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Beyond vaccine hesitancy: Understanding systemic barriers to getting vaccinated

The term “vaccine hesitancy” was in wide use years before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The term focuses on individual-level attitudes toward vaccines. Throughout the pandemic, much popular and scholarly discussion about COVID-19 transmission focused on individual-level decisions, making it easy to blame the unvaccinated.

The Conversation

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

Paxlovid has been free so far. Next year, sticker shock awaits

Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing long COVID. But the government plans to stop footing the bill…

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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

Oregon's Anti-Vape Laws Will Put This Deaf Immigrant's Hookah Shop Out of Business

You can smoke all the pot you want, but flavored tobacco or nicotine is soon to be illegal.

Reason

Uptick sees boosters called for

The Public Health Ministry is urging people to get boosters within four months of receiving their last Covid-19 vaccination as the number of infections is back on the rise.

Bangkok Post

Tributes to Northumberland County Council's departing public health boss who steered county through Covid

Liz Morgan has been with the council for six years

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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

Scarlet fever cases confirmed at Derry primary school as Public Health Agency issue statement

There has been a rise in cases

Belfast Live

NHS advice to Glasgow parents as Strep A UK death toll rises to 15

Local health chiefs would not confirm if there are any Strep A cases in schools and nurseries in Glasgow, but Public Health Scotland say infections have been rising since October.

Glasgow Live

Mum who had to take daughter to hospital with scarlet fever calls for schools to shut early

Wales as nation has higher infection rate than any part of England

Wales Online

Racism poses public health threat to millions worldwide, finds report

Discrimination has ‘profound’ effect on health of disadvantaged people, says Lancet review

The Guardian - UK

Anutin denies shifting blame

Public Health Minister and Bhumjaithai Party leader Anutin Charnvirakul on Thursday denied attempting to turn the tables on fellow coalition member Democrat Party over matters related to the control of cannabis.

Bangkok Post

How Greater Manchester is tackling Strep A as children's wards 'never been under so much pressure'

Scarlet fever cases in our region have yet to peak, a public health boss has warned

Manchester Evening News

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The Texas Tribune

Texas hits 1,000 days under Greg Abbott’s public health disaster as a new COVID-19 wave and legislative session loom

After more than 92,000 deaths and 8 million reported COVID-19 cases in Texas, the state remains one of less than a dozen still under a statewide disaster or public health emergency.

Los Angeles Times

Will you mask up again? A January mandate looms for LA if COVID-19 wave worsens

LOS ANGELES — With coronavirus cases surging and hospitalizations worsening, Los Angeles County once again faces the possibility of a renewed public indoor mask mandate.

Manchester Evening News

WATCH: All the advice parents need on Strep A from Greater Manchester health experts

The M.E.N spoke to a GP and Manchester’s Director of Public Health about the infection

Evening Standard

Strep A infection confirmed in child’s death in Ireland

Public health staff are supporting the family of the four-year-old child, the HSE said

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The Independent UK

Death of child, 4, in Ireland, confirmed as Strep A

Public health staff are supporting the family of the four-year-old child, the HSE said

The Guardian - AU

Decriminalising cannabis could save Australian taxpayers $850m a year, report finds

New public health research says Australia’s prohibition approach to marijuana is not keeping pace with global best practice cannabis policy

Dynamite News

COVID-19 Vaccinations Reduce Risk Of Reinfection By 50 Per Cent

These findings were revealed in an analysis published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, which is coordinated by Lamberto Manzoli, medical epidemiologist as well as Director of the School of Public Health and Hygiene of the University of Bologna. Read on for details:

The Independent UK

Authorities move to reassure parents as Strep A confirmed in child’s death

Public health staff are supporting the family of the four-year-old child, the HSE said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Paxlovid free so far, but sticker shock awaits next year if you need the COVID treatment

Within months, the government plans to stop footing the bill — and millions of the uninsured and seniors might have to pay full price. Experts say that means fewer people will get the potentially life-saving treatments.

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.

Nottingham Post

Nottingham parents facing NHS 111 waits due to "sheer volume" of Strep A calls

Nottingham's director of public health says there are no cases of invasive Strep A in the city and that the illness is usually mild

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