The CDC and Americorps have created a program to reinforce the nation's public health workforce, the federal agencies said Sept. 8.
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Global progress was being made against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria before the pandemic. Now, much of that progress has been set back, according to a Sept. 8 report from the Global Fund.
Louisiana hospitals continue to battle the effects of Hurricane Ida, which made landfall in the state Aug. 29 and left damage at healthcare facilities.
The U.S. has reported more than 650,000 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began and broke several COVID-19 case records this week as infections continue to surge.
The state of California is investing $6 billion into its Medi-Cal program to target community issues that traditionally fall under social services.
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Weekly COVID-19 hospitalization rate among children in the U.S. rose rapidly from late June to mid-August, with the risk of hospitalization nearly 10 times higher among unvaccinated children, according to the CDC's Sept. 3 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Power outages caused by Hurricane Ida led many people in Louisiana to turn to potentially unsafe generators, and on Sept. 6, the state reported 141 emergency department visits for carbon monoxide poisoning in the past week.
The mu COVID-19 variant, deemed a variant of concern by the World Health Organization Aug. 30, has been detected in 167 people in Los Angeles, according to a Sept. 6 report from The Los Angeles Times.
Despite CDC officials recommending unvaccinated Americans stay home, data from the Transportation Security Administration shows similar Labor Day travel numbers this year compared to two years ago.
Global warming is the greatest threat to public health, and world leaders cannot wait for the COVID-19 pandemic to end before they address it, the editors of more than 230 medical journals said in a joint statement Sept. 5.