The first U.S. coronavirus test kit failed up to 33 percent of the time in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) final quality control tests in February, according to documents obtained by NPR. And the CDC sent the test kits out any way. What followed was widespread outcry over a short supply of … Read more
People who have COVID-19 or are in quarantine after a potential exposure still have the right to vote – and should use it today if they haven’t already, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. Health officials posted new guidance on Sunday, clarifying the voting right, but asking anyone with COVID-19 or a … Read more
Coronavirus cases in Arizona declined by as much as 75 percent during the later summer months after a mask mandate was implemented, a new report finds. From late June to early July state health officials were reporting more than 3,500 daily cases of COVID-19. However, after Gov Doug Ducey (R) ordered that all residents needed … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now admits that coronavirus does spread through airborne transmission, according to updated guidance on the agency’s website. It comes two weeks after CDC officials said their previous warning about airborne transmission was ‘in error,’ making Monday’s update the third time in a month the agency has flip-flopped … Read more
Pre-teen and teenage children are about twice as likely as younger kids to catch coronavirus and spread it at school, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveals. Since the COVID-19 pandemic really kicked off in the US in March, 277,285 children have caught the virus. Older and Latinx children were each about twice … Read more
Halloween is canceled: CDC advises Americans to not go trick-or-treating or to costume parties but says staying home to carve pumpkins is safe in new coronavirus guidance The CDC has issued its first guidance for how to celebrate Halloween during the coronavirus pandemic Recommendations discourage going traditional trick-or-treating, attending costume parties or visiting an indoor haunted … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it mistakenly published guidance suggesting that the novel coronavirus spreads through the air. ”A draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency’s official website,’ the agency in a statement, according to CNBC. ‘CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding … Read more
Twelve US states now have obesity rates of at least 35 percent – more than ever before, a new map reveals. More than one-third of adults in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia were dangerously overweight in 2019, according to the data released on Thursday by … Read more
President Donald Trump contradicted his Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head saying he was ‘confused’ and ‘mistaken’ when he told Congress a coronavirus vaccine wouldn’t be widely available until the second quarter of next year. Trump also said Dr. Robert Redfield must have ‘misunderstood’ a question when he told a Senate committee, ‘I might even … Read more
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr Robert Redfield claimed that masks offer more certain protection against coronavirus than vaccines will – at least in the immediate future. ‘I might say this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when I take a vaccine’ said Dr Redfield … Read more