About Liz Seegert Liz Seegert is an independent health journalist and AHCJ’s topic leader on aging. She covers older adults, baby boomers, health policy, and social determinants of health, as well as many other health issues. Her bylines include stories for PBS/NextAvenue.org. the American Journal of Nursing, TIME Health, Medscape, Consumer Reports, and Medical Economics,…
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This 12 months’s flu season is anticipated to be longer and extra critical than we have now noticed in recent times. With COVID-19 infections proceeding to unfold, it will be significant as ever to offer protection to ourselves and our family members in opposition to each the flu and COVID-19.
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In a document revealed within the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Document, scientists on the U.S. Facilities for Illness Regulate and Prevention (CDC) supplied the primary real-world proof at the effectiveness of the bivalent booster shot that the CDC and the U.S. Meals and Drug Management (FDA) approved in September. The researchers conclude that the bivalent…
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INDEX UC Davis LIVE: Watch video of Friday’s program Booster shots, on campus, Tuesday and Wednesday Healthy Davis Together’s new testing schedules HDT joins Yolo County to distribute home test kits UC Davis LIVE Watch the Jan. 14 edition of UC Davis Live (above), with guests Aimee Sisson, Yolo County public health officer, and…
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Last week, FDA approved an Emergency Use Authorization for the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna booster doses, following Pfizer booster approval in September Over the past few weeks, between 45 and 55 percent of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in California have been booster doses, with the state continuing to focus efforts in low-income communities OAKLAND…