With avian flu and a new coronavirus variant spreading as summer begins, how can we keep healthy and still have fun?
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What should people know about the new coronavirus variant? A doctor explains.
There is a new coronavirus variant in town. KP.2, a member of the so-called FliRT variants, nicknamed after their mutations, has become the…
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U.S. math scores have declined since COVID-19 and states strategize to improve proficiency
Study.com reports on the decline of math scores among U.S. students since COVID-19 and what educators are doing about…
Continue Reading New virus variants threaten a summer Covid-19 wave, but experts say the risk remains uncertain
Covid-19 levels are about the lowest they’ve ever been in the United States, but another new crop of virus variants once again threatens to disrupt…
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As Covid-19 emergency funding dries up, some rural schools may face a steep fiscal cliff in 2024
The Daily Yonder reports on how rural school districts are likely to face budget reductions in the…
Continue Reading AstraZeneca withdraws Covid-19 vaccine citing low demand
AstraZeneca is withdrawing its highly successful coronavirus vaccine, citing the availability of a plethora of new shots that has led to a decline in…
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From grocery cards to car repairs: How COVID-19 aid changed the way schools can help families experiencing homelessness
Chalkbeat discusses how pandemic relief from the federal government gave schools a means to provide families direct…
Continue Reading This Chinese virologist shared crucial Covid-19 data. Then his research hit hurdles
In the early days of 2020, as science looked for answers to a mysterious viral outbreak in central China, a prominent Chinese virologist stepped…
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Districts where student-teacher ratios are still behind pre-pandemic levels
TeacherCertification.com used data from the National Center for Education Statistics to show how student-teacher ratios have…
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Using COVID relief funds, Arizona canceled massive medical debt for one million residents
Next City investigates how medical debt will be canceled for up to 1 million Arizona residents under the American Rescue Plan…
Continue Reading After four years with COVID-19, the US is settling into a new approach to respiratory virus season
With the arrival of spring, the United States is easing out of respiratory virus season, a familiar pattern that has been challenged by Covid-19 for…
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Woman uses social media to spread awareness of long COVID-19
This week marks the four year anniversary of when COVID-19 was officially declared a…
Continue Reading How COVID-19 has changed the medical world 4 years later – Local News 8 investigates
March 11 marks the infamous anniversary of when the outbreak of COVID-19 became a worldwide pandemic, according to the World Health…
Continue Reading A man deliberately got 217 Covid shots. Here’s what happened
One German man has redefined “man on a…
Continue Reading Free home Covid-19 test program to be suspended this week
The US government’s free at-home Covid-19 test program will be suspended Friday, according to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and…
Continue Reading The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines
For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B…
Continue Reading This photographer documented life as a young person during the pandemic
New Year’s Eve 2020 was peculiar for many of…
Continue Reading CDC drops 5-day isolation guidance for Covid-19, moving away from key strategy to quell infections
By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — People who test positive for Covid-19 no longer need to routinely stay away from others for at least five days,…
Continue Reading Excessive alcohol drinking drove about 488 deaths per day during the pandemic, CDC says
While dry January and damp lifestyles have taken off on TikTok, the United States has already experienced a spike in deaths related to excessive…
Continue Reading CDC recommends seniors get another Covid-19 shot
By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — People age 65 and older should get an additional dose of the current Covid-19 vaccine, the US Centers for…
Continue Reading Three-time Olympic champion Gabby Douglas ‘crushed’ after gymnastics return halted by positive Covid-19 test
Three-time Olympic champion Gabby Douglas’ return to competitive gymnastics – originally set for this weekend – will have to wait, after the…
Continue Reading CDC isolation guidelines for Covid-19 haven’t changed yet. Here’s what you need to know
California and Oregon recently became the first states to break with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how long a person…
Continue Reading Washington Post: CDC to ease Covid-19 isolation guidance
By Jamie Gumbrecht and Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to shift its Covid-19…
Continue Reading Latest COVID-19 vaccine offers strong protection against symptomatic infection, including from JN.1, early CDC data shows
A shot of the latest COVID-19 vaccine can help cut the chances of getting a symptomatic infection by half, early data from the US Centers for Disease…
Continue Reading Some states are loosening their Covid isolation guidelines, shifting away from CDC recommendations
People who test positive for Covid-19 in California and Oregon are no longer expected to isolate for a set period of time — and those without…
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Seasonal virus activity on the rise across the country
It’s been nearly a month since the winter holidays, and seasonal virus activity continues to rise across the United States, according to data from…
Continue Reading Genetic sequence of coronavirus was submitted to US database two weeks before China’s official disclosure, documents show
The genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, was submitted to a National Institutes of Health database two weeks before its…
Continue Reading Flu activity ticked down last week, but respiratory virus season is far from over in the US
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The United States started the new year awash in respiratory illness, with high levels of flu, Covid-19 and…
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What kinds of schools fared the best and worst during the pandemic?
HeyTutor looked at a 2023 NWEA report to determine how the pandemic affected test score outcomes for students by comparing 2019 and 2022 test…
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Parents don't grasp the full academic damage from COVID's disruption, according to study
The 74 takes a closer look at a USC paper that claims that grade inflation and pandemic leniency are shielding the true extent to which children have…
Continue Reading After winter holidays, respiratory virus activity continues to build across the US
The first look at trends following most of the winter holidays shows that seasonal virus activity remains elevated and continues to rise across the…
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More hospitals are requiring masks as flu and COVID-19 cases surge
More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face a post-holiday spike in flu and other…
Continue Reading XBB.1.5, BA.2.86, JN.1: How to understand the Covid-19 alphabet soup
CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The virus that causes Covid-19 has more letters to describe its many derivatives than a bowl of alphabet…
Continue Reading New Covid subvariant, flu and RSV cases are rising. A doctor explains how to stay healthy this holiday
The coronavirus subvariant JN.1 is now the fastest growing strain of the virus in the United States. The strain now constitutes about 20% of new…
Continue Reading Covid-19 vaccine mandate cases for executive branch employees and troops thrown out by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out several cases challenging the federal government’s now-defunct Covid-19 vaccine mandates for executive branch…
Continue Reading ‘A vicious cycle:’ Low Covid-19 vaccination rates lead to fewer doses at pediatric offices. Now, some parents can’t find it
Last year, days after the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines were authorized for emergency use in children as young as 6 months, Laura…
Continue Reading You can get Covid-19 and flu vaccines at the same time, but should you? What the science says
With holiday season underway, you may be realizing that you forgot to get your Covid-19 and flu vaccines, and now you’ll be sitting across the…
Continue Reading Even more free home Covid-19 tests are available for order from the US government
US households are now eligible to order an additional four at-home Covid-19 tests — free of cost — through the…
Continue Reading About three-quarters of Americans do not fear getting COVID-19 this holiday season, KFF survey finds
Most adults in the United States are not worried about getting sick with Covid-19 or spreading it over the holidays, a new survey from KFF…
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COVID-19 relief fraudster convicted of bank fraud
A federal jury in Boise convicted a Georgia woman Thursday for fraudulently obtaining and misusing a $338,958 Paycheck Protection Program loan that…
Continue Reading Life expectancy gap between men and women in the US widened significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic
Women in the United States can expect to live nearly six years longer than men, as disparities in deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drive the…
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Long Covid is hard — here are five tips to help
Brain fog, fatigue, heart palpitations, post-exertional malaise and dizziness are a handful of the symptoms associated people with long Covid in…
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Dr. Tom Frieden: Covid-19 is still around, and so are these misconceptions
Covid-19 hasn’t gone away, and it won’t any time soon. It’s now part of the landscape of health threats. Although the coronavirus continues to…
Continue Reading Covid shots may slightly increase risk of stroke in older adults, particularly when administered with certain flu vaccines
Vaccines for Covid-19 and influenza may slightly increase the risk of strokes caused by blood clots in the brains of seniors, particularly when the…
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How the pandemic impacted what public schools in every state spend
HeyTutor analyzed NCES data to see how the pandemic affected public school spending, tracking expenditures by state between the 2019-20 and 2021-22…
Continue Reading Pfizer more than doubles price of lifesaving Covid-19 medication Paxlovid as US transitions out of pandemic phase
The price of the lifesaving Covid-19 antiviral medication Paxlovid will more than double as the United States transitions out of the emergency phase…
Continue Reading With virus season looming and awareness campaign funding slashed, experts see a scattered Covid-19 vaccine rollout ahead
By Brenda Goodman and Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — As of Thursday, only about 3% of the US population — about 10 million Americans — have…
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Drive-thru flu and COVID-19 clinic Thursday
This clinic is open to anyone in need of…
Continue Reading Price of lifesaving Covid-19 antiviral Paxlovid expected to rise next year, raising concerns about access
The price of the lifesaving Covid-19 medication Paxlovid is likely to rise next year for most patients as the United States continues to transition…
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Despite rocky rollout, more than 7 million Americans have received updated COVID-19 vaccines, HHS says
This year’s uptake of the updated COVID-19 vaccine appears to be somewhat slower than last year’s, according to data from the US Department of…
Continue Reading Older adults still make up most COVID-19 hospitalizations, CDC report says, but concern grows over lack of vaccination
Older adults have accounted for nearly two-thirds of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States this year, posing “a continued public health…
Continue Reading There is more to worry about than long COVID, study shows. You could get a long cold, too
Feeling run-down even after you kicked an infection? It could be a case of a “long cold,” according to a new…
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Americans' pandemic-era entrepreneurial streak is holding strong—for now
An altLINE analysis of Census Bureau data reveals Americans are still starting new businesses at higher rates than in pre-pandemic…
Continue Reading 3 free drive thru flu and COVID-19 clinics in October
This clinic is open to anyone in need of…
Continue Reading Moderna’s flu-COVID combo vaccine elicits ‘strong’ immune response in Phase 1/2 study, company says
In a Phase 1/2 clinical trial, Moderna’s combination vaccine appeared to elicit “strong” immune responses against both influenza and COVID-19…
Continue Reading CDC is no longer distributing COVID-19 vaccination cards, once a staple of the pandemic
Do you know where your COVID-19 vaccine card is? If not, you may want to track it down, because getting a new one could be…
Continue Reading FDA signs off on updated protein-based Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax
The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized Novavax’s updated protein-based Covid-19 vaccine for people 12 and…
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Cold and flu season is here, how can you stay healthy?
Fall has arrived, and as people bring out their sweaters, pumpkin spice, and scarves medical experts in the area remind us to be prepared for Cold…
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District of Idaho’s COVID-19 Fraud Task Force cases have identified $7 million in fraud
In the past 12 months, the Task Force has built a team consisting of federal prosecutors and 11 federal agencies focused on prosecuting cases related…
Continue Reading She’s a health policy expert. She still had trouble getting her Covid-19 vaccine
Like many people across the US who’ve gone to a pharmacy in the hopes of getting one of the newly updated Covid-19 vaccines, Cynthia Cox walked…
Continue Reading Is it a cold, flu or COVID-19? A doctor helps sort it out
Autumn is here, school is back in session, and along with the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, people are experiencing sniffles, coughs and other…
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Free COVID-19 tests are now available for order from the US government
COVID-19 tests are now available to be ordered for free from the US…
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Almost 7% of adults and 1% of kids have struggled with long COVID, survey finds
Estimates of the number of people in the US with lingering COVID-19 symptoms vary widely, but a new survey from the National Center for Health…
Continue Reading Only about 1 in 4 American adults definitely wants the updated COVID-19 vaccine, new survey finds
When it comes to the updated COVID-19 vaccines, only about 1 in 4 American adults says they definitely plan to get the shot, according to a new…
Continue Reading As COVID-19 hospitalizations climb, rates among seniors and children raise concern
COVID-19 hospitalizations have been on the rise in the United States for months, with weekly admissions now more than triple what they were two…
Continue Reading SIPH offers updated COVID-19 vaccine
Southeastern Idaho Public Health (SIPH) has the added the updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna in limited quantities to its…
Continue Reading US government to relaunch free COVID-19 home test program
The US government will relaunch a program to provide free COVID-19 home tests to Americans, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary…
Continue Reading Supply and insurance issues snarl fall Covid-19 vaccine campaign for some
By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — It has been just over a week since the US Food and Drug Administration and the US Centers for Disease Control…
Continue Reading COVID-19 vaccination rates lag behind flu’s, but getting shots together may help
Every year since 2010, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that everyone in the country ages 6 months and older receive…
Continue Reading Home tests still work to detect COVID-19, but here’s why your test may not pick up an infection
With COVID-19 cases up across the country, many people are once again relying on home tests to guide decisions about going to work and sending their…
Continue Reading Meet the Black students who were instrumental in developing the first Covid-19 shots
It was a meeting that changed their lives…
Continue Reading When to get the new COVID-19 vaccine to maximize your protection
A new COVID-19 vaccine is available — and recommended — for everyone ages 6 months and older, and experts say it’s best to take advantage of…
Continue Reading The latest COVID-19 vaccine is here. Here’s where and when to get it — and RSV and flu shots, too
Now that the US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have signed off, you won’t have to wait long to get…
Continue Reading CDC recommends updated Covid-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older
By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Everyone ages 6 months and older should get an updated Covid-19 vaccine, the US Centers for Disease Control and…
Continue Reading With COVID-19 cases on the rise, should students take extra precautions?
Summer has ended and kids are back in school. However, COVID-19 cases are on the rise, along with key metrics like hospital…
Continue Reading FDA signs off on updated COVID-19 vaccines that target circulating variants
The US Food and Drug Administration gave the green light Monday to updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech amid rising cases and…
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Schools got $190B to counter the pandemic's effect on student learning—Here's how they spent it
The COVID-19 relief funds to schools are coming to a close. HeyTutor cited data from the Department of Education to determine how much states…
Continue Reading Demand for at-home Covid-19 tests is high, but don’t expect a shortage anytime soon
The US is experiencing an increase of Covid-19, with weekly hospital admissions and test positivity rates on the rise, according to federal…
Continue Reading First lady Dr. Jill Biden tests negative for Covid-19
By Donald Judd, Arlette Saenz, Betsy Klein and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — First lady Dr. Jill Biden has tested negative for Covid-19,…
Continue Reading Covid apathy and fatigue are real. Here’s how to cope
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Covid-19 is here to stay. To prove it, the virus is surging in many places around the world — just as immunity…
Continue Reading What you should do if a household member tests positive for COVID-19, according to an expert
First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House has reported, just as coronavirus cases and…
Continue Reading First lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19
First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday and is experiencing “mild symptoms,” the White House said. President Joe Biden has…
Continue Reading US lab tests suggest new Covid-19 variant BA.2.86 may be less contagious and less immune-evasive than feared
By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Two teams of US scientists have completed lab experiments testing the antibodies from vaccinated and infected…
Continue Reading It seems like everyone has COVID-19. Here’s why this wave is probably worse than official data suggests
COVID-19 certainly didn’t take a vacation this summer. Virus levels in the US have been on the rise for weeks, but it’s hard to know exactly how…
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How to replace your COVID-19 vaccine card
Your COVID-19 vaccine card should be included as part of your medical record, similar to your personal vaccination record, experts…
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What Covid-19 precautions should you be taking now? A doctor explains
By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — As families prepare to gather for Labor Day and children head back to schools, coronavirus cases are once again on…
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This country is finally reopening after Covid. But it still requires a one-week quarantine
North Korea has announced it will allow its citizens living abroad to return home in an easing of its coronavirus-era border controls. But it will…
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COVID-19 has changed and so has our immunity. Here’s how to think about risk from the virus now
COVID-19 was never just another cold. We knew it was going to stick around and keep changing to try to get the upper hand on our immune…
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Post-COVID surge in weddings, other formal functions drive uptick in jewelry sales
Jewel360.com compiled data from the Labor Department to show how jewelry sales have rebounded since…
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Early testing suggests variant BA.2.86 has been detected in US wastewater, CDC report says
Preliminary testing of wastewater in the United States has detected the new highly mutated coronavirus variant BA.2.86, according to a risk…
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It may be time to break out the masks against COVID-19, some experts say
If you’re at high risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19, it’s time to dust off those N95 masks and place them snugly over your nose and…
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Long COVID symptoms create a greater burden of disability than heart disease or cancer, new study shows
People who survived COVID-19 early in the pandemic, before there were vaccines, continued to be at higher risk for a slew of health problems for up…
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Scientists race to understand highly mutated coronavirus variant spotted in four countries, including the US
A highly mutated new variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 has countries on alert as scientists scramble to understand how far it has spread and…
Continue Reading You may want to consider which arm you use to get your COVID-19 injection, study says
When you go to get your newly updated COVID-19 booster this fall, you might want to choose the arm the vaccine goes in…
Continue Reading COVID-19 levels are rising but still relatively low in the US, surveillance data shows
Federal surveillance data suggests that COVID-19 levels are trending up in the United States, but key metrics remain well below most other points in…
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This country has finally scrapped the last of its Covid restrictions
New Zealand scrapped the last of its Covid restrictions Tuesday, bringing the final curtain down on one of the world’s strictest pandemic policies…
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$190B later, reason to worry relief funds won't curb COVID's academic crisis
The 74’s look at 15 school systems shows some promising investments, but also a slew of questionable expenditures and a breakdown of…
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Three ways Covid changed the restaurant industry
In March 2020, many US restaurants had to shut their doors during the early days of the Covid pandemic in accordance with local…
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Long COVID cases in US adults are on the decline, but many continue to struggle with symptoms, studies show
The percentage of US adults reporting long COVID symptoms has fallen since the summer of 2022, but some people say they are still coping with changes…
Continue Reading New variant EG.5 is on the rise as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations go up
There’s a new coronavirus variant topping the leaderboard in the United States:…
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