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• Biden Invests $2.1 Billion in Infection Control The Biden administration today announced an investment of $2.1 billion to improve infection prevention and control for COVID-19 and future infectious diseases, the largest allocation of its kind in American history.
  WebMD Health News, September 17, 2021
• Alaska Sets Record for Daily COVID Cases "Our hospitals have been and continue to be incredibly stressed," Anne Zink, MD, the state's chief medical officer, said on a conference call, according to The Associated Press.
  WebMD Health News, September 17, 2021
• Cuba Starts Vaccinating Kids as Young as 2 The pediatric vaccinations started this week, making Cuba one of the first countries in the world to vaccinate children so young.
  WebMD Health News, September 17, 2021
• Most Americans Say COVID-19 Rules Aid Public Health: Poll In the Pew Research Center poll released this week, 62% of respondents said the restrictions have been worth the cost, compared to 37% who say the restrictions were not.
  WebMD Health News, September 17, 2021
• Southwest Airlines Offers Extra Pay to Workers Who Get Vaccinated Southwest is the latest airline to offer financial incentives to get more employees vaccinated against COVID-19.
  WebMD Health News, September 17, 2021
• US Gymnasts Testify About Sexual Abuse by Larry Nassar They expressed frustration while recounting traumatic and graphic details during a Senate hearing on the FBI's mishandling of the investigation into former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's actions.
  WebMD Health News, September 17, 2021
• Trinidad Health Minister Calls Nicki Minaj's COVID Vax Claim False Terrence Deyalsingh, the health minister for Trinidad and Tobago, said her story was inaccurate and called it a waste of time.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• Pope Urges COVID-19 Vaccines, Calling Them Humanity's Friends '[Vaccine hesitancy] is a bit strange because humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines,' Pope Francis told reporters.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• Realigned US HIV Panel Works to Rebuild Community Bridges Of the 20 members of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, 10 are Black Americans, reflecting the disproportionate impact HIV has had on Black communities.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• How Black Women Have Fought the HIV Epidemic for Decades It was people like Rashidah Abdul-Khabeer, PhD, a Black Muslim nurse in a headscarf who spent the early 1980s going to bars for gay Black men, teaching them to put condoms on with their teeth.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• Antivaxxers Gargling With the Antiseptic Betadine The idea that gargling with the common antiseptic Betadine will prevent COVID-19 is finding a home in corners of social media.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• Army Sets Deadlines for Soldiers to Be Vaccinated Soldiers who don't get vaccinated will be counseled by their superiors and could face administrative or nonjudicial punishment.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• How Plant-Based 'Meat' May Help You and Save the Environment The explosive popularity of plant-based eating is a win-win, achieving the best health results for our bodies and the environment, according to experts, corporations, and plant lovers.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• Alert As Opioid Deaths Climb, Human Trials Begin for Vaccine Researchers are studying a possible bridge to successful recovery: A vaccine that could blunt the drugs' ability to cause harm.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• Major Study Will Investigate Long-Haul COVID-19 The National Institutes of Health has launched an ambitious study to unravel the mysteries of lingering COVID-19 symptoms, which are sometimes referred to as long-haul COVID-19.
  WebMD Health News, September 16, 2021
• New York Vaccine Mandates Paused for Teachers, Health Workers Two judges issued orders on Tuesday to block New York officials from enforcing vaccine requirements for teachers and healthcare workers.
  WebMD Health News, September 15, 2021
• Survey: 1 in 7 Dropped Friends Over COVID-19 Vaccine Views The survey of 1000 Americans examined why people have ended friendships throughout the pandemic. Overall, about 16% of people had nixed three friendships since March 2020.
  WebMD Health News, September 15, 2021
• 1 in 500 Americans Has Died of COVID-19 As of Tuesday, nearly 664,000 people in the US have died from COVID, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The nation has also reported more COVID-19 cases in 2021 than in 2020.
  WebMD Health News, September 15, 2021
• Plant-Based Diets Gain Steam, Major Companies Getting on Board "In 2020, 57% of all US households purchased plant-based foods (that's over 71 million households), up from 53% in 2019," the association says.
  WebMD Health News, September 15, 2021
• Jeff Bridges Says COVID Made Cancer 'Look Like A Piece of Cake' Actor Jeff Bridges, 71, said Monday that his lymphoma is in remission and that he is feeling better after contracting COVID-19. He was hospitalized for 5 weeks.
  WebMD Health News, September 14, 2021