Lois M. Collins, Deseret News | Posted Dec. 29 - 7:13 a.m.
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Call it the expected rebound that didn't happen. After the pandemic, when youths could gather again, experts thought adolescent drug use would increase, since it had dropped when they were more isolated.
Reuters | Updated Nov. 27 - 7:30 a.m.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose Stanford academic and COVID policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health, the country's top public funder of medical research with a budget of some $47.3 billion
Christy Santhosh, Reuters | Posted Nov. 21 - 7:47 a.m.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday it expects to see an increase in levels of COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus in the country in the coming weeks, as is usual during the holiday season.
Devi Shastri, Associated Press | Posted Nov. 2 - 5:24 p.m.
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A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.
Bhanvi Satija and Leroy Leo, Reuters | Posted Oct. 16 - 11:12 a.m.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put Novavax's trial of an experimental COVID-flu vaccine combination on hold after one person who received the shot reported nerve damage, the company said Wednesday.
Amanda Seitz, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 26 - 12:28 p.m.
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Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, that will be sent straight to their homes. The U.S. government reopened the program on Thursday.
Emily Ashcraft, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 18 - 5:02 p.m.
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The new COVID-19 vaccine is now available at clinics, pharmacies and doctor's offices. A doctor with University of Utah Health says it will help prevent serious illness from new COVID-19 variants in an expected winter surge.
Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News | Posted Sept. 16 - 7:34 p.m.
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After the death of a neighbor from COVID-19, an Austrian woman has been fined and given a suspended sentence for grossly negligent homicide, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, The Associated Press reported.
Lois M. Collins, Deseret News | Posted Sept. 13 - 8:05 a.m.
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When the world shut down in the pandemic, adolescent brains started aging faster — especially the brains of adolescent girls, according to researchers.
Lois M. Collins, Deseret News | Posted Sept. 4 - 7:22 a.m.
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Updated COVID-19 vaccines are already showing up on some pharmacy and health provider shelves. But a key program that paid for the vaccines when people lacked coverage is out of money. So those who are under-insured or uninsured could pay up to $200 for the booster.
Cheyanne Mumphrey, Associated Press | Posted Aug. 25 - 9:41 a.m.
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School attendance tanked during the pandemic and has only started to recover. Parents are struggling to decide when it's ok to send a child to school while sick.
Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press | Posted Aug. 23 - 12:33 p.m.
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Updated COVID-19 vaccines are on their way. The FDA approved new shots from Pfizer and Moderna on Thursday for adults and children as young as 6 months.
Lois M. Collins, Deseret News | Posted Aug. 23 - 9:32 a.m.
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Millions of children are suffering from long COVID, the lingering post-viral illness that follows SARS-CoV-2 infection and can last weeks, months or even years.
Lois M. Collins, Deseret News | Posted July 20 - 12:27 p.m.
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A new COVID-19 variant is leading an increase in cases nationwide, and President Joe Biden is among those who tested positive. Most of the cases being seen in emergency departments are a variant known as KP.3 and a new vaccine is expected.