Tag: c.d.c.
A Half-Million Americans May Have Tick-Linked Meat Allergy, C.D.C. Says
In total, more than 90,000 people received positive tests over that time period, and the number of people with positive tests increased annually, from about 13,000 in 2017 to nearly 19,000 in 2021. Roughly 20,000 cases had been identified in an earlier study, yielding a total of 110,000 suspected cases from 2010 to 2022.
The rising number of cases identified annually could stem from increasing awareness, an increase in the true prevalence of the syndrome or a combination of both.
What Happened to Joe Biden’s “Summer of Freedom” from the Pandemic?
Even in the compressed historical arc of the pandemic, July 1st wasn’t so long ago. The mood that morning, when President Biden’s COVID-response coördinator, Jeff Zients, opened the White House’s weekly pandemic briefing, was unusually optimistic. “Going into the Fourth of July holiday weekend,” he said, “Americans have good reason to celebrate.” Zients, a wealthy businessman in his mid-fifties, had built a reputation within the Democratic Party for fixing impossible operational problems. At the dais in the White House