insert_link Health & Wellness CDC warns older adults, travelers in COVID high-risk groups not to take Cruises, even if they’re Vaccinated The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance for travelers who are at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 to recommend they avoid cruise ships, regardless of vaccination status. The new guidance applies to older adults, people with certain medical conditions and pregnant and recently pregnant people. Prior to last Friday’s announcement, the agency recommended that only people who were not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 avoid cruise ships. The change comes […] todayAugust 26, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness Experts say COVID-19 will go from Pandemic to Endemic – part of our new “Normal” When is this finally going to end? That's the question on many minds after a year of living through the COVID-19 pandemic. But public health experts say we do have an answer, and you're not going to like it: COVID-19 is never going to end. It now seems poised to become an endemic disease — one that is always a part of our environment, no matter what we do. "We've been […] todayMarch 18, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness New CDC director says U.K. variant could be “dominant strain” in U.S. by March Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), predicted Sunday that a new strain of the coronavirus that was first identified in the United Kingdom and has since been detected in the U.S. may be the "dominant strain" here by the end of March. In an interview with "Face the Nation," Walensky said there are more than 1,000 cases of the U.K. variant, known as […] todayFebruary 16, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness Global death toll from COVID-19 tops 2M amid vaccine rollout The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat. The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The number of dead, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Brussels, Mecca, Minsk […] todayJanuary 18, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness WHO declares Coronavirus a Pandemic — here’s what that means The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on Wednesday, clarifying weeks of confusion over whether or not it constituted one. "We expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths and the number of affected countries, climb, even higher,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, told reporters during a press conference. "And we're deeply concerned — most by the alarming levels of spread […] todayMarch 12, 2020
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