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Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired – Nature
“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details. When Susan Monarez took the helm of the beleaguered US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in late July, she had her work cut out for her. Public trust in…
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COVID-19 – Global Situation
Editor’s Note: You can keep up with World Health, but do not rely on Trump Administration to keep you aware. They are America First, remember: He does not care about the World Health, period…. Since mid-February 2025, according to data available from sentinel sites, global SARS-CoV-2 activity has been increasing, with the test positivity rate…
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Assessment Covid-19 leaked from Chinese lab is a minority view within US intel community, sources say | CNN Politics
By Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Pamela Brown, CNN Updated 9:22 PM EST, Mon February 27, 2023 The Department of Energy’s low-confidence assessment that Covid-19 most likely originated from a laboratory leak in China is still a minority view within the intelligence community, three sources familiar with the intelligence community’s findings tell CNN.…
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Who should get a second Covid-19 vaccine booster shot — and when? – Vox
There is no right or wrong answer on getting another booster shot. Here’s what to consider. By Dylan Scott@dylanlscott dylan.scott@vox.com, Mar 31, 2022, 2:30pm EDT The Biden administration has approved a fourth Covid-19 vaccine shot for all Americans over age 50 and for all adults who are immunocompromised. But does that mean everybody who is…
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Alabama woman nearly killed by COVID while pregnant: ‘It all could have been prevented if I had gotten a vaccination’ | al.com
Updated: Oct. 19, 2021, 2:30 p.m. | Published: Oct. 19, 2021, 10:56 a.m. Sometimes when she’s feeding her infant daughter, Amanda Harrison is overcome with emotion and has to wipe away tears of gratitude. She is lucky to be here, holding her baby. Harrison was 29 weeks pregnant and unvaccinated when she got sick with…
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Unvaccinated Adults 11 Times More Likely to Die from Covid-19: CDC – Rolling Stone
Hint: A lot more likely By Peter Wade Getting vaccinated can significantly reduce your chances of dying from Covid-19. Like, really significantly. Throughout the month of August, unvaccinated adults were 11 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than fully vaccinated adults, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.…
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Why Are So Many Knowledge Workers Quitting? | The New Yorker
The coronavirus pandemic threw everyone into Walden Pond. By Cal Newport, August 16, 2021 Last spring, a friend of mine, a writer and executive coach named Brad Stulberg, received a troubling call from one of his clients. The client, an executive, had suddenly started losing many of his best employees, and he couldn’t really explain…
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Rising number of Baby Boomers retirements may create ‘eye-opening’ changes, jobs, business, economy, Dayton, Kettering | Dayton daily news
Local News | July 17, 2021, By Nick Blizzard The growing number of Baby Boomer retirements nationwide is accelerating, raising concerns locally about losing a large chunk of the workforce sooner than expected. Data shows nearly 6 million more Boomers in the U.S. retired from October 2020 through March of this year than the same…
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The Pandemic Led To The Biggest Drop In U.S. Life Expectancy Since WWII, Study Finds : Coronavirus Updates : NPR
June 23, 20216:32 PM ET Heard on Morning Edition, By Allison Aubrey Twitter A new study estimates that life expectancy in the U.S. decreased by nearly two years between 2018 and 2020, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And the declines were most pronounced among minority groups, including Black and Hispanic people. In 2018, average…
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Should you wear a mask indoors? 7 vaccinated experts share their plans
Amid new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, many fully vaccinated people in the United States have been eager to hang up their masks, while others are still a little hesitant to give up the protective face coverings. The guidance, which was released in May and said that fully vaccinated people did…
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How older adults can get back into physical exercise following months of pandemic rules – The Washington Post
By Judith Graham, May 31, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. PDT Alice Herb, 88, an intrepid New Yorker, is used to walking miles around Manhattan. But after this year of being shut inside, trying to avoid covid-19, she has noticed a big difference in how she feels. “Physically, I’m out of shape,” she told me. “The…
