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COVID hospitalizations have risen for 2 months straight as new booster shots expected this week
Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- COVID hospitalizations have risen nearly 9% in the most recent week, marking the eighth consecutive week of inc...
Sep 12, 2023
Women, doctors announce legal action against abortion bans in 3 states
ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Women in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee filed legal actions against their states over abortion bans, saying they were denied abortions despite having dangerous...
Sep 12, 2023
CDC calls Florida's advice against new COVID booster 'dangerous'
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is responding after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's surgeon general advised agai...
Sep 12, 2023
COVID numbers are rising again, but Fauci not predicting another 'tsunami of hospitalizations and deaths'
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Amid a rise in COVID-19 infections -- as seen by first lady Jill Biden's recent bout with the virus -- public health experts are tracking the numbers but aren't "predictin...
Sep 10, 2023
What are the latest COVID protocols amid rising cases and hospitalizations?
Thanasis/Getty Images/STOCK(NEW YORK) -- As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise across the United States, many Americans may be wondering how to best keep themselves and their loved ones saf...
Sep 09, 2023
Florida Supreme Court hears arguments in challenge to 15-week abortion ban
ftwitty/Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- The Florida state Supreme Court heard arguments Friday morning in a legal challenge seeking to throw out the state's 15-week abortion ban, claiming it violat...
Sep 08, 2023
USDA recalls over 245K pounds of frozen chicken strip products
US Department of Agriculture(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that ConAgra Brands Inc. is recalling approximately 245,366 pounds of frozen chicken strip products due to ...
Sep 07, 2023
CDC warns RSV cases are rising in young children in the Southeastern US
Science Photo Library - CDC/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned this week that cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, are rising among young childr...
Sep 07, 2023
Why you may want to think twice before throwing out those old at-home COVID tests
SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With COVID-19 cases rising across the country, you may be inclined to pull out one of those leftover at-home rapid tests received months ago from the Biden ...
Sep 07, 2023
New data shows increase in abortions in states near bans compared to 2020 data
The Good Brigade/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Newly released data from the Guttmacher Institute shows a sharp increase in the first six months of 2023 in estimated abortions performed in states bordering...
Sep 07, 2023