CNN – Health

By Katia Hetter, CNN Covid-19 vaccines are very effective against preventing infection, but no vaccine is 100% effective. Fully vaccinated people can and do become infected. It’s not known exactly how many of these breakthrough infections are occurring, as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not collecting national data this comprehensive. Based

By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins and Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Full US Food and Drug Administration approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is “imminent,” a senior federal official told CNN on Friday — but said no date has been mentioned. A person familiar with plan told CNN the decision is expected early next week, and a

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN A plan to offer booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Americans starting in September adds yet another item to the already full list of pandemic duties in front of the US Food and Drug Administration. But boosters are unlikely to slow the agency’s work in considering full approval for Covid-19 vaccines

By Stephanie Mansour, CNN Do you wake up in the middle of the night feeling an ache in your back or stiffness in your shoulders? Or do you have a hard time falling asleep because your mind is racing? Not only is a good night’s sleep important for energy and focus, but it’s especially important

By Travis Caldwell and Dakin Andone, CNN With an alarming rise in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, more Americans have recently made the decision to get vaccinated than in the last six weeks. More than 1 million doses of the vaccine were reported administered Thursday, new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showed, marking

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The pace of Covid-19 hospitalizations is surging across the US, with the rates for children and adults under 50 hitting their highest levels yet, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Every age group under 50 has surpassed its previous record of hospitalizations, which were recorded in

By Jen Christensen, CNN A pair of new studies out Thursday find a “very concerning” rise in the number of climate-related deaths and paint a picture of world where people struggle with regular temperature extremes. One of the studies finds the number of deaths caused by high temperatures increased by 74% globally between 1980 and

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN Strength training, which helps boost your muscle power, certainly benefits those who enjoy participating in sports, but this activity also helps all of us to more easily perform everyday movements — such as getting up out of a chair or mowing the lawn. And that’s far from the only benefit.

By Kristen Rogers, CNN As kids return to in-person schooling every year, parents are usually prepared for their children’s immune systems to reckon with a few weeks of colds and other illnesses. Add to that list this year: a deadly pandemic, with some symptoms that can mimic other illnesses. As children head to school now,

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN It’s the third week of school in Cobb County, Georgia, and many parents are livid with the district’s lax Covid-19 protocols and dangerous misinformation being disseminated by a school board member via his official email account. Some parents, including those with children suffering from asthma and one whose 13-year-old has

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN It’s been a month since England dropped most of its coronavirus restrictions, a move that was welcomed by much of the country’s hard-pressed business sector but criticized by thousands of scientists as a “dangerous and unethical experiment.” In an open letter published in the Lancet medical journal, they argued that a

By Maggie Fox, CNN Jennifer Nuzzo is both a mom and a health expert. Worried about sending her young son to in-person school last year, she settled on one of the few things she could control. She bought a portable air cleaner for her son’s classroom. She’s joining air quality experts who are urging schools