U.S. will require airline passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid
The Biden administration will require airline passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid before entering the U.S., federal health officials said on Wednesday. The testing requirements come as China battles a major outbreak of the virus after easing its stringent zero-Covid policy in the wake of social unrest earlier this year. The U.S. has limited information on the situation in China, the officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also expanding its program that monitors travelers for new Covid variants to include airports in Los Angeles and Seattle. The surveillance program will now include seven airports and cover about 500 weekly flights, including 290 flights from China and the surrounding area.
cnbc.comOhio boy, 12, dies trying TikTok challenge, family says
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A 12-year-old boy from Richmond Heights died Tuesday after trying a dangerous game from social media that has gone viral, his family says. Davis called police before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday when her sons FaceTimed her after finding the 12-year-old unresponsive in his bedroom. Richmond Heights paramedics took Tristan to Hillcrest Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Davis said her son died by strangulation and does not think her son was suicidal, but rather a victim from a dangerous trend circulating online. “On behalf of the City of Richmond Heights, we express our condolences to the family and our community on this tragic situation,” Wetzel said.
mlive.comFlu vaccination guidelines have changed this year
For most people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a simple message regarding flu vaccines - get one. People ages 6 to 64 are advised to use any licensed, age-appropriate influenza vaccine. The options include inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV), recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV), or live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), with no preference for any one version over the other. Those vaccines are Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent vaccine, Flublok Quadrivalent recombinant flu vaccine and Fluad Quadrivalent adjuvanted flu vaccine. If your child previously got two doses of flu vaccine, they only need one dose this season.
mlive.comUS agency softens opioid prescribing guidelines for doctors
The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention new recommendations are an update to 2016 guidelines that added momentum to a decline in opioid painkiller prescriptions. Opioids painkillers can be addictive — even when used under doctors’ orders — and were identified as a big reason for a rise in U.S. drug overdoses that began more than two decades ago.
news.yahoo.comRespiratory virus is spreading quickly among children: Here’s what to know
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not record hospitalizations or deaths caused by the respiratory syncytial virus, a common cold-like virus, but the CDC says cases are on the rise across the U.S. Many children’s hospitals have spoken to CNN, telling the news outlet they are overwhelmed with cases of kids. At this time of the year, it’s typically unusual for such a surge in RSV. Though the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services does not give a reason for the surge in hospitalizations, CNN reported. Though if your respiratory droplets got on a doorknob or other objects it can also spread that way.
mlive.comUS boosts monkeypox testing, 142 cases confirmed
The Biden administration has started shipping testing kits for monkeypox to commercial laboratories, in a bid to speed diagnostic tests for suspected infections for the virus that has already infected at least 142 people in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending tests to commercial labs, including Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and Sonic Healthcare, which it said would significant expand the nation’s health system’s capacity to...