Here’s why a 6-year-old deadly measles outbreak in Samoa came up in the RFK Jr. hearing
In 2019, a devastating measles outbreak erupted in Samoa. Eighty-three people, most of them children, died. Another 5,000 ...
Hawaii Governor, a Doctor, Blames Kennedy for Measles Deaths in Samoa
Gov. Josh Green battled a measles outbreak that killed 83 people, mostly children. President Trump wants Robert F. Kennedy, ...
Samoa’s government embroiled in political turmoil
The instability in Samoa reflects growing turmoil across the Pacific amid social unrest and the US-led war drive aimed at ...
Samoa was facing a measles vaccine crisis. Then RFK Jr. swooped in.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to use Samoa’s measles vaccine pause as a "natural ...
USA Today14d
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen praises Biden's pandemic response in farewell address
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday mounted a robust defense of the Biden administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that its stimulus spending led to robust ...
The Herald-Dispatch14d
Huntington metro area employment tops prepandemic level
Employment in the Huntington-Ashland metro area exceeds levels seen when the COVID-19 pandemic began five years ago — the third-best growth rate in the region covered by the Federal Reserve ...
Savannah Morning News15d
Vaccination in the post-COVID era: Information, disinformation, and the value of science
When I got home, I reminded my wife to make sure her 94-year-old mother had her flu and COVID-19 vaccines up to date ... In 2019, he visited Samoa and spread disinformation about measles ...
BBC15d
Large UK-wide pandemic preparedness tests planned this year
The plans come in response to the first set of recommendations made by the Covid-19 Inquiry - the ongoing public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic. The chair of the inquiry, Baroness ...
Pharmaceutical Technology15d
InflaRx wins EU approval for Gohibic in Covid-19-induced ARDS
While the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 pandemic over in May 2023, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is still in global circulation. Data from England’s National Health Service (NHS) in mid ...
The Daily Reflector15d
Meet the Americans who still take COVID-19 precautions seriously
People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic By DEVNA BOSE and CARLA K. JOHNSON - Associated Press Jan 16, 2025 ...
Marietta Daily Journal15d
Research points to COVID-19's 'long tail' on school graduation rates
The majority of states, 26, saw declines in high school graduation rates following the pandemic, new research shows. In 2020, for example, 10 states had graduation rates of 90% or higher, but only ...
Delta County Independent15d
LETTER: Response to Dec. 12 opinion piece
It’s important to note there were not one, but two official pandemic reports released by Congress ... Finally, it is an indisputable and irrefutable fact that COVID-19 killed over one million American ...