Health experts urge the public to take flu shot to head off ‘twindemic’
Doctors warn that this flu season could be particularly severe, renewing fears of a potential “twindemic” in which the spread of that virus and COVID-19 collide.
Doctors warn that this flu season could be particularly severe, renewing fears of a potential “twindemic” in which the spread of that virus and COVID-19 collide.
The Biden administration’s COVID-19 booster shot campaign is off to a promising start, with about 1 million Americans signed up to receive a third Pfizer dose at pharmacies in the coming weeks, and adverse reactions to booster shots are rare, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Tuesday.
URBANA, Illinois -- The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides weekly reports on breakthrough infections leading to hospitalizations and deaths. However, similar data on infections amongst previously infected people are needed to assess the road to the virus becoming endemic -- present in the population but manageable due to widespread immunity.
The quickly approaching flu season could be one of the worst Arkansas has experienced in several years because people have lower immunity to the virus after an almost nonexistent influenza outbreak last fall and winter, doctors and public health officials are warning.
A few hundred yards south of the fishing boat docks at the Port of New Bedford in southeastern Massachusetts, workers will soon start offloading gigantic turbine components onto a wide expanse of gravel. Local trawlers and lobster boats will find themselves sharing their waterways with huge vessels hefting cranes and massive hydraulic jacks. And on an approximately 100-square mile patch of open sea that fishermen once traversed with ease, 62 of the world’s largest wind turbines will rise one by one over the ocean waves.
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