WASHINGTON — With many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations already rolling up their sleeves for a booster shot, millions of others who received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine wait anxiously to learn when it's their turn. Federal regulators begin tackling that question this week. Today and Friday, the Food and Drug Administration convenes [...]
NEW YORK — One in three nursing homes has fewer nurses and aides than before the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the truth of a profit-driven industry with too few caring for society's most vulnerable. Even before the coronavirus began sweeping through facilities, most homes kept staffing at levels below what many experts see as adequate. Now, [...]
For months, Maria Cristina was hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Her fears came from social media, where she heard ample amounts of misinformation about what was in the vaccine and what it could do to her. The 35-year-old Guatemalan immigrant was confused until the day she called the local Latino Community Center in Pittsburgh [...]
A Columbus-based canine security firm last week announced the acquisition of an Alabama-based canine services firm to help meet the local company’s needs in working with the government of France in dog-based COVID-19 detection. Officials at Priority One Canine, or P1K9 — a concept that was launched on Shark Tank in 2014 —said the acquisition [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — More than a year after health-care workers on the front lines against COVID-19 were saluted as heroes with nightly clapping from windows and balconies, some are being issued panic buttons in case of assault and ditching their scrubs before going out in public for fear of harassment. Across the country, doctors [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of clinics pushing unproven stem cell procedures caught a big break from the U.S. government in 2017: They would have three years to show that their questionable treatments were safe and worked before regulators started cracking down. But when the Food and Drug Administration's grace period expired in late May — [...]
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — As her beloved grandmother's health declined, Lauren Pfenning's family insisted that she get a COVID-19 vaccine before paying her a final visit. She spent over a week researching vaccines on the internet and anguished over the decision during and after 12-hour shifts at her job hauling coal in an open-pit mine [...]
While there has been a decline in births during the pandemic, a new report released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau suggests the drop may have turned a corner last March as births started rebounding. The decline in births was most noticeable at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021. In December 2020, births [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Within his first week back at school after a year and a half, 7-year-old Ben Medlin was exposed to a classmate with COVID-19, and he was sent home, along with 7,000 other students in the district, for 14 days of quarantine. Not much learning went on in Ben's home. On some [...]
An estimated 2,600 Los Angeles Police Department employees are citing religious objections to try to get out of the required COVID-19 vaccination. In Washington state, thousands of state workers are seeking similar exemptions. And in Arkansas, a hospital has been swamped with so many such requests from employees that it is apparently calling their bluff. [...]