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CWCI: Long COVID Accounts for Three Quarters of California Workers’ Comp COVID Claim Payments
Long COVID claims represented only 4.7 percent of all California workers' comp COVID claims but 82 percent of COVID claim ...
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CDC, FDA Limit Access to COVID Shots for Healthy Adults, Kids, and Pregnant People
The CDC will no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women and healthy children. Updated COVID-19 shots will ...
A new COVID subvariant spreads rapidly as Trump pivots away from vaccines
A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California—heightening the risk of a potential summer wave ...
RFK Jr. says healthy pregnant women don’t need Covid boosters. Science says threat still meaningful
A UCLA professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology says he still sees more bad outcomes in pregnant patients who have ...
RFK Jr. says healthy pregnant women don’t need COVID boosters. What the science says
Top scientists still put pregnant women in a high-risk group who ought to get COVID boosters. Regardless of RFK Jr., the ...
Health expert explains what CDC's new COVID-19 vaccine recommendations mean for you
CDC revised its COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women, potentially affecting vaccine accessibility and insurance coverage.
All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says
U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
CDC removes language that says healthy kids should get COVID shots
That kind of recommendation, known as shared decision-making, still means health insurers must pay for the vaccinations, ...
Biden’s Health Secretary Is Taking On RFK Jr.—and, Maybe, Kamala Harris
Xavier Becerra, the former HHS head vying to succeed Gavin Newsom in the Golden State, tells VF that, with his experience, he ...
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An Ominous Combination: A New COVID Variant and the Waning Will to Fight It
Although it appears not to cause more severe illness, preliminary data demonstrate that the variant exhibits significant ...
Valley fever cases are expected to spike in California. Here’s how locals, hikers and tourists can avoid it
For the second year in a row, California is on track to break records for valley fever cases. Here's how you can avoid the ...
RFK Jr. says healthy pregnant women don’t need Covid boosters. Science says its threat is still meaningful
A UCLA professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology says he still sees more bad outcomes in pregnant patients who have ...