The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has suggested for the first time that people who recover from coronavirus might have some immunity to the virus. But the agency’s updated guidance hints that that protection may not last longer than three months. ‘People who have tested positive for COVID-19 do not need to quarantine … Read more
Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed there has been 200,700 excess deaths during the pandemic – surpassing the confirmed 161,000 COVID-19 death toll. In August, the United States continued to amass the largest COVID-19 death toll across the world and the number topped 161,000 this week. But according to a … Read more
On top of COVID-19 and the seasonal flu, Americans should expect another outbreak of the rare but paralyzing disease acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned Tuesday. AFM is a mysterious disease that experts believe can be triggered by several enteroviruses – but primarily EV-D68 – which commonly cause … Read more
Donald Trump banned travel from Europe too late, allowing ‘large seeding’ of coronavirus in the US, CDC director admits CDC director Dr Robert Redfield said coronavirus from Europe was already spreading in the US by the time travel from the EU was shut down In an ABC News interview, he called travel from Europe the … Read more
The CDC has now confirmed that coronavirus was already spreading throughout New York City from Europe by the time Donald Trump banned travelers from the EU and UK entering the US in March. A new report from the health agency released Friday provides more evidence that the first cases of the deadly virus in NYC … Read more
The CDC has now confirmed that coronavirus was already spreading throughout New York City from Europe by the time Donald Trump banned travelers from the EU and UK entering the US in March. A new report from the health agency released Friday provides more evidence that the first cases of the deadly virus in NYC … Read more
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website that, up until yesterday, publicly displayed how many US hospital and ICU beds were occupied by coronavirus patients will now only show out-of-date information. It comes after the Trump Administration instructed hospitals to send their COVID-19 directly to a new Department of Health and Human Services … Read more
The Trump administration has ordered US hospitals to send all data directly to a central White House database, cutting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) out of the process collecting and sharing information on the pandemic. Officials say their aim is to streamline data gathering and analysis and fix lags that have plagued … Read more
REVEALED: 87% of meat and poultry plant workers who were infected with coronavirus were minorities, CDC report finds More than 16,000 meat and poultry processing facility workers have tested positive for coronavirus Of the nearly 10,000 workers for whom racial and ethnic information were reported, 87% were minorities Five times as many Hispanic employees were … Read more
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report suggests that one coronavirus test may not be enough to be sure that someone has not been infected after exposure. The report, published Monday, found that more than 70 percent of inmates at a Louisiana prison who were exposed to someone infected with coronavirus ultimately … Read more