![](https://abc17news.b-cdn.net/abc17news.com/2021/06/kmiz-health-375x225.png)
Fauci: You get vaccinated because you want to save your life
Dr. Anthony Fauci and CNN’s Chris Cuomo discuss the importance of wearing masks and getting vaccinated as the Delta variant of Covid-19 continues to surge around the US.
Continue ReadingDr. Anthony Fauci and CNN’s Chris Cuomo discuss the importance of wearing masks and getting vaccinated as the Delta variant of Covid-19 continues to surge around the US.
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna and Madeline Holcombe, CNN The CDC’s decision to change its mask guidance this week was prompted by scientists’ determination — only days old — that vaccinated people with breakthrough Delta coronavirus variant infections can pass the virus to others, the center’s director said Wednesday. Dr. Rochelle Walensky said such breakthrough infections are
Continue ReadingBy Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent It’s an understatement to say that living through a global pandemic for the last 18 months or so has been hard on everyone. But few groups in the United States have had it as bad as older folks. Very early on, it became apparent that the older
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Tuesday that localities encourage all teachers, staff, students, and visitors in schools to wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status. “In areas with substantial and high transmission, CDC recommends fully vaccinated people wear masks in public indoor settings to help prevent
Continue ReadingCNN’s Amara Walker discusses the debate states and school districts are having over requiring students to wear masks to return to in-person learning and the difficult decisions parents are having to make.
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN To prevent further spread of the Delta variant, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance on Tuesday to recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors when in areas with “substantial” and “high” transmission of Covid-19, which includes nearly two-thirds of all US counties. “In recent
Continue ReadingBy Matt Villano, CNN Add it to your fall 2021 back to school shopping list: Buy more masks. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to recommend that everyone in K-12 schools wear a mask, regardless of their vaccination status, as it updates its masking guidelines in response to the more transmissible
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe and Steve Almasy, CNN While people putting their masks back on indoors will help reduce the spread of Covid-19 across the country, getting more Americans vaccinated is still central to ending the pandemic, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said Tuesday. “The bottom line is the masks will help us reduce spread
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Jason Gallagher, an infectious disease pharmacist in Philadelphia had gotten the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine through a clinical trial in November, but this summer he didn’t like the direction Covid-19 cases were taking due to variants. “Come June, I started to get nervous about this Delta variant spreading and had
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN If you are living with heart disease, having a small amount of alcohol each day is linked to a lower risk of having another heart attack, stroke, angina (heart pain because of constricted arteries) or an early death, according to a new large study. “This is not the general population —
Continue ReadingBy John Bonifield and Nadia Kounang, CNN Moderna will expand the size of its Covid-19 vaccine trial in younger children, the company said Monday, and will not seek emergency use authorization for the vaccine in that age group until later this year or early next year. “We are actively discussing a proposal with the FDA.
Continue ReadingCNN’s Randi Kaye spoke to Nurse Tammy Daniel in a Jacksonville hospital about Covid-19 patients begging for vaccines.
Continue ReadingBy Ralph Ellis, CNN Florida and Arkansas currently share a grim distinction when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus. Every one of the two states’ counties is now listed as having “high” levels of community transmission, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC lists high transmission
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent All Kimberly Cooley wants to do is hug her 6-year-old nephews — and she can’t because tens of millions of Americans are choosing not to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Cooley received two doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in February, but blood tests show the shots didn’t give her antibodies
Continue ReadingBy Nadia Kounang, CNN As the number of Covid-19 cases surges in the United States, more than 50 health and medical groups — including the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association — issued a joint statement calling for all health care and
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN As communities across the country prepare for a return to school, many are still deciding how much time and how many resources to devote to routine Covid-19 testing of students and staff — and what that might look like. “Lots of places have operationalized screening testing differently,” Dr. Westyn Branch-Elliman, an
Continue ReadingBy John Duffy, CNN Teens and tweens may not come out and tell you, but there is a lot they want you to know about their lives. Yes, sometimes adolescents have surly attitudes. However, they still need your help as allies, guides and consultants. Here are some of their thoughts I’ve gleaned from my teen
Continue ReadingDr. Michael Bolding made an emotional plea for people in Arkansas to get the Covid-19 vaccine. He speaks with CNN’s Pamela Brown about what it has been like treating unvaccinated patients as cases surge.
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN Less than half of the US population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19 — and with cases on the rise, experts are urging a return to precautions reminiscent of the earlier days of the pandemic. “What I would say bluntly is: If you are not vaccinated right now in the United States,
Continue Reading