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Plans underway to ramp up monkeypox testing if outbreak grows quickly

Mon, 2022-05-30 13:27 — FNUOvviyaa

Plans underway to ramp up monkeypox testing if outbreak grows quickly As more cases are uncovered in a global monkeypox outbreak, biotech companies and health officials are looking to make PCR testing for the virus more widely available in the US. Jacqueline Howard and Michael Nedelman, CNN CNN

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WHO: Monkeypox won’t turn into pandemic, but many unknowns

Mon, 2022-05-30 09:04 — mike kraft

WHO: Monkeypox won't turn into pandemic, but many unknowns LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s top monkeypox expert said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it’s spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission. AP NEWS

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Overview: China, North Korea, international health regulatons

Mon, 2022-05-30 08:59 — mike kraft

Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus Streets in Beijing were busier on Monday as residents in two districts were allowed to return to work, while Shanghai inched closer towards lifting its two-month-old COVID-19 lockdown this week, as the number of cases across China fell. Reuters Reuters

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Covid-weary Americans enter summer with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic

Mon, 2022-05-30 08:39 — mike kraft

Covid was vanishing last Memorial Day. Cases are five times higher now. Covid-weary Americans enter summer with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic. Washington Post

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Patient group calls for more regular scheduling of recurring COVID-19 boosters to encourage vaccinations

Fri, 2022-05-27 17:28 — mike kraft

Patient group calls for recurring COVID-19 boosters to cut through vaccine apathy The nonprofit ECRI said adopting a booster shot schedule targeting emerging variants would create certainty and convince more Americans to get shots. YahooNews

Fewer than one in three Americans have received an extra shot of the COVID-19 vaccine and one patient safety group thinks that's a public health challenge.

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U.S. CDC publishes guidelines on monkeypox vaccine

Fri, 2022-05-27 17:17 — mike kraft

U.S. CDC publishes guidelines on monkeypox vaccine The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday published recommendations by its group of independent experts on a smallpox vaccine that limit its use to only people who work closely with viruses such as monkeypox. Reuters Reuters

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U.S. federal agency is probing hospitals with high rate of Covid outbreaks

Fri, 2022-05-27 10:40 — mike kraft

CMS turning attention to hospitals with Covid outbreaks The nation’s hospital regulator is probing hospitals where patients were likely infected with Covid after a record spike in transmission this year. POLITICO

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is probing hospitals where a high rate of patients have gotten Covid-19 infections after cases spiked to record highs this year.

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U.S. Covid cases are probably undercounted, as tracking efforts fade

Fri, 2022-05-27 10:27 — mike kraft

Nation's latest COVID-19 wave largely hidden from view, health experts say 'There's a lot of COVID out there,' one expert acknowledged. ABC News ABC News

Current COVID-19 cases are just a fraction of what they were at the peak of the omicron wave.

But many people in the country may be noticing what seems to be a flood of cases in their social circles.

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US is offering vaccines to certain people exposed to monkeypox--CDC information .

Fri, 2022-05-27 10:12 — mike kraft

US is offering vaccines to certain people exposed to monkeypox. Here's what you should know As global health leaders investigate an unusual outbreak of monkeypox across more than a dozen countries, discussions in the United States have turned to vaccination against the disease -- and certain people exposed to the virus could be offered a vaccine. Jacqueline Howard, CNN CNN

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Monkeypox: EU discussing common purchase of vaccine, antiviral against monkeypox, WHO says the spread can be contained

Fri, 2022-05-27 09:59 — mike kraft

EU in talks for common purchase of vaccine, antiviral against monkeypox The European Union is working on a common purchasing agreement for vaccines and antiviralsagainst monkeypox, as cases of the viral disease usually endemic to Africa gather steam in Europe and beyond. Simon Johnson,Natalie Grover Reuters

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