A new internal review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that guidance issued during the Trump administration downplayed the seventy of the pandemic. First reported by The Washington Post, a memo found the guidance was not ‘primarily authored’ by CDC staff and not based on the most accurate scientific evidence. Specifically, … Read more
CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky (pictured) pleaded with Americans to not travel over Spring Break during a press briefing on Monday The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging Americans to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19 until more people are vaccinated. At a press briefing on Monday, CDC Director Dr Rochelle … Read more
While the coronavirus pandemic rose to new heights in the U.S., the ‘silent epidemic’ of opioid overdose deaths worsened amid lockdowns, new research suggests. Opioid deaths increased by nearly a quarter in Cook County, Illinois – the county where Chicago is located – during an 11-week stay-at-home order from late March to May, 2020, researchers … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently urging caution in states that are opening up because the majority of the population is unvaccinated. As of Wednesday morning, 61 million people in the U.S. – or 18.4 percent of the population – have received an initial dose and 32.1 million – 9.7 percent – … Read more
Americans who are overweight or obese make up more than 73 percent of those who die of the virus, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveal. People who were obese made up nearly half of all fatalities among hospitalized coronavirus patients logged in the new report. Those figures align with the overall … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Americans who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can gather without masks or social distancing, new CDC guidelines say The CDC released new guidelines for Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on Monday People who have received two shots of Moderna or Pfizer or one shot of J&J can meet with other vaccinated people indoors … Read more
New federal recommendations suggest states include people with disabilities or cognitive decline and their caretakers on their lists of who is eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. On Tuesday evening, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly updated its guidance on who should be getting the shots. CDC officials continued to stress that all … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted it did not perform contact tracing on flights that some of the earliest patients with the UK and Brazil coronavirus variants were on. In one weekly report, the federal health agency discussed a patient who traveled to the UK and came back infected with the … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to release new guidelines this week for Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. Senior administration officials told POLITICO that the recommendations will include what safe activities people who have received both doses of the vaccine can do. The relaxed restrictions will include a list of of potential … Read more
Life expectancy in the United States fell by a full year during the first half of 2020, a new report finds. In 2019, life expectancy – or the average number of years a person lives – for the general American population was 78.8 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed on Thursday. However, … Read more