Salceda assures workers RITM is here to stay
Albay Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda has allayed apprehensions of workers of the government-owned Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) that there ...
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US says investigating deaths of five children linked to mystery liver disease
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating 109 childhood cases of a mysterious form of hepatitis, including ...
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US can start giving kids 5-11 the Pfizer Covid vaccine: CDC
The United States can now start giving children aged 5-11 the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid vaccine, US health authorities said Tuesday as ...
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US to open land borders to vaccinated travelers Nov.
The United States will open its land borders with Mexico and Canada in early November to non-essential travelers who are ...
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US surpasses 700,000 COVID deaths – report
US fatalities from COVID-19 surpassed 700,000 on Friday, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, a toll roughly equivalent to ...
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CDC overrules panel on vax boosters
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday overruled its own panel of health experts to back Pfizer ...
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CDC: Delta does not cause more severe COVID among kids
US pediatric COVID hospitalizations have surged since Delta became predominant, but a new study that offers a first look at ...
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US High Court ends moratorium on home eviction
The US Supreme Court has blocked the extension of a federal moratorium on evictions, ending a protection granted to millions ...
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Unvaccinated people twice as likely to be reinfected – CDC
Unvaccinated people are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 as the fully vaccinated, a study by ...
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Crisis becoming ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ — US
US health authorities on Friday pleaded with COVID vaccine holdouts to roll up their sleeves and get their shots, as ...
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