Jennifer Shutt, Daily Montanan Congress held its first hearing on monkeypox Wednesday, with lawmakers rebuking federal public health officials for their slow response to the outbreak, even though the hearing came four months after the first U.S. case was diagnosed. “By any measure, in fact by every measure, the response …
Read More »CDC Recommends Pfizer, Moderna Covid Vaccines For Children Under 5
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Saturday that children as young as six months old receive Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. The move follows a unanimous vote earlier in the day by an advisory panel of outside experts known as Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or …
Read More »Unvaccinated Individuals Are 11 Times More Likely To Die From COVID-19
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shared results from a study on Friday that found that unvaccinated individuals are eleven times more likely to die from COVID-19 compared to vaccinated people. The study also found that unvaccinated individuals are ten times more likely to be hospitalized and are …
Read More »Biden: Social Media Misinformation On Covid “Killing People”
President Joe Biden said Friday that social media misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccinations is “killing people,” and the White House said Facebook needs to clean up its act. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Poli Alert (@polialertcom) “They’re killing people. The only pandemic we have is among …
Read More »CDC Director Urges Parents To Get Teenagers Vaccinated
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky is urging parents to get their teenagers vaccinated because of the rise of COVID-19 hospitalizations in March and April. “I am deeply concerned by the numbers of hospitalized adolescents and saddened to see the numbers of adolescents who require treatment in …
Read More »CDC Updates Mask Guidelines For Summer Camps
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday new mask guidelines for that summer camps. The CDC said staff and campers who are fully vaccinated don’t need to wear masks, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, territorial regulations or if it is a business or workplace policy. …
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