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US sees surge in measles cases as health experts plead for more vaccinations This year’s total tally has now outpaced last year’s numbers, with 64 confirmed cases in 17 states so far, compared with 58 in 2023 The Guardian

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Measles cases surge in the U.S.; health experts plead for more vaccinations

Tue, 2024-03-26 10:00 — mike kraft

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

Mon, 2024-03-25 11:46 — mike kraft

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What Did the US Get Wrong During Covid? We Need to Know In the first year of the pandemic, leaders badly fumbled. We need a nonpartisan investigation into how things went so wrong. F.D. Flam Bloomberg

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Opinion: U.S. needs nonpartisan commission to examaine what wrong in dealing with early stages of COVID pandemic

Fri, 2024-03-22 19:30 — mike kraft

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After years of ransomware attacks, health-care defenses still fail The danger was obvious in 2021, when ransomware gangs struck hospitals already overwhelmed by the covid-19 pandemic. Joseph Menn The Washington Post

Analysis: After years of ransomware attacks, health-care defenses still fail

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:58 — mike kraft

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Health experts plead for unvaxxed Americans to get measles shot as cases rise The US hit last year's total in under 12 weeks, suggesting we're in for a bad time. Beth Mole Ars Technica

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Measles: AMA and CDC health experts plead for unvaxxed Americans to get measles shot as cases rises

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:06 — mike kraft

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'Critical' to catch up on measles vaccinations to stem outbreaks, says WHO Vaccinating children who missed their measles shots during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical, a senior World Health Organization official said on Tuesday, as outbreaks of the infectious disease increase worldwide. Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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Measles: WHO says it is critical to catch up vaccinations to stem current outbreaks

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:00 — mike kraft

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

Mon, 2024-03-18 09:59 — mike kraft

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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

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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

..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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No parent who has seen the children I’ve treated for measles would refuse a vaccine Pediatrician Paul Law fights measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He’s never seen a parent there turn down a vaccine. Torie Bosch STAT

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

Tue, 2024-03-12 10:37 — mike kraft

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