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EU and US launch joint task force on global health threats; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / covid, Featured, infectious diseases, News, Newsletter, Non Communicable Diseases, sars-cov-2 / By Nick Parry

Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi The European Union and the United States have launched a new joint health task force to cooperate on cancer, global health threats and related supply chains and infrastructure, officials told a press conference last Wednesday. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/992081?ecd=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=398271FG&impID=5445031&faf=1 The task force was set …

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US extends COVID-19 pandemic status

Leave a Comment / covid, Featured, infectious diseases, News, Newsletter, sars-cov-2 / By chris

The Biden administration extended the Covid-19 pandemic’s status as a public health emergency for another 90 days, preserving measures such as expanded Medicaid and higher payments to hospitals. The decision follows comments President Joe Biden made in September describing the pandemic as over. Some Republican lawmakers said afterward that the administration should wind down its …

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Polio outbreak leads to state of emergency in New York

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Friday over a growing polio outbreak, in an effort to better equip health care providers with tools to curb the spread of the sometimes disabling virus before it takes further hold in the state. www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/nyregion/new-york-polio-state-of-emergency.html? The order allows emergency service workers, midwives and pharmacists to …

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