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News Articles: COVID-19

A registered nurse prepares a dose of a Monkeypox vaccine at the Salt Lake County Health Department Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Salt Lake City. U.S. health officials on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, authorized a new monkeypox vaccination strategy designed to stretch limited supplies by allowing health professionals to vaccinate up to five people — instead of one — with each vial.

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  • Health

Monkeypox cases are rising fast in Georgia — along with COVID-19

In June, there was just one confirmed case of monkeypox in Georgia. Now the state is seeing well over 700 cases.  

August 12, 2022
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By:
  • Leah Fleming
A vial labelled "Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine" is seen in this illustration taken Jan. 16, 2022. Photo by Dado Ruvic/Illustration/REUTERS

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  • Health

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Georgia could breach the divide with the unvaccinated

Health care providers hope the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine will appeal to people who haven't recieved any doses of previous vaccine iterations. 

August 10, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Georgia Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams speaks on Thursday, July 28, 2022, during a rally in Clayton, Ga.

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  • News

Abrams tests positive for COVID-19, has mild symptoms

Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has COVID-19. Abrams campaign spokesperson Alex Floyd says Abrams tested positive for the respiratory illness Wednesday morning after giving a public speech on the economy Tuesday night in Atlanta.

August 10, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press
Tomeka Kimbrough-Hilson was diagnosed with uterine fibroids in 2006 and underwent surgery to remove a non-cancerous mass.  When she started experiencing symptoms again in 2020, she was unable to get an appointment with a gynecologist. Her experience was not uncommon, according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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  • Health

A 'staggering' number of people couldn't get care during the pandemic, poll finds

Insured or not, one in five said they couldn't get treated for serious illness, while preventive and elective procedures were neglected. Disruptions in care hit Black and Native Americans the hardest.

August 08, 2022
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
An image from an electron microscope of the monkeypox virus (orange) on infected cells (green).

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  • Health

COVID sewage surveillance labs join the hunt for monkeypox

Wastewater testing has proved a reliable early alarm bell for COVID-19 outbreaks. U.S. researchers are now adapting the approach to track the explosive spread of monkeypox, and maybe other viruses.

August 08, 2022
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By:
  • Mark Kreidler
A screenshot of a map showing case counts of COVID-19 reported in different animal species, part of an interactive <a href="https://vis.csh.ac.at/sars-ani/#infections">COVID data tracking dashboard</a> rendered by Complexity Science Hub Vienna. The drawings represent the type of animal, including both domestic and wild; the size of the bubbles reflects the number of cases in each locale.

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  • Global Health

How many animal species have caught COVID? First global tracker has (partial) answers

Just as human counts are incomplete, so are animal counts. But the first worldwide compilation of animal cases is a start at understanding the extent of human-to-animal transmission, scientists say.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
People protest during a rally calling for more government action to combat the spread of monkeypox at Foley Square on July 21, 2022 in New York City.

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  • Global Health

Critics say 'monkeypox' is a racist name. But it's not going away anytime soon

Scientists call the name "discriminatory and stigmatizing." The World Health Organization agrees. But no progress has been made on finding a new name. And some say the name doesn't need changing.

August 01, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
A worker stands on a platform near a Chinese national flag, Friday, July 15, 2022, in Beijing. China's economy contracted in the three months ending in June compared with the previous quarter after Shanghai and other cities shut down to fight coronavirus outbreaks, but the government said a "stable recovery" is under way after businesses reopened.

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  • Asia

China backs away from growth goal, sticks to virus controls

China's leaders effectively acknowledged the struggling economy won't hit its official 5.5% growth target this year and said Thursday they will try to prop up sagging consumer demand.

July 29, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
President Joe Biden, on screen at left, listens as SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, right, speaks from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Biden tests negative for COVID

President Biden tested negative for COVID-19 and will discontinue his isolation, his doctor wrote Tuesday in a letter. The White House announced that Biden will deliver remarks at 11:30 a.m. ET.

July 27, 2022
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By:
  • Washington Desk
President Joe Biden speaks on the phone with his national security team on July 22 from the White House in Washington.

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  • Politics

Biden's COVID-19 symptoms are nearly resolved, the White House doctor says

Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the White House physician, reports that President Joe Biden has "residual nasal congestion and minimal hoarseness" after four full days of Paxlovid treatment.

July 25, 2022
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  • Washington Desk
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) at a Senate hearing last week.

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  • Politics

Sen. Joe Manchin has tested positive for COVID-19

Manchin announced he had contracted the virus and was experiencing mild symptoms Monday morning.

July 25, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A man's forehead and his eyes which are closed. Inside him a tunnel of light with floating iridescent particles, in the end a light.

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  • National

How a near-death experience could change the way you live

When Randy Schiefer was hospitalized with COVID-19, he wasn't sure he would survive. Now, he looks back at that experience as the most important thing that has ever happened to him.

July 25, 2022
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By:
  • Lee Hale
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, left, listens as President Joe Biden speaks virtually during a meeting with his economic team in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington on Friday.

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  • Politics

Biden holds a gas prices event virtually as he isolates with COVID-19

The president will isolate through Tuesday, and if he tests negative, at that point he could resume a normal schedule on Wednesday. He has continued to work since testing positive on Thursday.

July 22, 2022
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By:
  • Washington Desk
In this photo provided by the White House, President Joe Biden speaks with Democratic Sen. Bob Casey by telephone from the White House on Thursday.

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  • Politics

Biden's symptoms improved despite elevated temperature Thursday night, his doctor says

President Biden had a slightly elevated temperature last night but his physician says that "his symptoms have improved" as he receives treatment after testing positive for COVID-19 on Thursday.

July 22, 2022
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By:
  • Washington Desk
Pfizer's Paxlovid pills are seen on display. The medicine received an emergency use authorization for COVID-19 last December.

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  • Politics

What to know about Paxlovid, the COVID drug President Biden is using to speed recovery

Paxlovid has been highly effective at reducing the risks of hospitalization and death, but some patients report a "Paxlovid rebound" in which the disease returns.

July 21, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
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