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Despite concern from some public health officials, COVID-19 is no longer an official public health emergency. As a result, vaccines will be covered by health insurance rather than being free, COVID-19 data tracking will be less strict, and adjustments to telemedicine will remain in place. As…

Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, urged people to treat loneliness as seriously as they would other health issues like obesity and drug use. Loneliness is linked to increased risk of premature death in the US due to elevated anxiety and depression and other health issues like heart attacks. The…

Mayor Eric Williams and his administration are preparing to launch the “Public Health Call Center”, which will be open 24/7 and have doctors available to answer questions from citizens and health-care workers about a wide variety of medical issues, including COVID-19. The pandemic brought about the…

The virus known as the “dog flu” descended from a type of bird flu. While bird flus do not spread easily among humans, there is concern that a virus could establish itself in a mammal species, such as dogs, and then be more easily transmitted to humans. Professor James Wood, head of the veterinary…

The leaked files from the Pentagon were posted in a public Discord channel as a user said “here, have some leaked documents” and posted screenshots. This user is suspected to be Jack Teixeria, who quickly deleted the channels with the screenshots. Images of the documents are still circulating on…

A woman who was infected with H3N8 passed away after falling ill a few weeks prior, and she is the first recorded human death from the bird flu. None of the close contacts of the woman got the disease, and both she and the other two known human cases of the bird flu were exposed to infected…