Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
How to prepare kids for back to school without fixating on 'learning loss'
Halfpoint/iStock(NEW YORK) -- As students across the country head back to school, a top priority for many educators and parents is how to help students who have experienced "learning loss" during the ...
Aug 20, 2021
Major expanded recall on frozen shrimp sold at Whole Foods, other retailers
iStock/bigtunaonline (NEW YORK) -- Time to take stock of what's in your freezer after a major frozen shrimp producer issued an expanded recall on a range of products due to salmonella concerns. Avanti...
Aug 19, 2021
Over 20,000 Mississippi students under quarantine after 1st week of school
iStock/Vladimir Vladimirov (MISSISSIPPI) -- More than 20,000 students across Mississippi are in quarantine after the first week of in-person classes. Mississippi, which has the lowest vaccination rate...
Aug 19, 2021
Exhausted, stressed, drained: It’s 'déjà vu' for moms as school year begins amid COVID surge
ljubaphoto/iStock(NEW YORK) -- When Tina Sherman, a mom of four sons in Wake County, North Carolina, thinks of sending her children back to school later this month, she can sum up the emotion of it al...
Aug 19, 2021
Nurse takes care of patients even on her days off
iStock/NanoStockk (LAS VEGAS) -- For some patients, it's the little things. Brooke Johns, 40, is an emergency room nurse at Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas. On her days off, she heads back to the...
Aug 18, 2021
How this teacher is tackling mental health as students return from year of remote learning
mixetto/iStock(FREMONT, Calif.) -- When students return to Erin Castillo's classroom Wednesday, their first day of in-person school in over a year, the high school teacher will be paying attention to ...
Aug 18, 2021
Five ways parents can protect infants and toddlers from COVID-19
ArtistGNDphotography/iStock(BALTIMORE) -- With the delta variant surging, and new data indicating young people can spread COVID more readily than previously thought, many parents with infants and todd...
Aug 18, 2021
5 things to know about Biden's plan to roll out COVID boosters this fall
iStock/MarsBars (WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is expected to announce, as soon as this week, a plan to roll out booster shots for all Americans who got Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines more...
Aug 17, 2021
DOJ charges Chicago pharmacist for selling authentic COVID vaccination cards on Ebay
iStock/Viorel Poparcea (CHICAGO) -- The Justice Department has arrested a Chicago pharmacist who allegedly sold 125 real CDC COVID-19 vaccination cards on EBay. According to charging documents, ...
Aug 17, 2021
More kids are getting sick from COVID. Is it delta?
Drazen Zigic/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Throughout much of 2020, parents took comfort in a single silver lining the pandemic: The virus seemed to spare young people, particularly children and toddlers, whose...
Aug 17, 2021