Category: Health Education

CDC Denies Existence of Rumored ‘USA Variant’ of COVID-19

A federal health agency on Friday rejected the notion that a new variant of COVID-19 that originated in the United States exists. “Researchers have been monitoring U.S. strains since the pandemic began, including 5,700 samples collected in November and December,” a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman told news outlets. “To date, neither researchers…


CDC Says It Hasn’t Seen ‘USA Variant’ of COVID-19

A federal health agency has rejected the notion that a new variant of COVID-19 that originated in the United States exists. “Researchers have been monitoring U.S. strains since the pandemic began, including 5,700 samples collected in November and December,” a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman told news outlets on Jan. 8. “To date,…


Arizona Reports Nearly 300 Deaths, 10,000 Cases

Arizona reported nearly 300 coronavirus deaths, a pandemic high, and nearly 10,000 new infections on Thursday. Health officials have urged Gov. Doug Ducey to install new measures as cases skyrocket. Arizona has the highest coronavirus diagnosis rate in the country, with one out of every 119 people testing positive in the past week. Ducey has…


Dr. Fauci Sees Greater China Role in COVID-19 Spread, One Year In

The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that a lack of openness by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials regarding the novel coronavirus’ transmission and their blocking of top U.S. scientists from going to Wuhan to investigate the virus contributed to the rapid spread of the CCP virus. “Back…


Dr. Fauci Says China Played Role in COVID-19 Spread

The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that a lack of openness by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials regarding the novel coronavirus’ transmission and their blocking of top U.S. scientists from going to Wuhan to investigate the virus contributed to the rapid spread of the CCP virus. “Back…


LA County Orders Ambulance Crews Not to Transport Patients With ‘Little Chance of Survival’

Los Angeles ambulance crew members have been instructed not to transport patients with “little chance of survival” to local hospitals as ICUs near capacity.


Newsom Says Just One Percent of Californians Vaccinated: ‘It’s Gone Too Slowly’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that only about one percent of California’s 40 million residents have received a COVID-19 vaccine, an immunization rate that he decried as “not good enough.” Newsom made the remarks at a briefing on Monday, during which he said the number of new COVID-19 infections on Sunday was nearly 30,000,…


Georgia Runoffs May Impact $2,000 Stimulus Checks: Top Democrat

Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), U.S. House Ways and Means Committee chairman, said Sunday that the results of the runoff election in Georgia would influence the $2,000 stimulus checks that President Donald Trump and other officials have proposed. “I think it’s more contingent upon what happens on Jan. 5,” Neal told reporters when talking about the…


Some Moderna Vaccine Doses May Be Cut in Half to Accelerate Rollout: Official

A top official heading the Trump administration’s federal vaccine program said Sunday that the government is considering giving people a half-dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in order to get more people inoculated faster. Dr. Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, the federal program to surge vaccine development and distribution, told CBS’ “Face the Nation”…


High Share of Health Care Workers Reluctant to Get COVID-19 Vaccine: Reports

Reports and studies have emerged showing a relatively high share of those working in health care settings are reluctant or refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. A research project tracking the public’s attitudes and experiences with COVID-19 vaccinations has found that nearly one-third of health care workers were “vaccine hesitant,” saying they probably or definitely…