Enlarge / Dr. Rochelle Walensky, President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Centers for Disease Control. (credit: Getty | Chip Somodevilla) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to release guidance this week—possibly as early as Thursday—on activities that are considered safe for people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. But, while […]
Enlarge / President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff participate in a moment of silence and candle light ceremony at sundown with 500 candles for the 500,000 dead from the COVID-19 pandemic, at the South Portico at the White House on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 in […]
Enlarge / Rochelle Walensky during the announcement of her nomination to head the CDC. (credit: Jim Watson, Getty Images) As the US approached the start of the school year in 2020, the guidance it received from the federal government was a mess. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a series of documents in late […]
Enlarge / Self-sewn protective face masks in a fabric store on April 3, 2020, in Jena, Germany. (credit: Getty | Jens Schlueter) With the pandemic still raging and several dangerous variants looming, many experts have suggested doubling up on masks. Now, a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doubles down on […]
Enlarge / A registered nurse practitioner holds up a sign and a flag asking for another patient to dose with the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine as well as a more vaccine doses at a vaccination site in Seattle, Washington on January 24, 2021. (credit: Getty | Grant Hendsley) With the country’s vaccine rollout in utter disorder, […]
Enlarge / Dr. Rochelle Walensky, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to head the Centers for Disease Control. (credit: Getty | Chip Somodevilla) Midday today, January 20, Dr. Rochelle Walensky will take over as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—and one of her top priorities will be to try to undo all the harms […]
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released new guidance on Saturday on the COVID-19 vaccination process for people with underlying health conditions. The new guidelines follow reports of some health care workers and COVID vaccine recipients experiencing side effects. In releasing this information, the CDC seeks to assuage the concerns of people with underlying medical […]
On Nov. 18, almost a year into a pandemic which has killed over 300,000 Americans, a contemporary miracle happened: Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its spouse BioNTech declared the vaccine candidate was demonstrated in clinical trials to get a 95% efficiency rate without severe side effects. The rollout, that they stated, would start in just a month of […]
Americans are predicted to continue their travel plans to get your Christmas vacation with over just several million air passengers daily expected for many days during the vacation season, David Pekoske, manager of the Transportation Security Administration, stated through an aviation incident Tuesday. Americans wish to travel Center for Disease Control information to keep in […]
Expand / Vials using COVID-19 Vaccine labels revealing logos of pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and German biotechnology firm de BioNTech. (charge: Getty | Photonews) The exact initial doses of any accepted COVID-19 vaccine must visit both front-line health care employees and inhabitants of long-term maintenance centers, a committee of specialist advisers for the Centers for Disease […]