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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN More adolescents have received Covid-19 vaccinations in the past two weeks — representing about a fifth of all new vaccinations in the United States, data suggest. Public health experts call the increase in vaccinations good, but the cause may be grim. The rise in Covid-19 vaccinations among adolescents parallels an increase

By Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy and Madeline Holcombe, CNN A vast majority of US residents live in an area with high Covid-19 transmission, but hospitalization and death rates are significantly higher in states with the lowest vaccination rates. In the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates, fewer than 41% of their residents have been

By Jen Christensen, CNN The calls and emails about Covid-19 boosters have already started coming in to Dr. William Schaffner’s medical center in Nashville, Tennessee. It started last week, when the the the US Food and Drug Administration and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended an additional dose for certain immunocompromised people who

By Maggie Fox, CNN Biden administration officials say the federal government is thinking about offering boosters to people starting about eight months after they’ve been fully vaccinated. But is it too soon to start talking about boosters for the general public? Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food

By Katia Hetter, CNN With the Biden administration expected to announce that booster doses will be needed for most people who received the Covid-19 vaccine, many people have questions: Are boosters safe? Does the fact that we may need boosters mean that the vaccine isn’t working? And who should get them? To get the answers,

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN Two new studies published Tuesday show White people dominate health care spending across the United States, despite decades of efforts to equalize health care access. The studies, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, show per-person health care spending increased with age for every racial and ethnic group, but

By Naomi Thomas, CNN More than 121,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported in the US in the last week, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. After declining in early summer, child cases have “steadily increased” since the beginning of July. From August 5 to August 12, a total of 121,427 child

By John Duffy, CNN When a young man I work with in my therapy practice headed off to college in 2019, his future looked bright. He made friends, joined a fraternity, and reported to his parents that he was adjusting well, thriving socially and doing well in classes. The reality was much darker. He stopped

By Holly Yan and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Those unvaccinated against Covid-19 aren’t just risking their own health — they’re also jeopardizing medical care for others and fueling a surge that’s forcing more students to quarantine, doctors say. Covid-19 hospitalizations have doubled over the past three weeks, with 83,693 people hospitalized this week, according to data

By Kristen Rogers, CNN Can you count on anyone to listen to you when you need to talk? If so, your brain might be more resilient in the face of any future age- or disease-related changes, according to a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open. Among senior adults, prior studies have associated

By Christine Koh, CNN My mom and I first talked about menstrual cycles last year, at ages 83 and 46, respectively. While sometimes the phrase “better late than never” applies, in this case, it does not. Parents need to have honest conversations about bodies and relationships well before puberty begins. The dread over these conversations

By Madeline Holcombe and Jen Christensen, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday they have submitted initial data to the US Food and Drug Administration to support the use of a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine. The booster dose elicited a significantly higher antibody response against the initial strain of coronavirus and the Delta and Beta

By Sarah Braner, CNN “I was told to go home and rest, that everything would be fine in two weeks. Sadly, those two weeks for me have never come,” said Chimére Smith, 39, one of many Americans fighting long Covid. According to multiple studies, long Covid may affect up to a third of Covid-19 patients.

By Aya Elamroussi, Jamie Gumbrecht and Eric Levenson, CNN The US could soon see more than 200,000 new cases of Covid-19 every day as the Delta variant spreads at a rapid pace, particularly among unvaccinated people, the director of the National Institutes of Health predicted. “I will be surprised if we don’t cross 200,000 cases

By Lisa Drayer, CNN Let me guess: You’re eating clean, enjoying lots of fruits and vegetables, cutting out meat and are much more plant-based. You’ve also banned bread, cookies and cake from the house. There is just one problem: You can’t seem to stay awake and alert during the day. On the surface this lifestyle

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine makers are preparing for a next possible phase of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout: booster doses. The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized third doses of both the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines for certain immunocompromised people: solid organ transplant recipients or “those who are diagnosed with conditions that

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The US remains among nations with the highest rate of new Covid-19 cases, driven mostly by a surge in the South, where many states are lagging in getting people vaccinated against the coronavirus. “This is starting to look really ominous in the South. … If you look at rates of transmission

By Lisa Drayer, CNN Are you struggling with a midafternoon energy slump lately? Or maybe it’s during a midmorning meeting or before dinner prep when you feel you need a push. We have all experienced times when we feel we are dragging, both physically and emotionally. The good news is, there are lots of ways

By Virginia Langmaid Florida reported a new record number of Covid-19 cases Friday — more over the past week than any other seven-day period during the pandemic. Data published Friday by the state health department showed 151,415 new Covid-19 cases over the past week, for an average of 21,630 cases each day. The previous record

By Rachel Ramirez and Jen Christensen, CNN As the coronavirus surges again in the United States, scientists have found another disaster is playing a key role in the number of people who contract severe Covid-19 cases and how many die: wildfires. A new study published in the journal Science Advances found that increases in fine

By Maggie Fox and Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously on Friday to recommend an extra dose of Covid-19 vaccine for some immunocompromised people, and the CDC director signed off on the recommendation almost immediately. The US Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authorization

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A never-ending pandemic: Death, dying, sickness, masks, school is back, but is it safe? Is it a cold or Covid? Job losses, looming evictions, political fur flying — the types of stressors we are facing just keep rising. Have you pulled all your hair out yet? Or maybe it’s worse —

By Deidre McPhillips and Naomi Thomas, CNN Covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States have been growing for more than a month, and at the current pace — more than 2,500 patients added each day over the past week, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services — the US will surpass

By Travis Caldwell, CNN As experts race to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 by encouraging vaccinations and mask wearing, hospital systems in a handful of states are now straining to keep up with the surge. Eight states, many of which have lagged the national average for vaccinations, have Covid-19 patients that account for at least

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration authorized an additional Covid-19 vaccine dose for certain immunocompromised people on Thursday. The FDA amended the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines to allow for an additional dose for certain people with compromised immune systems. That group includes “specifically, solid organ

Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine protects people for at least six months and likely longer — even against new variants, researchers reported Thursday. Protection against the Delta variant, now dominant across the US, barely waned, the National Institutes of Health-led team found. The team will continue to look for evidence of protection beyond six months. “High levels

By Jen Christensen, CNN As coronavirus case numbers spike, the US has seen a 1,200% increase in orders for monoclonal antibody treatments in the past month, the US Health and Human Services Department told CNN Thursday. About 75% of the orders are coming from regions of the US that have low vaccination rates. HHS said

By Gregory Lemos As the Delta variant drives a surge of Covid-19 cases in Florida, a rapid-response unit will be deployed to administer monoclonal antibody treatments to residents infected with the virus, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday. “This is the most effective treatment that we’ve yet encountered for people who are infected with Covid-19,” DeSantis

By Jen Christensen, CNN Dr. Bud Weidermann runs one of the US pediatric trial sites for a Covid-19 vaccine and the question coming from parents now isn’t about the vaccine itself, but rather, what exactly is taking so long? Eager parents want to vaccinate young children, and they want to do it now — but

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent In most cases, a “breakthrough” means a sudden, dramatic or important discovery. With Covid-19, however, the expression has been used to describe an infection that “broke” through the protective immunity of the vaccine — and this is sometimes misinterpreted as a sign the vaccine is not working.