The CDC has stepped up its monkeypox guidance, urging travelers to take extra precautions including wearing face masks as global cases of the virus surpass 1,000.
The White House laid out the federal government's plans to make the first COVID-19 vaccines available for very young children. COVID-19 vaccinations for kids younger than 5 could start right after the Juneteenth holiday.
Another pandemic seems inevitable. We "live in an age of pandemics," said Dr. Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist and CEO of Pandefense Advisory, an interdisciplinary network of experts engaged in pandemic response.
This COVID "creep" has been easier for hospitals to manage than the steep rise of COVID in the winter. At the time, hospitals canceled surgeries and other procedures just to make room for all the COVID patients.