Coronavirus
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COVID boosters correlate with worse survival rates for cancer with third-most deaths: study
Trump administration policy tug-of-war between big medical groups that want COVID vaccines back on CDC schedule for healthy kids and pregnant women, groups that want mandate ban extended to health sciences students.
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FDA, CDC advisers say lost pregnancies higher than expected following early mRNA vaccination
Lower-than-expected pregnancy loss following flu vaccine, however. HHS wants 18-month hold on FOIA litigation related to vaccines including for COVID, litigant's lawyer says.
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COVID cases increase in parts of US, worldwide, amid emerging 'razor blade throat' subvariant
The variant — NB.1.8.1. or “Nimbus” – got the nickname because it can cause painful sore throats.
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Shipments monoclonal antibody treatments to states paused as BA.2 becomes dominant COVID strain
According to the FDA, the monoclonal antibody treatment developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology may not be effective against BA.2.
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COVID hospitalizations reach two-year low as omicron wave continues to ebb
Authorities have at times failed to distinguish between hospitalizations “with” the virus and due to it.
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Toilet-tattling? Trump COVID adviser criticizes 'smart toilet' proposal for COVID testing
Digital civil liberties group warns that smart toilets could raise thorny consent issues and may be closest to 2014 Supreme Court decision on warrantless seizure of cell phone data.
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CDC ends warning on cruise ship travel
The agency announced the decision nearly two years after imposing scaled warnings
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Biden administration announces end to Title 42 enforcement on immigration during pandemic
Enforcement of the 1940s law was impose by the Trump administration
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House Republicans find CDC ignored norms to allow teachers union input in COVID guidances on schools
The American Federation of Teachers was afforded a high degree of input in the CDC's school reopening guidance.
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Fauci: Americans should prepare for possibility of fresh COVID-19 restrictions
The White House adviser said he does not currently believe the U.S. is headed toward another "lockdown," but people should be prepared for the possibility.
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BA.2 subvariant of Omicron becomes dominant COVID-19 strain the U.S.
The subvariant accounts for around 55% of sequenced COVID-19 cases, says the CDC.
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FDA authorizes second COVID-19 booster for people 50 and older
Providers will be given the go-ahead to begin administering the fourth shot once CDC director Rochelle Walensky signs off on the measure.
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China begins biggest COVID lockdown since pandemic's start, amid case spike in Shanghai
Roughly 3,500 new cases were reported Sunday in the city of 26 million people