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By Jen Christensen, CNN When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that had tested postiive for Covid-19, his office shared that he was treated with a therapy not yet approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, but one of the few shown to be effective against the virus: monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies such as

By Maggie Fox, CNN It sounds confusing — federal health officials say the Covid-19 vaccines are working well, providing more than 90% protection against severe disease and death. They’re keeping people out of the hospitals. Yet they also say studies are showing that even vaccinated people are more likely to become infected now, so they

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN US health officials and medical experts announced in a joint statement on Wednesday that booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine will be offered this fall, subject to authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration and sign off from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We are prepared to offer

By Matt Villano, CNN As we struggle through month after month of the pandemic, it can be difficult to keep a positive attitude about the present and the future. Even in a pandemic, positive psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Boardman suggests the best approach might be to build strength and positivity from within. In her new book,

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN More adolescents have received Covid-19 vaccinations in the past two weeks — representing about a fifth of all new vaccinations in the United States, data suggest. Public health experts call the increase in vaccinations good, but the cause may be grim. The rise in Covid-19 vaccinations among adolescents parallels an increase

By Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy and Madeline Holcombe, CNN A vast majority of US residents live in an area with high Covid-19 transmission, but hospitalization and death rates are significantly higher in states with the lowest vaccination rates. In the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates, fewer than 41% of their residents have been

By Holly Yan and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Those unvaccinated against Covid-19 aren’t just risking their own health — they’re also jeopardizing medical care for others and fueling a surge that’s forcing more students to quarantine, doctors say. Covid-19 hospitalizations have doubled over the past three weeks, with 83,693 people hospitalized this week, according to data

By Jen Christensen, CNN The calls and emails about Covid-19 boosters have already started coming in to Dr. William Schaffner’s medical center in Nashville, Tennessee. It started last week, when the US Food and Drug Administration and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended an additional dose for certain immunocompromised people who had been

By Maggie Fox, CNN Biden administration officials say the federal government is thinking about offering boosters to people starting about eight months after they’ve been fully vaccinated. But is it too soon to start talking about boosters for the general public? Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food

By Katia Hetter, CNN With the Biden administration expected to announce that booster doses will be needed for most people who received the Covid-19 vaccine, many people have questions: Are boosters safe? Does the fact that we may need boosters mean that the vaccine isn’t working? And who should get them? To get the answers,

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN Two new studies published Tuesday show White people dominate health care spending across the United States, despite decades of efforts to equalize health care access. The studies, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, show per-person health care spending increased with age for every racial and ethnic group, but

By Naomi Thomas, CNN More than 121,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported in the US in the last week, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. After declining in early summer, child cases have “steadily increased” since the beginning of July. From August 5 to August 12, a total of 121,427 child

By John Duffy, CNN When a young man I work with in my therapy practice headed off to college in 2019, his future looked bright. He made friends, joined a fraternity, and reported to his parents that he was adjusting well, thriving socially and doing well in classes. The reality was much darker. He stopped