Health care industry
Another baby formula shipment from Europe to arrive in the U.S. on Wednesday
Empty shelves show a shortage of baby formula at a Target store in San Antonio, Texas, May 10, 2022. Kaylee Greenlee Beal | Reuters FedEx Express has secured a government contract to bring another shipment of infant formula to the U.S. on Wednesday, NBC News reported. The Express plane will fly Nestlé baby formula from Ramstein […]
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Shanghai reopens some public transport, still on high Covid alert
Since March, mainland China has struggled to contain its worst Covid outbreak in two years. Notably, the metropolis of Shanghai, pictured here on May 18, only started this week to begin discussing resumption of normal activity — with a goal of mid-June. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images Shanghai reopened a small part of […]
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‘We’re sorry’ for U.S. baby formula shortage, Abbott CEO Ford says in Washington Post op-ed
The Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, on May 13, 2022. Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty Images Abbott Laboratories CEO Robert Ford apologized Saturday in a new op-ed for his company’s role in a nationwide shortage of baby formula, which this week moved Congress and the Biden administration to take emergency actions to alleviate […]
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Judge rules Covid asylum restrictions must continue on border
Migrants queue outside the office of the National Migration Institute (INM) as they wait for a QR code to register their migratory situation and travel throughout the country, in Tapachula, Mexico, February 2, 2022. Jose Torres | Reuters Pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border must continue, a judge ruled Friday in […]
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World Health Organization confirms 80 cases of monkeypox with outbreaks in 11 countries
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner | CDC via AP The World Health Organization has confirmed […]
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CDC urges older Americans to get Covid booster shots as hospitalizations soar again
Shana Alesi administers a second COVID-19 booster shot to Army veteran Robert Hall at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital on April 01, 2022 in Hines, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week urged older Americans to get a Covid booster shot to increase their protection against the […]
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb says rising monkeypox cases suggest it’s spread ‘pretty wide’
The rising number of monkeypox cases in the U.S. and Europe suggest the virus has already spread widely across communities, but it won’t likely cause a major epidemic like Covid, Pfizer board member and former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday. “Now that there’s been community spread, it may be hard to […]
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Monkeypox is spreading around the world. What is the disease and how dangerous is it?
An image created during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1996 to 1997, shows the arms and torso of a patient with skin lesions due to monkeypox, in this undated image obtained by Reuters on May 18, 2022. CDC/Brian W.J. Mahy/Handout via REUTERS THIS […]
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Health officials confirm first U.S. case of monkeypox virus this year in Massachusetts
Health officer uses a thermal head to detect a monkeypox virus on arriving passengers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang near Jakarta, Indonesia on May 15, 2019. Jepayona Delita | Future Publishing | Getty Images U.S. health officials late Wednesday confirmed a case of the monkeypox virus in Massachusetts, the first to be reported across […]
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CDC panel recommends Pfizer booster shot for kids ages 5 to 11 as Covid cases rise across the U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine experts recommended a Pfizer Covid booster shot for children ages 5 to 11 on Thursday, as infections rise across the country and immunity from the first two doses wanes off. The committee voted 11-1 in favor of a booster for the age group. CDC Director Rochelle […]
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