Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine gets the nod from CDC committee
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisers voted Sunday to recommend the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine for the US. It is…
Continue ReadingCenters for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisers voted Sunday to recommend the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine for the US. It is…
Continue ReadingThe Food and Drug Administration gave Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine the green light for emergency use on Saturday — another…
Continue ReadingA third vaccine is poised to join the fight against Covid-19, with 3.9 million doses expected to be available right away, a health official said…
Continue ReadingThe US Food and Drug Administration authorized Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine Saturday. It is the first single dose Covid-19 vaccine…
Continue ReadingTravel precautions will be imposed for individuals coming to the US from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo — two countries fighting…
Continue ReadingEven with a third vaccine nearing authorization and a rise in vaccination rates, officials say another devastating Covid-19 spike could be on the…
Continue ReadingA New Jersey plumber who wanted to help Texans dealing with burst pipes and other damage after last week’s winter storms drove to Houston with…
Continue ReadingThe health director in Tennessee’s largest county resigned Friday after the state health department found that 2,500 Covid-19 vaccine were…
Continue ReadingIdaho officials reported 233 new COVID-19 cases and 1 new death on…
Continue ReadingLocal heath officials reported 78 new COVID-19 cases in the area…
Continue ReadingIdaho officials reported 312 new COVID-19 cases and 9 new deaths on…
Continue ReadingThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted new recommendations Friday on the importance of good ventilation in preventing coronavirus…
Continue ReadingCanada expects to receive more than 6.5 million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of March, with tens of millions more vaccines arriving between April and…
Continue ReadingVaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Friday to recommend the agency grant emergency use authorization to Johnson &…
Continue ReadingJust one dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine can induce a strong enough immune response in people who have already had COVID-19 that…
Continue ReadingLocal health officials reported 122 new COVID-19 cases and two new deaths in the area…
Continue ReadingIt has been almost a year since a jury trial has been held in Idaho, but courtrooms could soon be opening their…
Continue ReadingEven with slowed infection rates and increased vaccinations, officials say another devastating COVID-19 spike could be on the horizon depending on…
Continue ReadingWith Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine on the verge of being authorized for emergency use by the US Food and Drug Administration,…
Continue ReadingUS Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisers are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss the potential emergency authorization of a third coronavirus…
Continue ReadingAbout a dozen sailors and Marines onboard the USS San Diego tested positive for COVID-19 while the ship was deployed to the Middle East, the Navy…
Continue ReadingA year into the Covid-19 pandemic, it appears that trends have finally shifted in a positive direction. New cases, hospitalizations and deaths are…
Continue ReadingYou’re mindlessly scrolling on your phone after a long day at work, sifting through miles of negative posts. In what seems like minutes, hours…
Continue ReadingThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Friday it has given $20 million to help a program aimed at distributing coronavirus vaccines to…
Continue ReadingWhen you visit the doctor, often the first order of business is wrapping a blood pressure cuff around your arm and looking to the display screen for…
Continue ReadingAfter six straight weeks of declines in new Covid-19 cases in the US, that number has started to plateau, even as hospitalizations and deaths…
Continue ReadingThe white van arrived in slum areas of Bhopal, a city in central India, blasting a message over the speaker system that seemed too good to refuse:…
Continue ReadingDrugs typically used to treat rheumatoid arthritis can help critically ill COVID-19 patients in intensive care units, one new study finds. But…
Continue ReadingIdaho officials reported 306 new COVID-19 cases and 10 new deaths on…
Continue ReadingLocal health officials reported 100 new COVID-19 cases and three new deaths in the area…
Continue ReadingGovernor Mark Gordon and the Wyoming Department of Health have removed the health order addressing operations of personal care services, along with a…
Continue ReadingThere’s enough to worry about during a pregnancy, even without a pandemic. As the vaccine rollout continues, there’s still concern over…
Continue ReadingA new ensemble forecast published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the daily Covid-19 death rate will slow in the…
Continue ReadingWearing masks and other safety precautions are key to stop the spread of COVID-19 during indoor group exercise, according to two new reports…
Continue ReadingVaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna are trying to get out ahead of some of the new coronavirus variants that are causing concern around the world.…
Continue ReadingThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be doing more to guide and encourage improved air circulation in buildings —…
Continue ReadingA majority of US adults — nearly six in 10 — say that K-12 schools that are not currently open for in-person learning should wait until…
Continue ReadingTwo separate teams of researchers said this week they have found a worrying new coronavirus variant in New York City and elsewhere in the Northeast…
Continue ReadingChildren who are exposed to tobacco smoke have a greater chance of having high blood pressure, a new study has found. Researchers found 6% of…
Continue ReadingA new ensemble forecast published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the daily Covid-19 death rate will slow in the…
Continue ReadingCoronavirus infections across the US are still on the way down, and more Americans are getting vaccinated — but variants could cause…
Continue ReadingAs demand for Covid-19 vaccines continues to outpace supply, there’s still not sufficient supply to cover everyone within even the top priority…
Continue ReadingWhile most Texans had more than enough to worry about in last week’s icy storm that led to power outages and water problems, some, like Tania…
Continue ReadingThe US is one step closer to having a third Covid-19 vaccine and it can’t come soon enough. With people clamoring for a shot, it was welcome…
Continue ReadingIdaho officials reported 423 new COVID-19 cases on…
Continue ReadingThe Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and Central District HealtH have confirmed the first known infection with the UK (B.1.1.7) variant of the…
Continue ReadingWashington Mayor Muriel Bowser’s sister died Wednesday at age 64 from “complications related to Covid-19,” the mayor said in a…
Continue ReadingIdaho Falls School District 91 has a new COVID-19 response…
Continue ReadingLocal health officials reported 141 new COVID-19 cases in the area Wednesday.…
Continue ReadingIn an analysis released Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration said the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has met the requirements for…
Continue ReadingPeople in the current priority groups are breaking in the new mass vaccination clinic in Southeast…
Continue ReadingJohnson & Johnson says that it has 4 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine ready to ship “immediately” once it receives emergency use…
Continue ReadingThe receptionist at the doctor’s office asks a question from behind her double mask and face guard on the opposite side of a large, plastic…
Continue ReadingIn an analysis released Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration said the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has met the requirements for…
Continue ReadingThere’s new evidence that connects testing positive for COVID-19 antibodies from a prior infection with a significantly lower risk of becoming…
Continue ReadingCoronavirus infections across the US are still on the way down, and more Americans are getting vaccinated — but variants could cause…
Continue ReadingThere are very few places across the globe that have managed to escape the COVID-19 pandemic; even Antarctica has reported cases. But while the virus…
Continue ReadingThe United States can expect to see a total of 240 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of March, drug companies told a House subcommittee…
Continue ReadingEach week, Sheri McGregor gets hundreds of emails from parents shut out of their children’s lives. Every story is different, she said. What the…
Continue ReadingIdaho officials reported 282 new COVID-19 cases and 14 new deaths on…
Continue ReadingEastern Idaho Public Health is preparing to schedule COVID-19 vaccination appointments for the next group of eligible recipients.…
Continue ReadingThe traditional working day doesn’t benefit night owls, with people who prefer to stay up late twice as likely to underperform at work as early…
Continue ReadingLocal health officials reported 113 new COVID-19 cases and 2 new deaths in the area…
Continue ReadingAfter Covid-19 took the lives of half a million victims in the US, the nation’s top infectious disease expert said the mass tragedy was…
Continue ReadingDecades ago, Soviet scientists researched biological weapons at a site in Volginsky, about 70 miles east of Moscow. Now, that site is being used to…
Continue ReadingFlags are flying at half staff. Not for one death, but for 500,000 of them. That’s how many lives have been lost in the US to…
Continue ReadingGovernor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that movie theaters would reopen in New York City next month, welcome news for an industry that has been…
Continue ReadingTalking to someone on the phone for 10 minutes multiple times a week — if you’re in control of the conversation — can decrease…
Continue ReadingThe state of Idaho is now requiring anyone seeking COVID-19 vaccines in the state to either live or work in the state.…
Continue ReadingThe Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) will hold a briefing about the COVID-19 vaccine in Idaho at 2:30 p.m.…
Continue ReadingVaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration will meet Friday to discuss whether to recommend Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19…
Continue ReadingIt could be nature’s call, the pitter-patter of little feet (No, honey, it’s not daytime yet, go back to bed) or a squirrel scampering…
Continue ReadingThe US has now surpassed the devastating milestone of half a million COVID-19 deaths. It’s a staggering figure that experts say did not have to…
Continue ReadingIt was like I had asked her to fork over her Social Security number and firstborn child. “What do you need it for? What are you going to do…
Continue ReadingVaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration will meet Friday to discuss whether to recommend Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19…
Continue ReadingA study that found teachers — not students — were the probable source of several school-related Covid-19 outbreaks highlights the need to…
Continue ReadingA St. Charles couple that died from the coronavirus just days apart spent the entirety of 2020 isolated at home, their family…
Continue ReadingA preliminary study involving 813 Quebec health-care workers who tested positive for COVID-19 has shown that people with the coronavirus could lose…
Continue ReadingThe Pratt & Whitney engine that failed minutes into United Airlines flight 328 showed signs of metal fatigue, investigators with the National…
Continue ReadingIdaho officials reported 332 new COVID-19 cases on…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden is slated to deliver remarks and participate in a candle-lighting ceremony Monday evening at the White House as the country…
Continue ReadingShannon was used to her socially awkward son being bullied by other boys at the private school he attends in Atlanta. But when she picked him up from…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden honored the 500,000 American lives lost to coronavirus on Monday, speaking of the collective grief of a nation and in personal…
Continue ReadingLocal health officials reported 147 new COVID-19 cases in the area…
Continue ReadingA nightmare of this magnitude seemed unfathomable just a year ago. Half a million US lives have been lost to COVID-19. That’s more than the…
Continue ReadingLegislation defining pandemics that would appear to eliminate the coronavirus pandemic from qualifying as an emergency in Idaho is going to the…
Continue ReadingThe US Food and Drug Administration has issued updated guidance for companies that plan to adapt their COVID-19 medical products — including…
Continue ReadingThe Teton County Health Department opened registration Monday for the following population groups listed below.…
Continue ReadingOn the brink of a devastating milestone — 500,000 US COVID-19 deaths — the US is at a crossroads in the course of this pandemic. While…
Continue ReadingThis week is President Joe Biden’s first big test, as his massive relief COVID-19 relief bill comes together on the Hill with very little…
Continue ReadingNew data shows that the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine “provides high levels of protection against infection and…
Continue ReadingDr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that it’s “possible” Americans will still need to wear masks in 2022 to protect against the…
Continue ReadingThroughout Olivia Thompson’s 12-hour shift as a cardiac and Covid-19 nurse in Chandler, Arizona, she closely monitors the oxygen levels of…
Continue ReadingThe last 12 months have been tolling for Linda Harris, who lives in a small Southwest Georgia city hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.…
Continue ReadingFrom Washington state to Florida, from California to Massachusetts, facilities are opening to help the growing number of Americans who suffer from…
Continue ReadingThe United States will within hours record its unfathomable 500,000th death from COVID-19 paradoxically at a moment of rare hope in the pandemic. Yet…
Continue ReadingJust over a year since the first known US COVID-19 death, more than 500,000 people will have died from the disease by the end of this week.…
Continue ReadingHere’s some background information about cloning, a process of creating an identical copy of an original. Facts Reproductive Cloning is the…
Continue ReadingCovid-19 trends may be encouraging in recent weeks — but a new forecast offered a grim reminder the US is not in the clear. More than 497,500…
Continue ReadingBlack History Month is a celebration of Black excellence and you are invited. Right now, all over the United States, Black families are teaching the…
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