The FDA's panel of independent vaccine experts on Tuesday voted 19 to 2 to recommend new COVID-19 shots that target the omicron variant this fall, when public health officials are expecting a new wave of infections.
Florida has recorded 17,000 unexpected or excess deaths from preventable health issues other than COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. A rise in deaths in the state is another toll from the coronavirus as residents may have put off screenings and surgeries.
(CNN) -- The World Health Organization has stopped short of declaring the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern as a result of an emergency committee meeting.
As of the week ending June 18, BA.4 and BA.5 accounted for about 35% of cases in the United States, according to estimates by the CDC — figures that experts say should rise in the weeks to come.
Billions of dollars in new emergency aid to fight COVID has been stalled in Congress, and Republicans on Capitol Hill have made clear the aid package is all but dead.