An uptick in COVID-19 patients at New York hospitals suggests this summer wave of infections could be nastier than last year as new variants spread nationally. Emergency room visits for COVID-19 averaged 181 per week as of late June, with a total of about 750 COVID patients hospitalized, the most recent statewide date show. By […]
The California Department of Public Health reports a summer surge of COVID-19 infection in the state. Week over week results in late June show emergency room visits in California rose by around 23% from the week before, with a test positivity rate increasing to 8%, the highest for this time of year since summer 2022. Death rates have […]
What’s to blame for that run-down feeling of muscle soreness and congestion? While you may want to rule out COVID-19, don’t. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says COVID is on the rise in 39 states, including Florida. Test positivity rates increased nationally to nearly 7% from 5% the week before. Hospital emergency room […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is tracking the new COVID variant KP.3 as data shows its dominance across the United States. “CDC is tracking SARS-CoV-2 variant KP.3. For the two-week period ending on June 8, 2024, CDC predicts that KP.3 is growing and will become the most common SARS-CoV-2 lineage nationally,” […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows that a new COVID variant, the KP.3 variant, is rising to dominance across the United States. For the two-week period starting on May 26 and ending on June 8, the government agency data shows that KP.3 accounts for 25% of COVID cases in the U.S. and […]
A defunct New Mexico spa previously under investigation for potentially exposing clients to HIV through “vampire facials” has been linked to at least three cases, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Thursday. In July of last year, the New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) advised former clients of VIP Beauty Salon and Spa […]
Two hunters who ate meat from deer known to have chronic wasting disease − or “zombie deer disease” − developed similar neurological conditions and died, raising concerns that it can pass from animals to humans. Found in deer in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming in the 1990s, chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been recorded in […]
Life expectancy rose to 77.5 years on average in 2022, a slight increase of 1.1 years from 2021, according to new studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Life expectancy at birth increased 1.1 years…largely because of decreases in mortality due to COVID-19, heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, and homicide,” the report stated. […]
Four years after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers continue the search to uncover the causes of long COVID and develop treatments. Nearly one in four adults who contracted COVID-19 developed long COVID symptoms, according to the most recent data from the Census Bureau. Anyone infected with COVID-19 can develop long COVID, but the […]
