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Not Enough Data to Support Multiple Annual COVID Boosters, CDC Advisers Say

(Reuters) – There is not sufficient evidence to recommend more than one COVID-19 booster shot a year for older people and those with weakened immune systems, an expert advisory group to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday. The COVID-19 working group of the CDC’s […]

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CDC Announces Negative COVID-19 Test Requirement from Air Passengers Entering the United States from the People’s Republic of China

CDC is announcing today that it will implement a requirement for a negative COVID-19 test or documentation of recovery for air passengers boarding flights to the United States originating from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau. CDC is announcing this […]

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Encuentros sociales y sexuales más seguros y la viruela símica o del mono

Mientras los CDC trabajan para contener el brote de viruela símica actual y aprender más acerca del virus, esta información puede ayudarle a tomar decisiones fundamentadas cuando esté en situaciones o lugares donde pueda propagarse la viruela símica o del mono. La viruela símica o del mono suele transmitirse a […]

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CDC Warns About Potentially Deadly Virus in Infants

The potentially fatal parechovirus is now circulating in multiple states, causing fevers, seizures, and sepsis-like symptoms, including confusion and extreme pain, according to the CDC. Human parechoviruses are common in children, and most have been infected before they start kindergarten, the CDC said. Between ages 6 months and 5 years, symptoms include […]

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CDC Identifies Two Monkeypox Strains in US; Provides Updates on Investigation

At least two strains of monkeypox are currently circulating in the United States, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday. Most cases in the United States involve the same strain that has been spreading in the United Kingdom and Europe, but investigators have also detected […]

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Number of US Monkeypox Cases Grows to 10, CDC Says

The CDC website said that as of 5 p.m. Thursday, health officials had identified two cases in Florida, two cases in Utah, and one case each in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, and Washington state. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, said Thursday that most of the cases “are within gay [and] […]

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CDC: Omicron Hospitalization Doubled in Unvaxxed Children

Unvaccinated children ages 5 to 11 were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 during the Omicron wave, and nearly a third of hospitalized kids overall had no underlying medical conditions while about a fifth required intensive care unit (ICU) admission, researchers found. From Dec. 19, 2021 […]

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CDC: Most Americans Have COVID-19 Antibodies

About 95% of Americans ages 16 and older have coronavirus antibodies, according to CDC data from testing blood donor samples. The percentage includes antibodies formed from both vaccinations and COVID-19 infections, with nearly 70% of people ages 16 and up having received at least one vaccine dose, the data shows. The seroprevalence […]

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