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Commentary: Finally, some promising news on opioids for patients in severe pain

The U.S. remains in the midst of an ever-worsening drug overdose crisis. Because prescription opioids drove its earlier phases, the nation responded by drastically reducing access to those drugs — with prescriptions dropping by nearly 50% over the last decade. But it’s now clear that approach was ineffective at combating…

Los Angeles Times

Masking up by choice: Colleges see hope against flu as students continue pandemic practices

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Katie Jordan suspects she never once wore a mask.

Tribune News Service

China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases

China's National Health Commission said in a statement it would no longer publish daily data and that "from now on, the Chinese CDC will release relevant COVID information for reference and research."

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China’s Zhejiang Has 1 Mln Daily COVID Cases, Expected to Double

China's Zhejiang, a big industrial province near Shanghai, is battling around a million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, the provincial government said on Sunday. Despite a record surge of cases nationwide, China reported no COVID deaths on the mainland for the five…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Flu starting to wane in US after brutal start to season

Flu is decreasing in many parts of the country after an alarmingly early and strong start to the season

The Independent UK

75% of Florida seniors not boosted ahead of the holidays

TAMPA, Fla. — Jeff Watson got the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it became available. He took the first booster shot, too.

Tribune News Service

Is California’s winter COVID-19 surge sputtering?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It’s early yet, but there are signs the dreaded holiday surge in COVID-19 cases may be losing steam, with cases and deaths at a fraction of the levels seen around the same time in 2020 and 2021.

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Omicron Subvariant XBB Jumps to 18% of US COVID Cases

The highly contagious Omicron subvariant XBB jumped to 18% of national prevalence and accounted for more than 50% of COVID-19 cases in the Northeast, coinciding with holiday travel for millions of Americans. In the week ended Dec.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Triangle of Sadness’ star Charlbi Dean, 32, died of rare infection

“Triangle of Sadness” star Charlbi Dean’s cause of death has been revealed, months after the South African actress died suddenly at age 32.

Tribune News Service

Should you go sick to a party? How to navigate travel, family gatherings during tripledemic

MIAMI -- It seems like whenever there’s a party, someone goes home sick.

Miami Herald

Declining US life expectancy fell further in 2021 due to COVID and drug overdoses

If the length of our lives is a good measure of our well-being, the United States is in some trouble.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: What if regulation is unconstitutional?

Is regulation as we know it unconstitutional? It’s not inconceivable that, sometime soon, the U.S. Supreme Court could reach such a conclusion, invalidating much of the vast administrative apparatus created to promote such public goods as clean air, workplace safety and financial stability.

Tribune News Service

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

HIV outbreak persists as officials push back against containment efforts

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Brooke Parker has spent the past two years combing riverside homeless encampments, abandoned houses, and less traveled roads to help contain a lingering HIV outbreak that has disproportionately affected those who live on society’s margins.

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WEKU

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.

Salon

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?"

Tribune News Service

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.

Reason

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,…

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Chicago Sun-Times

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.”

Fortune

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.

The Independent UK

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

Salon

HIV outbreak in West Virginia

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

Roll Call

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.

The Guardian - US

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’

WEKU

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.

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