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Omicron Subvariant XBB Jumps to 18% of US COVID Cases

The highly contagious Omicron subvariant XBB jumped to 18% of national prevalence and accounted for more than 50% of COVID-19 cases in the Northeast, coinciding with holiday travel for millions of Americans. In the week ended Dec.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Triangle of Sadness’ star Charlbi Dean, 32, died of rare infection

“Triangle of Sadness” star Charlbi Dean’s cause of death has been revealed, months after the South African actress died suddenly at age 32.

Tribune News Service

Should you go sick to a party? How to navigate travel, family gatherings during tripledemic

MIAMI -- It seems like whenever there’s a party, someone goes home sick.

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Declining US life expectancy fell further in 2021 due to COVID and drug overdoses

If the length of our lives is a good measure of our well-being, the United States is in some trouble.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: What if regulation is unconstitutional?

Is regulation as we know it unconstitutional? It’s not inconceivable that, sometime soon, the U.S. Supreme Court could reach such a conclusion, invalidating much of the vast administrative apparatus created to promote such public goods as clean air, workplace safety and financial stability.

Tribune News Service

Is it COVID, the flu, RSV or just a cold? Here’s what your symptoms could mean

There’s a trio of viruses spreading in the U.S. — COVID-19, the flu and RSV — and some in the medical world are calling it a “tripledemic.”

McClatchy Washington Bureau

HIV outbreak persists as officials push back against containment efforts

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Brooke Parker has spent the past two years combing riverside homeless encampments, abandoned houses, and less traveled roads to help contain a lingering HIV outbreak that has disproportionately affected those who live on society’s margins.

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American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades

A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life expectancy in the U.S. for a second year in a row.

WEKU

Money for war, none for 9/11 responders

"How can we increase the money for defense and not put money in the budget for the first defenders on 9/11?"

Salon

2022 has been a deadly year for eating oysters in Florida

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Those sweet shellfish may be tempting, but eating oysters in Florida has been dangerous this year.

Tribune News Service

Seventh Circuit Rejects Free Speech / Free Exercise Arguments Against Mask Mandate

From Mahwikizi v. CDC, decided Monday by the Seventh Circuit (Judges Frank Easterbrook, Diane Wood & Thomas Kirsch II): Mahwikizi works for a rideshare business. As a Catholic, he practices the "Good Samaritan Principle," which instructs him to help those in need. He says that doing so became difficult when,…

Reason

As virus infections rise, dust off masks to wear in busy public places

Masks reduce the risk of viral transmission from the so-called “tripledemic.”

Chicago Sun-Times

It's not just you. Everyone really is sick this holiday season as the U.S. battles a ‘worst in a decade’ flu and rising COVID cases

The winter COVID surge is only part of the problem, as the U.S. confronts a flu for the record books and a fierce resurgence of RSV, among other infections.

Fortune

Man who threatened to kill CDC head pleads guilty to charges

A Mississippi man who threatened to kill Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has pleaded guilty to making threats in interstate commerce

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HIV outbreak in West Virginia

Political winds in the state blow against efforts to control an expanding HIV outbreak

Roll Call

Supreme Court keeps Title 42 border policy in place for now

More than a dozen Republican-led states asked the Supreme Court on Monday to preserve pandemic-related border restrictions.

The Guardian - US

US public not warned that monkeys imported from Cambodia carried deadly pathogens

Documents reveal that pathogenic agents, zoonotic bacteria and viruses, including one deemed bioterrorism risk, entered US but ‘no indication CDC has been transparent’

WEKU

Updated COVID booster shots reduce the risk of hospitalization, CDC reports

The CDC came out with two studies to detail the bivalent booster's effectiveness against COVID-related emergency department visits and hospitalization.

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Lavender spray laced with deadly bacteria kills five-year-old boy, woman and pet racoon

The pet racoon, which belonged to a four-year-old girl, was found to have walked through the perfume after breaking a bottle of it at their home in Texas

The Guardian - US

US health agency accused of bowing to drug industry with new opioid guidance

Doctors say CDC’s softer guidelines ‘tossing aside’ safety limits put lives at risk as opioid epidemic continues to rage in the country

The Texas Tribune

Federal health order allowing rapid removal of migrants must end Wednesday, court rules

The Biden administration attempted to end Title 42 earlier this year before a federal judge blocked the move. A different federal court has now ordered that the federal health order be lifted.

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Fortune

Changes in sleep, exercise, and diet can put people at risk.

WEKU

Coronavirus FAQ: Is Paxlovid the best treatment? Is it underused in the U.S.?

The drug is the most effective way to cut the risk of severe disease. It's heading to China now. Yet the drug is underused in some places. Why? And are there options if you're not a good candidate?

Axios

America's historically bad flu season may be peaking

Amid ongoing reports of the U.S. getting pummeled by respiratory illness, including a harsher flu season than we've seen in years, new data indicates flu may be peaking this season.

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