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Lives Cut Short: COVID-19’s Heavy Burden on Older Latinos
The coronavirus pandemic has eaten away at the Latino edge in life expectancy in staggering fashion, and taken a disproportionate toll on older members of the community compared with whites. LOS ANGELES – In December 2020, about 10 months into the COVID-19 pandemic,...
LA County reports 1st presumptive case of monkeypox
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County on Thursday confirmed its first presumptive case of monkeypox infection. At this time the county is awaiting final confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to health officials, the patient is an adult...
Studies suggest current COVID wave is bigger than we realize
May 31, 2022 COVID boosters for older Americans may be more important than ever, according to a new report, as studies suggest the current COVID wave is much bigger than we realize; CBS2's Dick Brennan reports....
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, on the latest long COVID research
In less than two and a half years, one million people in the United States have died from COVID-19. More than 250,000 children have lost a parent or caregiver to the virus. WATCH THE FULL EPISODE OF...
Doctors, nurses risked their lives to battle COVID. Now they’re facing a mental health crisis
COVID hospitalizations and deaths may be down from their surge peaks, but the nation's hospitals and clinics still face a population in crisis: the healthcare workers themselves. Overworked medical professionals, who risked their health and their...
JABS UP Parents rush to get chickenpox jabs as cases of monkeypox surge – how to tell them apart
PARENTS have rushed to get their kids vaccinated against chickenpox due to fears surrounding an uptick in monkeypox infections. In the last six weeks the number of people who have had a jab for chickenpox has gone up by 146 per cent. Data from Well Pharmacy shows that...
Covid was vanishing last Memorial Day. Cases are five times higher now.
For the third year, Americans are greeting the unofficial start of summer shadowed by the specter of the coronavirus amid rising covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country. The United States is recording more than 100,000 infections a day — at least five...
Hepatitis A Symptoms as FDA Probes Outbreak Possibly Linked to Strawberries
An outbreak of hepatitis A infections in several U.S. states and Canada potentially linked to fresh organic strawberries from the FreshKampo and HEB brands is under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
WHO upgrades global monkeypox threat to ‘moderate
Washington: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday announced that it has decided to upgrade the threat from monkeypox to the world to 'moderate' from 'low', as the tropical virus spreads to dozens of countries, The Daily Mail reported. The WHO said that the...
‘The pandemic won’t stop us’: the Beijingers skirting Covid rules
Mothers hosting playdates near cordoned-off parks, mahjong maestros huddled in streets and youngsters slugging night-time beers on barricaded sidewalks -- Beijingers are making the most of the small spaces available as China's coronavirus controls close in. Meanwhile...
Monkeypox outbreak could be just ‘the peak of the iceberg’, WHO warns
Monkeypox outbreak could be just ‘the peak of the iceberg’, WHO warns The World Health Organization has warned that 200 monkeypox cases found in recent weeks outside countries where the virus usually circulates could be just the beginning. “We don’t know if we are...
CA’s First Suspected Monkeypox Case Reported in Sacramento
Sacramento health officials are investigating a “likely” case of monkeypox, which marks the first suspected case in California, according to the Los Angeles Times. The person, who recently traveled to Europe, is isolating at home and isn’t in contact with other...