Public Health

The first COVID-19 vaccination sites operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency could be running by mid-February, a senior White House official told CBS News Jan. 30. 

The U.S. reported nearly 20,000 more COVID-19 deaths in January than December, the highest number of known virus deaths since the pandemic began, according to data by The COVID Tracking Project. 

An anti-vaccine protest temporarily shut down a COVID-19 public vaccination site at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium Jan. 30, reports the Los Angeles Times.

The Biden administration hopes to start administering COVID-19 vaccines to children by late spring or summer, Anthony Fauci, MD, said during a Jan. 29 White House news briefing.

The first swine flu case of the 2020-21 flu season was reported in Wisconsin during the week ending Jan. 23, according to the CDC's FluView report.

A number of new reports suggest a coronavirus infection can mistakenly produce antibodies that attack the body's own tissues instead of the virus, The New York Times reported Jan. 28. 

The U.S. identified its first two known cases of the South Africa variant of the novel coronavirus in South Carolina, public health officials said Jan. 28. 

Over the last decade, U.S. cigarette sales had fallen significantly, but amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the decline in sales came to a halt, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 28. 

COVID-19 test positivity fell in every U.S. region in the week ending Jan. 16, and nine U.S. regions saw two consecutive weeks of decrease, according to the CDC's latest COVIDView report published Jan. 22. 

The National Institutes of Health and New York City-based NYU Langone Health launched NeuroCOVID, a database meant as a national tool to track COVID-19 related neurological problems, according to a Jan. 26 news release.