbrook, Diane Wood & Thomas Kirsch II): Mahwikizi works for a rideshare business. As a Catholic, he practices the "Good Samaritan Principle," which instructs him to help those in need. He says that doing so became difficult when,…

Reason

As virus infections rise, dust off masks to wear in busy public places

Masks reduce the risk of viral transmission from the so-called “tripledemic.”

Chicago Sun-Times

It's not just you. Everyone really is sick this holiday season as the U.S. battles a ‘worst in a decade’ flu and rising COVID cases

The winter COVID surge is only part of the problem, as the U.S. confronts a flu for the record books and a fierce resurgence of RSV, among other infections.

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Man who threatened to kill CDC head pleads guilty to charges

A Mississippi man who threatened to kill Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has pleaded guilty to making threats in interstate commerce

The Independent UK

HIV outbreak in West Virginia

Political winds in the state blow against efforts to control an expanding HIV outbreak

Salon

Supreme Court keeps Title 42 border policy in place for now

More than a dozen Republican-led states asked the Supreme Court on Monday to preserve pandemic-related border restrictions.

Roll Call

US public not warned that monkeys imported from Cambodia carried deadly pathogens

Documents reveal that pathogenic agents, zoonotic bacteria and viruses, including one deemed bioterrorism risk, entered US but ‘no indication CDC has been transparent’

The Guardian - US

Updated COVID booster shots reduce the risk of hospitalization, CDC reports

The CDC came out with two studies to detail the bivalent booster's effectiveness against COVID-related emergency department visits and hospitalization.

WEKU

Lavender spray laced with deadly bacteria kills five-year-old boy, woman and pet racoon

The pet racoon, which belonged to a four-year-old girl, was found to have walked through the perfume after breaking a bottle of it at their home in Texas

Daily Mirror

US health agency accused of bowing to drug industry with new opioid guidance

Doctors say CDC’s softer guidelines ‘tossing aside’ safety limits put lives at risk as opioid epidemic continues to rage in the country

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Federal health order allowing rapid removal of migrants must end Wednesday, court rules

The Biden administration attempted to end Title 42 earlier this year before a federal judge blocked the move. A different federal court has now ordered that the federal health order be lifted.

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Fortune

Changes in sleep, exercise, and diet can put people at risk.

WEKU

Coronavirus FAQ: Is Paxlovid the best treatment? Is it underused in the U.S.?

The drug is the most effective way to cut the risk of severe disease. It's heading to China now. Yet the drug is underused in some places. Why? And are there options if you're not a good candidate?

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Axios

America's historically bad flu season may be peaking

Amid ongoing reports of the U.S. getting pummeled by respiratory illness, including a harsher flu season than we've seen in years, new data indicates flu may be peaking this season.

Orlando Sentinel

Editorial: DeSantis launches a strike against lifesaving science

Throughout the history of public health in the United States, there have been a handful of moments where a broad cross-section of scientists and other leaders spotted something happening and thought “This is new. This is bad. This could change everything.”

Tribune News Service

News briefs

Post-pandemic, CDC faces ‘uphill battle’ for backing in new Congress

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Will immigration surge as asylum rule ends?

Ever since the pandemic began the U.S. has been using a public health rule intended to limit the spread of disease to expel migrants seeking asylum

Chicago Sun-Times

How to avoid binge drinking and support sober loved ones during the holidays

Experts say there are ways to help loved ones who don’t drink, like having non-alcoholic drink options at gatherings.

Inverse

These simple hacks could boost your flu and Covid-19 vaccines’ effectiveness

It's all about doing the things that promote a healthy immune system.

Roll Call

Post-pandemic, CDC faces ‘uphill battle’ for backing in new Congress

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky wants to overhaul the agency but needs Congress' help. And she is losing key allies.

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