Category: CDC

CDC Raises Alert on China, Urges Americans to Reconsider Travel

U.S. health officials are telling Americans to “reconsider travel” to Chinese territory due to the soaring infections in the country. In a travel alert released on Dec. 28, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) flagged China’s mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao as regions where U.S. travelers need to “practice enhanced precaution.” Since the…


CDC Issues Warning About Increase in Invasive Strep Infections in Children

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week issued a health advisory warning doctors and health authorities about a recent increase in invasive group A streptococcus bacterial infections among children. In a warning about a rise of invasive group A streptococcal—or iGAS—infections, the CDC issued a “Health Alert Network Health Advisory” to…


NTD Good Morning (Dec. 28): CDC Purges Vaccine Data?; SCOTUS Keeps Title 42 for Now; TikTok Banned From U.S. House Rep. Devices

Were thousand of myocarditis records removed from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System? That’s what some were alleging on Twitter on Dec. 27. Title 42 will be kept in place, at least for now. The supreme court ruled that it will remain as legal disputes play out. The policy was aimed at stopping the spread…


PREMIERING NOW: Finally, we can drop the term “African American” thanks to Stanford’s “harmful language” list | The Larry Elder Show | EP. 100

Stanford University has published an index of “harmful language” that it wants to eliminate from its websites and computer code, because the terms are ‘ableist, ageist or racist’. For example, the word “American” should be replaced with “U.S. citizen”, as American “often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US…


Finally, we can drop the term “African American” thanks to Stanford’s “harmful language” list | The Larry Elder Show | EP. 100

Stanford University has published an index of “harmful language” that it wants to eliminate from its websites and computer code, because the terms are ‘ableist, ageist or racist’. For example, the word “American” should be replaced with “U.S. citizen”, as American “often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US…


CDC Funding Decisions Based Largely on Politics, Not Science

Commentary For the second year in a row, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been caught ignoring science and letting liberal interest groups set its policies. In 2021, the American Pediatric Academy and the Children’s Hospital Association tracked COVID-19 statistics in children and the data show no relationship between mask mandates and the rate…


Biden Admin Asks Supreme Court to Delay End of Title 42 Border Policy Until After Christmas

The Biden administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow the pandemic-era Title 42 border policy to briefly remain in place for operational reasons until after Christmas. This comes after the Supreme Court agreed on Monday to the emergency request of 19 Republican-led states to reverse the lower court’s decision to end Title 42,…


2 Children Die After Invasive Group A Strep Infection, CDC Flags ‘Possible Increase’ in US Cases

Two children recently died in Colorado after they were reported to have invasive group A strep (Streptococcus), a bacterial infection, following a recent announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) flagging a “possible increase” in such infections among children in the United States. “CDC is looking into a possible increase in invasive group A strep (iGAS)…


About 50 Percent of Americans Say They Don’t Need New COVID Booster: Kaiser Poll

About half of the U.S. adult population say they don’t need the latest COVID-19 booster while just under a quarter have already taken the jab, according to a recent poll. The findings come despite a Biden administration push to vaccinate during the holiday season. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) COVID-19 Monitor poll, only…


About 50 Percent of Americans Say They Don’t Need New COVID-19 Booster: Kaiser Poll

About half of the U.S. adult population say they don’t need the latest COVID-19 booster while just under a quarter have already taken the jab, according to a recent poll. The findings come despite a Biden administration push to vaccinate during the holiday season. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) COVID-19 Monitor poll, only…