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Live Q&A: Fauci Warns COVID Policies Aren’t Over; CDC Says Ending Pandemic Would Cost Powers

March 20, 2022
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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is warning about a new variant of COVID-19, the BA.2 variant, and suggested that lockdowns may again be back on the table. Fauci told CNN that the United States may need to “pivot and go back to any degree of mitigation that is…

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CDC Needs to Reclaim Its Reputation as Nation’s Public Health Agency and Be Apolitical: Medical News Editors

February 10, 2022
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The editors of an online medical news organization called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to “reclaim their independence” and their credibility as the nation’s leading public health agency by leaving the White House COVID Response Team in Washington. “CDC and its director, Rochelle Walensky, MD, need to reclaim their independence and…

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CDC Director Avoids Naming Specific Benchmarks for Changing Mask Guidance

February 9, 2022
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Public health officials are still not offering specific benchmarks that would trigger the easing of recommendations related to COVID-19. At a White House COVID update on Feb. 9, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said there will “come a time when we move from a phase of crisis to a point…

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Feed Stores: Livestock Ivermectin Flying off Shelves for Unapproved Human Use

January 29, 2022
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Feed stores around the country are discouraging shoppers from buying ivermectin formulated for livestock, for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. But despite their strictly worded warnings, they’re finding it’s difficult to keep the products made for horses, cows, sheep, and other animals in stock, workers at retailers specializing in animal products told…

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Safety Data for Simultaneously Administering COVID-19 Vaccines With Other Vaccines for Children Unavailable

January 27, 2022
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Parents are being told that it is safe for their child to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and other childhood vaccines concomitantly, yet no such safety data on the simultaneous administration of COVID-19 vaccines and other vaccines are available for them to read. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that “COVID-19 vaccines may…

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Live Q&A: Fauci Suggests Negative COVID-19 Tests to Leave Quarantine, CDC Says That May Take 12 Weeks

January 2, 2022
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Anthony Fauci, the White House pandemic advisor, told ABC News on Sunday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now evaluating a recent rule revision that allows people who tested positive to leave if they haven’t received a negative COVID-19 test. This comes after the CDC shortened isolation time from 10 days…

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Live Q&A: CDC May Limit J&J Vaccine Over Complications; Hospitals Get Incentives on COVID-19 Treatments

December 16, 2021
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is considering whether it should stop the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine over cases of it causing blood clots, which have been seen more in young and middle-aged women. The Washington Post reports that “the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will be presented with…

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CDC Study: MRNA Vaccine Protection Against COVID-19 Is Waning

December 9, 2021
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study of hospitalized veterans showed their antibody response dropped four months after receiving either of the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Published Thursday, the CDC-backed study found that both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were effective at preventing hospitalization for veterans four months after they got their second dose,…

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NIH Director Says Omicron Unlikely the Last Variant of COVID-19

December 6, 2021
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The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says that Omicron is likely not the last variant that will emerge from the original coronavirus. “It’s certainly possible that this is not the last emerging variant that will attract a lot of attention and a lot of concern,” Dr. Francis Collins said in an interview…

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Eighty House Republicans Vote With Democrats to Pass Bill Funding Federal Vaccine Database

December 2, 2021
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Eighty House Republicans voted with the Democrats to Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and made into law, would fund a federal vaccination database. The bill, also known as H.R. 550, will grant the federal government the authority to appropriate $400 million in taxpayer dollars to fund “immunization…

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