Healthcare

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) recently reported over 400 COVID-19 cases among American and Southwest Airlines employees as well as Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers. Yet, no one seems concerned, since no services were disrupted at either the security checkpoints or with the airlines. Is this a reasonable and appropriate response? 

The doses were withheld pending an F.D.A. review, which has now been completed.

A look at the challenges and prospects for distributing millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in the coming months, with Julie Swann, Allison Distinguished Professor & Department Head of Industrial & Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University, and a member of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

When the federal transportation mask mandate was abruptly halted in April 2020 after a federal judge ruling in Florida, many air travelers rejoiced. As such, you would expect to see few mask wearers on airplanes and in airports. 

The new COVID-19 vaccine from Novavax is safe and effective. Better yet, it’s easy to ship and store, making it ideal for poorer countries that are still under-vaxxed.

The nation is experiencing a COVID-19 tsunami. Yet, people’s behavior suggests that no one is noticing. Are the surge and the behavior related?

The federal and state response to the escalating monkeypox outbreak is lacking access to enough vaccines, testing and treatments to keep up with the virus' spread, infectious disease experts are warning.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – While North Carolina’s COVID-19 state of emergency will end next month, health experts said the pandemic is not over and projected another rise in cases and hospitalizations as the Omicron subvariant BA.5 has become dominant in the United States.

The world is sitting at a cusp: How best to respond to the rising number of cases of the human version of the monkeypox virus. The current international outbreak (B1) has already spread to more than 58 countries with more than 6,000 cases -- with ongoing monitoring of thousands more people with close contact. Monkeypox has been a heightened concern in several countries worldwide, especially Britain, Germany, Spain, and Portugal. So far, this is the largest international outbreak the world has seen.

For the first time since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduced its three-level risk system in March 2022, on June 30 its community level map of Covid-19 cases had the dubious distinction of more counties classified as medium risk or high risk (55%) than those at low risk.