A U.S. government scientist who oversees the team responsible for collecting data on COVID-19 and RSV hospitalizations used to shape national vaccine policy has resigned, citing concerns over how such data would be used by the Trump administration.
As summer and peak travel season begins, a highly transmissible new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or "Nimbus," is spreading in the United States. The mutated omicron subvariant, which caused surges in parts of Asia this spring, now accounts for more than one-third of cases in the U.S., new data show. ...
Although NB.1.8.1 is causing a rapidly increasing proportion of cases in the U.S., COVID trends — including test positivity and hospitalizations — remain stable. As of June 6, the level of COVID viral activity in wastewater is “low” nationally, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
JOHANNESBURG, June 13 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's cuts to HIV/AIDS programmes will further derail an already faltering plan to end the disease as a public health threat by 2030, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said on Friday.
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