The new bivalent COVID-19 booster is now approved for children as young as 5 years old, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday. The bivalent booster shot includes one part that protects against the original strain of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and…
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CDC Drops COVID Travel Advisories as Countries Stop Tracking Cases
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dropping its foreign travel advisories for COVID. The agency explained that because so many countries have stopped tracking their COVID cases, it can no longer accurately calculate health risks to travelers….
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Is COVID Winding Down? Here’s What Top Experts Are Saying
We’ve gotten a better understanding of how to protect ourselves against COVID, new Omicron-specific boosters are being rolled out, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dropped COVID-19 quarantine and distancing recommendations, and many people have thrown off…
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New Study Reveals Black Women Are Struggling Financially In Today’s Economy
Source: Brothers91 / Getty Rising inflation and the struggling economy have left Black and Brown women between a rock and a hard place. A new study conducted by the Equal Rights Advocates (ERA) found that women of color are barely…
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5 Days in Quarantine May Not Be Enough, Here’s Why
After testing positive for COVID and spending five days in quarantine (which probably seems like an eternity), you can’t wait to get back to your normal life (while wearing a mask, of course). However, new data suggests that those five…
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Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19, Experiencing “Mild Symptoms”
President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced Thursday. The White House has been taking extra steps to prevent the 79-year-old, who is at risk of severe illness, from contracting COVID as highly transmissible strains have…
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Notable Black Anti-Vaxxers Who Won’t Endorse The COVID-19 Vaccine
Lenox Hill Hospital Chair of Emergency Medicine Yves Duroseau receives the COVID-19 vaccine from Doctor Michelle Chester at Long Island Jewish Medical Center on December 14, 2020, in New Hyde Park on Long Island, New York. | Source: Scott Heins…
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The Rising BA.5 Variant Could Be Especially Dangerous For People Of Color
Source: FG Trade / Getty Don’t take off those masks just yet. COVID-19 appears to be spiking across the United States and a new variant is responsible for the sudden surge. Reuters noted that health officials are encouraging Americans…
Read MoreIs There A New Pandemic About To Be Announced?
You might have heard about this, but let’s run it down. There have been a number of flair-ups with regard to his decline of the world. But there is a rumor that there is ONE new pandemic that is about…
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Barry Harris, an Acclaimed Jazz Pianist and Ambassador of Bebop, Passes Away at 91
Barry Harris, an acclaimed jazz pianist and standard-bearer of bebop throughout his 70+ years career as a performer, passed away on Wednesday at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, New Jersey, NPR reports. He was 91. According to Kira von…
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