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- Centers for Disease Control And Prevention: Their website has updates and a national map.
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There's a new bulletin from Florida's surgeon general. Vaccine experts and historians interviewed for this article can’t remember another state health leader urging residents to avoid an FDA-approved vaccine. -
Although public health officials recommend the newly approved COVID vaccine for everyone age 6 months and older, it may make more sense to wait until closer to the holiday season. -
COVID-19 cases are once again recording a summer spike with some of the highest weekly case reports seen this year. But what is our relationship with COVID four years after the pandemic outbreak? -
Advisers ultimately said sticking with JN.1 rather than its offshoots promises to offer a better chance at cross-protection. The FDA will decide the final recipe soon.
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In the first weeks of outbreak, the Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins, despite publicly declaring it supported an open scientific inquiry, an AP investigation finds. -
The court issued an order scheduling the arguments for June 5 in the case, which is one of a series of similar class-action lawsuits filed against colleges in the state. -
The county commission plans to use about $4.5 million in leftover money from the American Rescue Plan. Orange would be the first Florida county to do so. -
Researchers found the antiviral treatment was disproportionately given to patients with lower risk of severe infection and, if properly utilized, more than 16,000 COVID deaths could have been prevented. -
Thousands of people are still dying with COVID, but the federal government has mostly handed over responsibility to the people to weather the seasonal surges with their own strategies. -
Latinos are still more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID — so doctors and activists hope younger, more educated voices can convince the vulnerable to get vaccinated. -
Scientists hope to improve guidance for how humans interact with wildlife to prevent future disease outbreaks. -
After hospitals, pharmacies and the state refused to help, an Orlando mother shares her journey in trying to get her 8-month-old daughter the COVID-19 vaccination.
