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Soon after vaccine advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday voted to recommend updated COVID boosters that target the original virus plus the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, endorsed the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation, paving the way for immunization to begin.In a statement, she said the recommendation followed a

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What Happens at the End of the Covid-19 Public-Health Emergency?

After more than three years of turmoil, disruption and heartache, world leaders are signaling that the Covid-19 emergency is ending. The viral illness that has sickened and killed millions is becoming a more manageable, long-term foe. The World Health Organization on May 5 declared an end to the global public-health emergency.

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CDC panel recommends tweaked COVID-19 booster

a fast-tracked approach. CDC’s director Dr. Rochelle Walensky must give the final sign-off before the shots are available.In June, the FDA ordered vaccine makers to tweak their shots to target BA.4 and BA.5, becoming the so-called "combo shot."FILE - Medical staff at Howard University give COVID-19 Vaccination doses for Hospital Staff Members on Dec.

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CDC orders changes after confusing COVID-19 pandemic response

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - AUGUST 06: A view of the sign of Center for Disease Control headquarters is seen in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on August 06, 2022. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) NEW YORK (AP) - The head of the nation’s top public health agency on Wednesday announced a shake-up of the organization, saying it fell short responding to COVID-19 and needs to become more nimble.The planned changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — CDC leaders call it a "reset"— come amid criticism of the agency’s response to COVID-19, monkeypox and other public health threats.

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CDC endorses more traditional Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for adults

COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax -- a more traditional kind of vaccine, health officials said Tuesday.Regulators authorized the nation’s first so-called protein vaccine against COVID-19 last week, but the final hurdle was a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."If you have been waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine built on a different technology than those previously available, now is the time to join the millions of Americans who have been vaccinated," Dr. Rochelle Walensky, CDC's director, said in a statement, endorsing an earlier decision from an influential advisory panel.Most Americans have gotten at least their primary COVID-19 vaccinations by now, but CDC officials said between 26 million and 37 million adults haven’t had a single dose -- the population that Novavax, for now, will be targeting."We really need to focus on that population," said CDC adviser Dr.

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White House officials push boosters as BA.5 surge intensifies

Members of the White House COVID committee today urged people to get current with their COVID-19 vaccination and boosters, as a more transmissible Omicron variant expands its dominance across much of the country.

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White House updates response plan for infectious COVID variants; pushes boosters

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible and wearing masks indoors as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country.The new variants, labeled BA.4 and BA.5, are offshoots of the omicron strain that has been responsible for nearly all of the virus spread in the U.S. and are even more contagious than their predecessors.

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COVID-19 immunization in young kids begins following CDC nod

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory group on Saturday unanimously recommended Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months old, which was quickly accepted by the CDC.

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COVID-19 vaccine: CDC panel to vote on 1st shots for US kids under 5

COVID-19 shots for babies and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week.The CDC’s committee of experts began debating the two-dose Moderna and the three-dose Pfizer vaccines on Friday and was expected to vote around 12:30 p.m. ET on Saturday.

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US approves first Covid-19 shots for kids aged 6 months to 5 years

kids under 5 — roughly 18 million youngsters — are eligible for the shots, about 1 1/2 years after the vaccines first became available in the US for adults, who have been hit the hardest during the pandemic. The FDA also authorized Moderna's vaccine for school-aged children and teens. Pfizer's shots had previously been the only ones available for those ages.

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9 Monkeypox cases reported in 7 states, CDC says

California; two cases in Florida; one case in Massachusetts; one case in New York; two cases in Utah; one case in Virginia and one case in Washington. CDC Director Dr.

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A third of US should be considering masks amid rise in COVID-19 cases, officials say

FILE IMAGE - A train approaches at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) Park Street Station in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., on April 21, 2022. Photographer: Vanessa Leroy/Bloomberg via Getty Images WASHINGTON - COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States — and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S.

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Mask mandates could return as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations rise

Santa Clarita, CA - March 03: Edith Matus helps customers at Jazmin's Bakery on Main Street in Newhall, Thursday, Mar 3, 2022. The CDCs new COVID 19 thresholds are expected to put LA County in a medium and low transmission phase after months in high WASHINGTON (AP) - COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S.

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data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2020 alone, 79% of all homicides and 53% of all suicides involved a firearm and while all population groups experienced gun-related deaths, some groups were more impacted than others, the CDC noted. Nearly 20,000 Americans were killed in gun homicides in 2020, with the rate increasing 4.6 to 6.1 per 100,000 persons. More than 24,000 Americans killed themselves with firearms in the same year, a slight increase over the 23,888 Americans who died by suicide using a firearm in 2019. "The tragic and historic increase in firearm homicide and the persistently high rates of firearm suicide underscore the urgent need for action to reduce firearm-related deaths.

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CDC: 58% of Americans have had COVID-19

New COVID-19 seroprevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the Omicron surge infected a huge swath of Americans, with overall seroprevalence rising from 33.5% in December of 2021 to 57.7% in February 2022.

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US makes masks mandatory during travel for 2 weeks as Covid-19 rises

CDC order will remain in place at this time," the agency said in a statement on Wednesday.

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Covid comeback seen in parts of US as BA.2 Omicron variant becomes dominant

Covid-19 deaths are running at around 900 per day -- with a total of one million deaths from the disease expected withing about a month.

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US to ease nationwide mask mandate on planes, buses next month

File: People walk through Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, December 2021. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is developing guidance that will ease the nationwide mask mandate for public transit next month, according to a U.S.

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CDC: Many healthy Americans can take a break from masks

students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlined the new set of measures for communities where COVID-19 is easing its grip, with less of a focus on positive test results and more on what’s happening at hospitals.The new system greatly changes the look of the CDC’s risk map and puts more than 70% of the U.S. population in counties where the coronavirus is posing a low or medium threat to hospitals.

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Rate of US COVID-19 cases continues to drop

Today during a White House press briefing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, said she was cautiously optimistic about the trajectory the United States was currently on, 2 months after the Omicron variant became the dominant strain in the nation.

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US donates 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to COVAX

The White House today confirmed the United States has donated 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses — towards a goal of 1.1 billion — to low-income countries via COVAX, the global vaccine sharing program.

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New data show booster doses protect against Omicron

Studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today show a significant bump in protection against the highly transmissible Omicron COVID-19 variant after a booster dose, resulting in fewer hospitalizations, emergency visits, deaths, and cases in people who had received three doses of mRNA vaccines.

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CDC director on face-covering guidance: ‘Any mask is better than no mask’

WASHINGTON - Officials across the U.S. are again weighing how and whether to impose mask mandates as COVID-19 infections soar and the American public grows weary of pandemic-related restrictions.The U.S.

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With Omicron rising in US, feds unveil plan to keep kids in school

As the nation braces for a torrent of COVID-19 infections caused by the new Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant, the White House today unveiled a new strategy to keep unvaccinated children in school rather than quarantining at home after a COVID-19 exposure.

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Omicron variant now makes up about 3% of US COVID-19 cases, CDC says

ATLANTA - U.S. public health officials estimated this week that the new omicron variant of the coronavirus now makes up almost 3% of COVID-19 cases reported nationwide.The U.S.

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CDC director says ‘no evidence’ Omicron COVID-19 variant in U.S.

CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday that they were “actively” looking for the Omicron COVID-19 variant, but there was “no evidence” the variant of concern had been detected in the U.S.

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Fauci worried about uptick in COVID-19 hospitalization among fully vaccinated

WASHINGTON - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, echoed the importance of COVID-19 vaccine boosters following reports of an uptick in hospitalizations among people who have been inoculated. Speaking in an interview with NBC News, Fauci expressed concern over the number of fully vaccinated individuals who have not received a booster shot and have been hospitalized. "What we’re starting to see now is an uptick in hospitalizations among people who’ve been vaccinated but not boosted," Fauci said Tuesday.

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9K children in New Jersey received first dose of COVID vaccine so far, Murphy says

NEW JERSEY - The mask requirement for K-12 students and staff will remain in place for now as Gov. Phil Murphy encourages parents to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19. Kid-sized doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine cleared two final hurdles last week — a recommendation from CDC advisers, followed by a green light from Dr.

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COVID-19: CDC not changing meaning of fully-vaccinated amid booster authorization

When asked if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is looking to re-evaluate the definition of what fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 means amid booster shot authorization, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told media on Wednesday that nothing would be changed at this time.

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Feds tout COVID-19 pediatric vaccines as way back to normal

Today during a White House press briefing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, said now that she has authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, American schoolchildren have the chance to experience school "as we once one knew it, and as it should be."

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Philadelphia begins vaccinating kids ages 5-11

(Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) (Photo by LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA - Kids ages 5 to 11 in Philadelphia can now receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has instructed all COVID-19 vaccine providers to begin administering the free vaccine as they receive it.Kid-sized doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine cleared two final hurdles Tuesday — a recommendation from CDC advisers, followed by a green light from Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."I have been waiting for this day for months and months; we can finally vaccinate our children!" said Acting Health Commissioner Dr.

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CDC advisers back Covid-19 vaccine for 5 - 11 year olds

Advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have unanimously supported broad use of Pfizer's and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11, with shots potentially being administrated as soon as today.

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U.S. approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids 5-11, rollout could start Wednesday

COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11 Tuesday, allowing physicians across the United States to begin administering the shot to school-aged children.The approval comes after an advisory committee to the CDC recommended on Tuesday that Pfizer’s shots be given to this age group.The advisers said the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks of the vaccine.

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CDC advisors give go-ahead to COVID-19 vaccines for young kids

"Today's a monumental day in the course of the pandemic."

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CDC to vote on Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 5-11

COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 5 to 11 as soon as Wednesday after a panel of outside experts votes on Tuesday on how broadly the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should recommend its use in the age group.The U.S.

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Millions of Americans now eligible for COVID-19 boosters

This week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) signed off on booster doses of all three COVID-19 vaccines currently in use in the United States. As of today, White House officials said 70 million Americans are eligible for a booster, and more than 120 million Americans will be eligible in the coming weeks, or 2 out of 3 vaccinated people in the United States.

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U.S. CDC approves Moderna, J&J COVID-19 vaccine boosters, along with mixing of shots

COVID-19 booster and choose a different company’s vaccine for that next shot, federal health officials said Thursday.Certain people who received Pfizer vaccinations months ago already are eligible for a booster and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says specific Moderna and Johnson & Johnson recipients qualify, too. And in a bigger change, the agency is allowing the flexibility of “mixing and matching” that extra dose regardless of which type people received first.The Food and Drug Administration had already authorized such an expansion of the nation’s booster campaign on Wednesday, and it was also endorsed Thursday by a CDC advisory panel.

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CDC to continue recommending masks in all schools, Walensky says

ATLANTA - School-age children could be mere weeks away from being eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine — but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said their eligibility doesn’t mean the immediate end of wearing masks in schools.Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, said officials will "continue to recommend masks in all schools for all people in those schools." The reason: time. When the U.S.

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AY4.2 variant: CDC says new delta sublineage of COVID-19 seen in US

ATLANTA - As COVID-19 cases continue to trend downward in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a new sublineage of the delta variant on its radar.According to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, the AY4.2 sublineage recently identified in the United Kingdom has also been observed in the United States."There are new variants that continue to emerge as cases continue to spread," Walensky said in Wednesday’s COVID-19 briefing.

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CDC: Unvaccinated 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19

LOS ANGELES - Recent data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that unvaccinated people are more than 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19.In August, the CDC found that people who were not vaccinated against COVID-19 were at more than six times greater risk of contracting COVID-19 and 11.3 times greater risk of dying from the disease. That’s according to the health agency’s "Rates of COVID-19 Cases or Deaths by Vaccination Status," which tracked over 600,000 COVID-19 cases from April through late August this year, as the highly contagious delta variant swept the nation."Vaccination works," Dr.

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CDC issues 2021 holiday COVID-19 guidance urging vaccination ahead of gatherings

WASHINGTON - The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released official public health guidance for its 2021 holiday season urging people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus while continuing to wear masks indoors and in public spaces. The guidance stresses that people should get vaccinated ahead of the holidays if they haven't done so already. For young children who aren't yet eligible for the vaccine, the CDC suggests reducing risk of exposure by making sure the people around them are vaccinated.Dr.

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CDC urges COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy

Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an official health advisory, encouraging COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant and lactating Americans, as well as those considering pregnancy.

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CDC official is hopeful trick-or-treating this Halloween will be safe for children amid pandemic

Appearing on CBS’ program “Face the Nation,” Centers for Disease Control (CDC) director Dr. Rochelle Walensky spoke about Halloween safety this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CDC director acknowledges ‘confusion’ over COVID-19 boosters

WASHINGTON - The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says she recognizes there’s some confusion now in the United States about who should get a COVID-19 vaccine booster.For starters, the just-approved booster is intended for people originally vaccinated with shots made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech.Last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky sided with most of the recommendations from CDC advisers on giving boosters six months after the last Pfizer dose for certain groups of people.RELATED: FDA approves Pfizer booster for 65 and older, others at high riskThat includes people 65 and older, nursing home residents and people ages 50 to 64 with chronic health problems such as diabetes.

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Philadelphia Department of Public Health to begin administering Pfizer booster shots Saturday

(Photo by Alex Gottschalk/DeFodi Images via Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Department of Public Health will begin administering Pfizer booster shots to those eligible Saturday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed booster shots for millions of older or otherwise vulnerable Americans, opening a major new phase in the U.S vaccination drive against COVID-19.CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on a series of recommendations from a panel of advisers late Thursday.The advisers said boosters should be offered to people 65 and older, nursing home residents and those ages 50 to 64 who have risky underlying health problems.

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CDC director says withholding access to 3rd COVID-19 shot for people in high-risk settings would ‘worsen inequalities’

During a COVID-19 briefing on Friday, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said that withholding access to a COVID-19 booster shot for those living and working in high-risk settings, such as front line and essential workers, would worsen inequities she had “committed to fight.”

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CDC endorses COVID booster for millions of older and vulnerable Americans

endorsed booster shots for millions of older or otherwise vulnerable Americans, opening a major new phase in the U.S vaccination drive against COVID-19. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on a series of recommendations from a panel of advisers late Thursday.

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CDC panel OKs Pfizer booster for 65 and older, others at high risk

WASHINGTON - An advisory panel for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention granted its final approval on Thursday for offering booster doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to Americans ages 65 and up and others at high risk for severe disease, clearing the way for the extra shots to begin. The advisory panel to the CDC recommended the extra doses for people 65 and older, nursing home residents, and people who are 50 to 64 with underlying medical conditions.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0