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  • Global Health

How do pandemics begin? There's a new theory — and a new strategy to thwart them

Animals carry millions of pathogens. So it's a daunting task to find the one with the greatest potential to spark a pandemic. Now scientists are rethinking the way they hunt for that next new virus.

February 16, 2023
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff

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  • Global Health

QUIZ: How much do you know about what causes a pandemic?

As we launch a series about spillover viruses — like SARS-CoV-2, which triggered a global pandemic, you may have a lot of questions. So do we — 7, to be exact, in the quiz below. See how you do.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Door to the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

Fulton County nurse practitioner fined for allegedly making false COVID-19 claims about supplements

Penalties arose from Zoom webinars that contained what prosecutors described as false advertising.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
People in line at airport

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  • Health

Quarantine didn't weaken our immunity. But here's why experts encourage annual shots against viruses

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say 56% of Georgians are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. But only a quarter got the updated variant-targeting shots this flu season.  

December 22, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
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  • Health

Nearly 12K Georgia children lost a caregiver to COVID-19; federal funds could help

About one in every 215 children in Georgia have lost a caregiver due to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. That's nearly 12,000 people under the age of 18 whose parent or grandparent, that lived with them and provided support for them, died, according to data shared by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.

October 17, 2022
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Modern vaccine

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  • Health

Updated COVID-19 boosters for kids on their way to Georgia

Prior to FDA approval on Wednesday, Georgia healthcare providers had already pre-ordered the new boosters from Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna. 

October 12, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
This photograph, taken on February 24, 2014 during an aerial survey mission by Greenpeace in Indonesia, shows cleared trees in a forest located in the concession of Karya Makmur Abadi, which was being developed for a palm oil plantation. Environmental group Greenpeace on February 26 accused US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble of aiding the destruction of Indonesian rainforests.

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  • Climate

Zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 and monkeypox will become more common, experts say

Researchers say diseases that spread between humans and animals will become increasingly commonplace as human expansion into previously uninhabited areas intensifies.

September 29, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A young child is bandaged on shoulder where a vaccine would go.

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  • Health

Flu season may be worse this year with relaxed COVID-19 mitigation efforts, experts warn

Some epidemiologists say the upcoming flu season is a bit of uncharted territory with respect to its expected intensity. That’s because, over the last two years, people have been wearing masks to avoid catching COVID-19, which also dramatically slowed transmission of influenza viruses.  

September 29, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Health officials are predicting this winter could see an active flu season on top of potential COVID surges. In short, it's a good year to be a respiratory virus. Left: Image of SARS-CoV-2 omicron virus particles (pink) replicating within an infected cell (teal). Right: Image of an inactive H3N2 influenza virus.

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  • Health

Flu is expected to flare up in U.S. this winter, raising fears of a 'twindemic'

After virtually disappearing for the last two years, there are troubling clues that the flu could come roaring back this year, to cause trouble alongside COVID.

September 23, 2022
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  • Rob Stein
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  • Health

Variant-specific booster for COVID-19 now available in Georgia

Dr. Carlos del Rio with Emory University School of Medicine says last year’s booster has been replaced by the new bivalent one, and that people can expect an annual COVID vaccine similar to how the influenza vaccine is updated yearly.  

September 13, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Twin sisters Tripti and Pari, who lost both their parents to COVID-19, play at a relative's home in Bhopal, India on May 11, 2021. A new study estimates that 8 million kids lost a parent or primary caregiver to a pandemic-related cause.

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  • Children's Health

Nearly 8 million kids lost a parent or primary caregiver to the pandemic

A new study finds numbers far higher than previously thought. India has the greatest number of kids affected. The U.S. has 250,000 kids in this category but lags behind in aid for bereaved families.

September 07, 2022
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
The new COVID boosters rolling out this month represent a shift in strategy, said White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha during a press briefing. The goal now will likely be to roll out new boosters annually.

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  • Your Health

The new COVID booster could be the last you'll need for a year, federal officials say

The COVID-19 vaccine strategy may be shifting toward Americans getting yearly vaccinations, like many do with annual flu shots.

September 06, 2022
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By:
  • Rob Stein and
  • Jane Greenhalgh
Medical Minute

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  • Medical Treatments

Medical Minute: Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

This week’s Medical Minute,  discusses growing evidence that chronic neuropsychiatric symptoms follow COVID-19 infection.

September 03, 2022
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  • GPB News Staff
PBS NewsHour Weekend COVID-19 boosters shots ‘a tough balance’ for FDA, epidemiologists say

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  • Health

Coronavirus variant-specific boosters will soon be available in Georgia. Here's who needs a shot

The Food and Drug Administration earlier this week authorized the updated Pfizer-BioNTech booster shots. The endorsement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came Thursday, hours after advisers to the CDC voted to recommend reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines.

September 02, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
<em></em>Flags at the Washington Monument commemorate Americans who died from  COVID-19. In 2021, life expectancy in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row.

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  • Health Care

Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by COVID-19

Americans' life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row and is the biggest drop since the 1920s. COVID-19 is driving the downward trend, according to CDC data.

August 31, 2022
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By:
  • Jane Greenhalgh and
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
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