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NJ Department of Health takes action to ensure access to COVID vaccines
[ad_1] NEW JERSEY (WABC) — A week after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order allowing New Yorkers easier access to COVID vaccines, New…
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Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?
[ad_1] Four years after what was once the “novel coronavirus” was declared a pandemic, COVID remains the most dangerous infectious respiratory illness regularly circulating…
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We Can Finally Do Something About the Third ‘Tripledemic’ Virus
[ad_1] Every fall, when the air turns chilly and the leaves red, pediatric ICUs begin preparing for the onslaught of the virus known as…
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What Should Go Into This Year’s COVID Vaccine?
[ad_1] This fall, millions of Americans might be lining up for yet another kind of COVID vaccine: their first-ever dose that lacks the strain…
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Vaccination Could Reduce Risk of Long COVID, Study Shows
[ad_1] Feb. 15, 2023 – After studying thousands of people’s symptoms post-COVID-19, researchers have found that getting vaccinated could potentially reduce the risk of…
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COVID Vaccines Are Turning Into Flu Shots
[ad_1] For all the legwork that public-health experts have done over the past few years to quash comparisons between COVID-19 and the flu, there…
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Is the Worst of Winter Over for COVID?
[ad_1] For months, the winter forecast in the United States seemed to be nothing but viral storm clouds. A gale of RSV swept in…
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Is COVID Immunity Hung Up on Old Variants?
[ad_1] In the two-plus years that COVID vaccines have been available in America, the basic recipe has changed just once. The virus, meanwhile, has…
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Add COVID Shot to Routine Vaccine Schedule: CDC Panel
[ad_1] By Cara Murez and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters FRIDAY, Oct. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) – In an unanimous vote on Thursday, a panel…
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It’s Gotten Awkward to Wear a Mask
[ad_1] Last week, just a couple of hours into a house-sitting stint in Massachusetts for my cousin and his wife, I received from them…
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The Masks We’ll Wear in the Next Pandemic
[ad_1] On one level, the world’s response to the coronavirus pandemic over the past two and half years was a major triumph for modern…