Category: Featured Headlines
Countries Where the Most People Have Died From COVID-19
USA Today As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into its third year, the U.S. is approaching a grim milestone – nearly 1 million COVID-19-related deaths. Even as new cases and deaths have dropped to relatively low levels as of May 2022, local and state health officials are still reporting anywhere from dozens to hundreds of fatal […]
Mar 19, 2024
U.S. measles milestone: 60 cases so far in 2024 — more than all of 2023
CBS News The U.S. has now tallied at least 60 confirmed or suspected measles cases investigated so far this year by authorities in 17 states — more than the 58 cases reported nationwide in all of 2023. It comes as health officials are grappling with multiple major outbreaks of the highly contagious virus around the world. Now with spring break travel looming, […]
Mar 19, 2024
CDC issues alert over rising measles cases in the U.S.
NBC News As of Thursday, there had been 58 measles cases in the U.S. this year, the same number as in all of 2023, the CDC said in an advisory. The country’s health agency warned doctors Monday about an increase in measles cases that in a little more than three months has equaled all of […]
Mar 19, 2024
Four Years On, the Mysteries of Covid Are Unraveling
New York Times Are superdodgers real? Is Covid seasonal? And what’s behind its strangest symptoms? Here’s what we’ve learned. When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question: How was it spreading so quickly? How sick would it make people? Would […]
Mar 13, 2024
Brazil’s staggering dengue fever crisis is a warning to the world
Washington Post Patients lying motionless in the waiting room, moaning for help. Desperate hunts for an open hospital bed.Emergency room arguments over medication. Not since the darkest days of the covid-19 pandemic, when hospital systems all over this country ruptured under the weight of the disease, has Brazil witnessed such scenes. But this time, it’s […]
Mar 12, 2024
Flu Makes a Late Stand in Some Parts of the U.S.
Medical News Today Overall, hospitalizations of all three major respiratory viruses we track (COVID-19, influenza, and RSV) have decreased markedly from their late-December/early-January peaks this season. (Explore the dataon the Inside Medicine dashboard.) Now, you may recall that I recently wrote that, anecdotally, I felt that I was seeing an increase in flu-associated hospitalizations in the Northeast. Updated […]
Mar 12, 2024
The Atlantic Cases are creeping up in America, and not because of politics. Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in Chicago have gotten sick with the disease. A sick kid in Sacramento, California, may have exposed hundreds of people to the virus […]
Mar 12, 2024
The Fourth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic
New York Times Four years ago today, society began to shut down. Shortly after noon Eastern on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid — or “the coronavirus,” then the more popular term — to be a global pandemic. Stocks plummeted in the afternoon. In the span of a single hour that night, President […]
Mar 12, 2024
New Mexico man dies of plague in state’s 1st fatality since 2020: Health officials
ABC News A New Mexico man has died from plague in the state’s first human fatality since 2020, according to health officials. The man lived in Lincoln County — located in the southeastern part of the state — and was hospitalized from the disease before dying, the New Mexico Department of Health said in a press release last week. […]
Mar 12, 2024
Florida health officials provide scant details on measles cases, worrying health experts
STAT n Sunday, public health officials in two Michigan counties warned their residents that they may have been exposed to measles. In Wayne County, an adult who had contracted the virus abroad had been in health-related settings in Dearborn on two days last week — two urgent care clinics, a CVS pharmacy, and a hospital emergency […]
Mar 6, 2024