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CDC No Longer a Reliable Source for Vaccine Information, Says Noted...
CDC No Longer a Reliable Source for Vaccine Information, Says Noted Pediatrician
By Sunita Sohrabji
There are major efforts taking place around the country to remove...
The West Coast Health Alliance, CDPH, and Leading National Medical Organizations...
WCHA disagrees with CDC’s Advisory Committee’s change to decades-long vaccine recommendation that has reduced pediatric Hepatitis B infections by 99 percent
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OC Health Care Agency Reports 1st Case of Monkeypox in a...
Santa Ana- On August 23, 2022, the Orange County Health Care Agency (HCA) recorded the first case of human monkeypox (hMPX) infection in a youth...
CDC Activates Emergency Operations Center for Monkeypox Response
Atlanta, GA--Today, CDC continues to lean forward with an aggressive public health response to the monkeypox outbreak by activating its Emergency Operations Center (EOC)....
CDC Strengthens Recommendations and Expands Eligibility for COVID-19 Booster Shots
Atlanta, GA--Following today’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP), CDC is expanding eligibility of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses to everyone 5...
CDC: Firearm Deaths Grow and Disparities Widen
Atlanta, GA--Firearms were involved in 79% of all homicides and 53% of all suicides in 2020. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, there...
CDC Alerts Providers to Hepatitis Cases of Unknown Origin
Atlanta, GA--CDC today issued a nationwide health alert to notify clinicians and public health authorities about a cluster of children identified with hepatitis and adenovirus...
CDC Launches New Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics
Atlanta, GA--Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the launch of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA). CFA seeks...
Approximately 2.55 Million Students Reported Currently Using a Tobacco Product in...
Atlanta, GA--The 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) was conducted among U.S. middle and high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed that...
CDC: Test-To-Stay Options Can Help Keep Students in School During COVID-19
Washington, DC--Today, CDC released two reports in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report highlighting the use of test-to-stay practices used in schools to minimize absenteeism...