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Opinion: This Isn't COVID's Final Act

Wed, 2023-09-13 10:42 — mike kraft

Opinion | This Isn't COVID's Final Act We must keep the virus, and long COVID, center stage Stuart Katz, MD, Alice Perlowski, MD, MA, and Brittany Taylor, MPH medpagetoday

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U.S. CDC's New Chief Plans to Rebuild Trust in the Agency

Mon, 2023-09-11 17:10 — mike kraft

CDC's New Chief Plans to Rebuild Trust in the Agency 'Trust is absolutely foundational to our ability to help Americans,' says Mandy Cohen Michael DePeau-Wilson medpagetoday

New CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, wants to rebuild trust in the agency -- both internally and with the general public -- through improving communication, focusing on data collection, and translating that data into rapid responses to public health crises.

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U.S. CDC launches ad campaign to explain how flu vaccinations reduce infection impacts

Mon, 2023-09-11 10:50 — mike kraft

Exclusive: CDC hopes new ‘Wild to Mild’ ad campaign will tame skepticism about flu vaccines | CNN Some Americans have given up on flu shots because almost everyone remembers a season they got one and then got sick anyway. Brenda Goodman CNN

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Analysis: Covid's "new normal" has set in but there are issues in coping with it.

Mon, 2023-09-11 10:23 — mike kraft

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Group of 20 agree to increase clean energy but no deal on phasing out fossil fuels

Mon, 2023-09-11 10:08 — mike kraft

Group of 20 countries agree to increase clean energy but reach no deal on phasing out fossil fuels Group of 20 leaders have agreed to triple renewable energy and try to increase the funds for climate change-related disasters but maintained the status quo with regards to phasing out carbon spewing coal. AP News

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U.S. and Canada: Cancer diagnoses fell early in COVID pandemic, but many types eventually climbed again

Thu, 2023-09-07 11:39 — mike kraft

Cancer diagnoses fell early in COVID pandemic, but many types eventually climbed again Roberto Jimenez / iStock CIDRAP

A pair of new studies documents initial drops—and, in some cases, rebounds—in cancer diagnoses in Canada and the United States in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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U.S. hospitals see rise in Covid cases but less severe cases

Thu, 2023-09-07 10:37 — mike kraft

In the ICU, doctors see rise in Covid cases but less severe disease Hospitalizations from Covid are still happening, but in many instances, patients aren't getting as sick as in the early days of the pandemic. NBC News

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Earth just had its hottest summer on record, U.N. says. "Climate breakdown has begun"

Wed, 2023-09-06 17:10 — mike kraft

Earth just had its hottest summer on record, U.N. says, warning "climate breakdown has begun" "Climate breakdown has begun," U.N. chief says, adding: "The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting." CBS News

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Analysis: Three Covid pandemic lessons that could help global leaders prevent the next pandemic

Wed, 2023-09-06 10:03 — mike kraft

Three lessons from Covid that could help global leaders prevent the next pandemic "If we wanted to, this could be the last pandemic. It's a political choice,” said Joanne Liu, a professor at McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health. Theresa Gaffney STAT

Everyone has things that, looking back, they would have done differently in the early days of 2020, had they known how the Covid-19 pandemic would tear across the globe. But those regrets may be particularly poignant for global leaders whose actions (or lack thereof) had direct impacts on how Covid-19 spread.

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Covid booster rollout: Are we acting fast enough to fend off the next round?

Wed, 2023-09-06 09:30 — mike kraft

CDC says there are no plans to bring back mask mandates, even as Covid cases rise The CDC could sign off on the new Covid boosters as soon as Sept. 12. Will that be soon enough to ward off a winter surge? NBC News

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Our goal is to release and recommend the vaccine so that it can coincide as much as possible with the peak of the season," Dr. Nirav Shah, CDC's principal deputy director, said in an interview.

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