Analysis: A Trump administration could split up the CDC

Fueled by a distrust of the CDC’s handling of Covid-19 and the recommendations it made on measures like masking and vaccines, many conservatives want the agency dismantled — and hope a second Trump administration could make it happen.

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Blood Test Could Predict Long-Term COVID-19 Lung Problems --University of Virginia research

UVA Health researchers have discovered a potential way to predict which patients with severe COVID-19 are likely to recover well and which are likely to suffer “long-haul” lung problems. That finding could help doctors better personalize treatments for individual patients.

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Non-COVID hospital deaths rose during pandemic, varied by urban or rural setting

Analysis: Overview of how COVID both changed America and then faded into background

Long COVID: More on research efforts

Analysis: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health

U.S. expanding airport nasal swabbing to Chicago and Miami

Covid vaccines cut risk of virus-related heart failure and blood clots--international study

Dengue: Brazil faces doubling of cases as temperatures rise

U.S. schools face deadline as COVID-19 relief funds set to expire

 

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Leading U.S. health care data company to provide medical records for free

 

Leading health data logistics company Datavant announced Tuesday it will no longer be charging patients for health records requests as part of what it calls its commitment to ensuring a “safe flow of patient information across the healthcare ecosystem.”

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Big US drug companies stage legal battle against Biden's plan to reduce cost of certain medicines.

West Virginia legislature passes bill weakening one of the country’s strictest child vaccination laws

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West Virginia, with some of the lowest life expectancy rates in the U.S. and a quarter of all children living in poverty, is one of only two states, along with California, that don’t permit nonmedical exemptions to vaccinations as a condition for school entry.

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Opinion: No parent who has seen the children I’ve treated for measles would refuse a vaccine

CDC team to help Chicago responsed to measles outbreak

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