Cuomo threatens to withhold COVID-19 vaccine from New York until his own doctors deem it safe because he doesn’t trust the Trump administration Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Monday he would only distribute a vaccine once his own ‘task force’ of doctors says it’s safe In a lengthy state document laying out New York’s vaccine … Read more
White college-aged men in the US are the least likely to wash their hands amid the coronavirus pandemic, a new report finds. This group had the fewest number who reported regularly remembering to wash their hands before eating at a restaurant or after using the bathroom, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed … Read more
Second-in-command of U.S. Marines tests positive for COVID as chairman of joint chiefs and roll call of senior military leaders quarantine after White House reception for Gold Star families General Gary Thomas, 58, had his positive test confirmed on Wednesday Thomas had been in self-quarantine since Tuesday as a cautionary measure He had come into … Read more
Nearly 15% of US adults are uninsured: Two-thirds of under-30s and more than 80% of older adults who don’t have health care say they can’t afford it, CDC report finds A new CDC report found that 14.5% of adults between ages 18 and 64 were uninsured in 2019 – s one-third drop from 20.4% in … Read more
Over the last month, coronavirus cases among American 18- to 22-year-olds surged by 55 percent nationwide, with case rates more than doubling among college-age people in the Northeast and Midwest, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveal. As adolescents and young adults across the nation headed back to college last month, campuses … Read more
Pre-teen and teenage children are about twice as likely as younger kids to catch coronavirus and spread it at school, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveals. Since the COVID-19 pandemic really kicked off in the US in March, 277,285 children have caught the virus. Older and Latinx children were each about twice … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it mistakenly published guidance suggesting that the novel coronavirus spreads through the air. ”A draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency’s official website,’ the agency in a statement. ‘CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmission of … Read more
CDC updates its guidance to warn coronavirus IS airborne and can spread through breathing with infected particles lingering in the air CDC has updated its Covid guidance to make it clear that the virus is airborne Agency once said the virus is only spread by coughs and sneezes between people who are in close contact, … Read more
Dr Anthony Fauci is warning that bars and restaurants should not reopen after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research showed that people who recently dined out or went to bars are two-times more likely to test positive for coronavirus. ‘When you have restaurants, indoors, in a situation where you have a high degree of … Read more
Twelve US states now have obesity rates of at least 35 percent – more than ever before, a new map reveals. More than one-third of adults in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia were dangerously overweight in 2019, according to the data released on Thursday by … Read more
Stillbirths have surged up to 50 percent amid lockdowns in the coronavirus pandemic as pregnant women avoid seeking care, global research reveals Swedish researchers found that the stillbirth rate increased from seven per 1,000 births to 21 per 1,000 births after pandemic lockdowns The number of births at hospitals declined as women avoided health care … Read more
President Donald Trump contradicted his Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head saying he was ‘confused’ and ‘mistaken’ when he told Congress a coronavirus vaccine wouldn’t be widely available until the second quarter of next year. Trump also said Dr. Robert Redfield must have ‘misunderstood’ a question when he told a Senate committee, ‘I might even … Read more
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr Robert Redfield claimed that masks offer more certain protection against coronavirus than vaccines will – at least in the immediate future. ‘I might say this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when I take a vaccine’ said Dr Redfield … Read more