For individuals 60 and older, RSV vaccination is advised by FDA specialists. Future plans

The second of two new vaccines intended for persons 60 and older to avoid serious illness was declared safe and effective for older adults on Wednesday by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel. The RSV vaccine is still being reviewed by the agency. The FDA commissioner must still provide ...

CDC Does Not Recommend Traveling to Brazil, Mexico, and Singapore

On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued travel advisories for several countries including, Brazil, Mexico, and Singapore due to the high number of Covid-19 infections there. The CDC raised these countries to its highest level of Covid-19 warning I.e., Level Four: Very Hig...

Hundreds of US citizens fall sick due to raw onion-linked Salmonella outbreak

A mass Salmonella outbreak has affected hundreds of people across 37 states. 652 people have been reported sick and 129 citizens have been hospitalized.

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• Salmonella outbreak has affected hundreds of people in the US
• 652 people have...

CDC SAYS US HAS ADMINISTERED OVER 331 MN DOSES OF COVID-19 VACCINE

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• The federal agency said these numbers have gone up from the 330,604,253 vaccine doses that were administered by July 4

• This number announced by the CDC includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech  and single dose of Johnson & John...

CDC SAYS US HAS ADMINISTERED OVER 318 MILLION DOSES OF COVID-19

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• The CDC said that a total of 177,342,954 people have been administered with at least one dose while 150,046,006 people are fully vaccinated as of Monday

According to a statement issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United S...

US CDC CLASSIFIES DELTA VARIANT OF COVID-19 AS A VARIANT OF CONCERN

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• Along with the Delta variant, other variants like the B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 (Beta), P.1 (Gamma), B.1.427 (Epsilon), and B.1.429 (Epsilon) have also been classified as 'variants of concern'

According to the reports, the United States Centers for Dis...

US CDC SAYS TWO DOSES OF PFIZER, MODERNA REDUCES RISK OF COVID-19 BY 91%

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• Talking about this study, CDC Director Rochelle P Walensky said "Covid-19 vaccines are a critical tool in overcoming this pandemic.”

• Currently the country has vaccinated nearly 16 crore people with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.<...

TAKE CARE OF CHILDREN AS THEY ARE VULNERABLE TO COVID WARN US EXPERT

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• This numbers related to children are likely to go downwards as the country has started vaccinating children 12 and above for the COVID-19

• The US President Joe Biden has set a target of vaccinating nearly 70 percent of US adults with at least one dose o...

50 PERCENT AMERICANS ARE NOW FULLY VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19: CDC

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• President Biden said his hope was for the U.S. to “celebrate our independence as a nation, and our independence of this virus,” by Independence Day

• As per the health agency’s vaccine tracker updated on Tuesday morning, 50% of the U.S....

COVID VACCINES STILL POSE AN EDGE OVER VARIANTS: TOP AMERICAN SCIENTISTS

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• The top American pandemic advisors are saying that vaccines administered in the US are effective against all the variants including the B1617 and the B117 variants

• Majority of the scientists and public health officials including those in the US are pre...

US REPORT ITS LOWEST NUMBER OF COVID-19 DEATHS

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• Walensky said the seven-day moving average of deaths was 545 on May 16, and the last time our seven-day-average was this low was in March 2020, essentially since the pandemic

• The CDC on Tuesday announced that the United States administered 275,535,207 ...

US ADMINISTERED 275.5 MILLION CASES OF COVID-19 VACCINE TILL TODAY

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• The health agency said these figures are up from the 274,411,901 vaccine doses that had gone into arms by May 17 out of 344,503,595 doses delivered

• The US President Joe Biden said the vaccine is safe, effective, easy, fast and free. He further said tha...

COVID-19: US SCHOOLS NEED TO CONTINUE USE OF FACE MASKS SAYS CDC

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• The CDC said all kindergarten through grade 12 schools "should implement and layer prevention strategies and should prioritize universal and correct use of masks and physical distancing."

• The CDC recently announced that fully vaccinated peopl...

COVID-19: US STARTS VACCINATING CHILDREN AGEING BETWEEN 12-15

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• Talking about this initiative, the US President Joe Biden said the vaccine is safe, effective, easy, fast and free, and this is one more giant step on our fight against the pandemic

• The United States took this decision to safeguard middle and high scho...

DESPITE CDC ANNOUNCEMENT, U.S. WILL NOT LIFT MASK RULES IN PUBLIC TRANSIT

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• According to TSA, transportation system operators have reported almost 2,000 passengers for refusing to wear a face mask since requirements became effective i.e. February 1

• This statement from TSA came after an announcement from the Centers for Disease...

US CDC SAYS NO NEED TO WEAR MASKS IF YOU ARE FULLY VACCINATED

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• President Biden said "I think it's a great milestone. A great day. It's been made possible by the extraordinary success we've had in vaccinating so many Americans so quickly.”

• The US President said fully vaccinated people are at ...

COVID CASES IN AMERICAN CHILDREN INCREASING EACH PASSING DAY

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• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), by early April, the number of children COVID-19 cases started going past those ageing 65 or above

• Researchers are concerned that the new variants of the novel virus are likely to infect...

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI SAYS U.S. HAS BEEN UNDERCOUNTING COVID-19 DEATHS

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• As per official records, the US has lost more than 581,000 people to the COVID-19, while over 32.6 million cases have been reported since the dreadful virus started wreaking havoc

• We have 58 percent of adult Americans with at least one shot, over 110 m...

US CDC ACKNOWLEDGES COVID-19 IS AIRBORNE

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• Recently a study by Lancet said there is consistent and strong evidence that COVID-19 spreads through air

• The CDC said "People release respiratory fluids during exhalation in the form of droplets across a spectrum of sizes. These droplets carry vi...

COVID-19 TOLL IN THE US LIKELY TO GO DOWN DRASTICALLY BY JULY END

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• The paper released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is based on projections made by six research group

• Considering all the scenarios, the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are more likely to fall drastically by the ...