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A look at how generation Z started charities duriung the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mon, 2024-03-25 11:46 — mike kraft

Stuck at home during COVID-19, Gen Z started charities Nothing has spurred the entrepreneurial spirit of Gen Z quite like the COVID-19 pandemic and that extends to launching nonprofits. AP News

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The US is settling into a new approach to respiratory virus season

Fri, 2024-03-22 10:05 — mike kraft

After four years with Covid-19, the US is settling into a new approach to respiratory virus season | CNN With the arrival of spring, the United States is easing out of respiratory virus season, a familiar pattern that has been challenged by Covid-19 for the past four years. Deidre McPhillips CNN

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Experts say that focused planning and forecasting efforts helped avoid some of the worst-case scenarios. But there was still a significant number of severe outcomes, and there are still key areas of improvement – especially around vaccination.

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How the Covid pandemic has affected every UK generation

Thu, 2024-03-21 11:29 — mike kraft

Young and old: how the Covid pandemic has affected every UK generation From children behind on milestones to less active older people, broader effects are being felt four years after the initial outbreak The Guardian

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Analysis: Backlash to COVID countermeasures could leave the U.S. less ready for a future pandemic.

Mon, 2024-03-18 09:59 — mike kraft

COVID backlash could leave the U.S. less ready for the next pandemic Despite remarkable scientific advances, key weaknesses in the country's COVID response have only become more glaring. Caitlin Owens Axios

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Analysis: Overview of how COVID both changed America and then faded into background

Thu, 2024-03-14 10:06 — mike kraft

Analysis: 4 years, 1.2 million lives and trillions of dollars later, a rematch | CNN Politics Americans may feel like they’re reliving 2020, with a general election rematch set for 2024. But while the politicians’ faces are the same, life is much different. Zachary B. Wolf CNN

..it’s equally remarkable, precisely four years later, how Covid-19 has both changed American life and also faded to the background.

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Masks work, telehealth is here to stay — and other lessons learned since the Covid pandemic started 4 years ago

Tue, 2024-03-12 10:26 — mike kraft

Masks work, telehealth is here to stay — and other health lessons we've learned since the pandemic started 4 years ago It’s been four years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Here are six important lessons we’ve learned. Yahoo Life

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Delays in kids getting vaccine and Trump's vaccine rhetoric causes concern

Mon, 2024-03-11 17:53 — mike kraft

More parents are delaying their kids' vaccines, and it's alarming pediatricians More parents are choosing to delay childhood vaccinations, such as the MMR vaccine. Doctors worry toddlers remain vulnerable as measles spreads. Yahoo News

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Fourth anniversary of WHO declaring COVID a pandemic--two looks at the aftermath

Mon, 2024-03-11 10:51 — mike kraft

Four years on, the COVID-19 pandemic has a long tail of grief Researchers are studying the magnitude and impact that grief from the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will have for years to come. Aimee Cunningham Science News

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Americans' concern about COVID reaches record low across political spectrum -- Survey

Thu, 2024-03-07 19:05 — mike kraft

Concern about COVID reaches record low across political spectrum: Survey Concern about the health threat posed by COVID-19 has reached a record low across the political spectrum, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. Twenty percent of all Americans in… tsuter The Hill

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U.S. CDC's statements on COVID guidance and vaccine effectiveness.

Tue, 2024-03-05 11:13 — mike kraft

CDC'S releases on COVDID updates and Vaccine Effectiveness

...A new CDC report finds that the updated (2023-2024) COVID-19 vaccines cut the risk in half for visiting the emergency department, urgent care, or being hospitalized with COVID-19 for most people.

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