West Virginia legislature passes bill weakening one of the country’s strictest child vaccination laws

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West Virginia, with some of the lowest life expectancy rates in the U.S. and a quarter of all children living in poverty, is one of only two states, along with California, that don’t permit nonmedical exemptions to vaccinations as a condition for school entry.

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Opinion: No parent who has seen the children I’ve treated for measles would refuse a vaccine

CDC team to help Chicago responsed to measles outbreak

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

SARS-CoV-2 RNA can persist in blood, tissue, may play role in long COVID --research

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

Extensive study shows that vaccines lower the risk of long COVID for kids

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The researchers estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) against long COVID in children aged 5 to 17 years. Though severe COVID-19 cases are less common in children than in adults, persistent symptoms in children do occur.

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Medicare will make loans to health providers affected by a major cyber attack

COVID-19 patients who could benefit from Paxlovid find price shock

China to increase number of response teams for new infectious diseases

China to increase number of response teams for new infectious diseases

SHANGHAI, March 11 (Reuters) - China will increase the number of specialised teams tasked with responding to future infectious disease outbreaks by five to 25, its top health official has said.
The country will also improve early warning and relevant regulatory or legal systems, according to Wang Hesheng, a director at the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration.
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US respiratory virus levels continue to ebb --except for the flu

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

UnitedHealth could take months for full recovery from cyberattack

Overview of COVID isolation guidelines, end of free tests and new fall vaccine

Reasons why female health care workers suffer high rate of burnout--study

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