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Your questions about flu season and vaccines answered as a COVID winter looms

This year we're looking down the barrel of an unusual flu season. So when it comes to COVID, flu and vaccination, what's changed — and what hasn't — since last winter?

ABC News · Apr 19, 2022

First Thing: Russia has begun battle to seize east of Ukraine, says Zelenskiy

Russian troops have begun the battle for the Donbas, Ukrainian president says in video address

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2022

US mask mandate for planes, other travel voided by federal judge in Florida

The decision by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention improperly failed to justify its decision and did not follow proper rulemaking.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 18, 2022

Do you need a second booster shot? An epidemiologist scoured the latest research and has some answers

In late March 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a second booster shot of COVID-19 vaccines for vulnerable populations in the U.S., a move that was soon after endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People ages 50 years and older and certain immunocompromised individuals who…

The Conversation · Apr 13, 2022

STDs like syphilis, gonorrhea increased amid COVID in 2020

While the world was contending with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, sexually transmitted diseases were causing their own brand of stateside chaos, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tribune News Service · Apr 12, 2022

Why calling the highly contagious COVID-19 omicron BA.2 a 'stealth variant' is a misnomer

BA.2, the newest subvariant of omicron, is highly transmissible and accounts for 55% of COVID-19 infections in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2022

Illinois COVID-19 cases rising: ‘Critically important’ for immunocompromised to get vaccinated, boosted

Coronavirus cases have increased in Chicago by 27% since last week. And for the first time in about a month, four southern Illinois counties have hit the “high transmission” threshold set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meaning masks are recommended for people gathering…

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 8, 2022

‘Stomach flu’ on the rise again in US. 5 things to know about noroviruses

While COVID-19 cases continue to drop in the U.S., outbreaks of another virus — the stomach flu — are ramping up, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Tribune News Service · Apr 7, 2022

CDC head plans to review agency after COVID response criticism

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to conduct a review after facing a wave of criticism for its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2022

Three states sue Biden administration over ending Title 42 policy

Missouri, Arizona and Louisiana say the move would lead to a ‘crisis’ at the US-Mexico border.

Al Jazeera · Apr 4, 2022