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Coronavirus
Pediatric Emergency Department Visits Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, January 2019–January 2022
This report describes how overall pediatric emergency department visits decreased in 2020, 2021, and January 2022 compared with 2019 but COVID-19 visits predominated.
Pediatric Emergency Department Visits Associated with Mental Health Conditions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, January 2019–January 2022
This report describes increases in emergency department visits for mental health conditions among adolescent females in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
COVID-19 in Latin America
How can Latin America recover from the COVID-19 pandemic?
Mental health after covid-19
The risks are clear, it’s now time to learn and respond A clear picture has emerged of the mental health impacts of the early waves of the covid-19 pandemic in England—when hospital ...
Covid-19: Rethink end to free Covid tests, Naomi Long urges
People must be financially supported to test and self-isolate, Northern Ireland's justice minister says.
JCVI advises a spring COVID-19 vaccine dose for the most vulnerable
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised an additional spring booster dose for the most vulnerable individuals in the population.
Covid-19: Mask mandates fall across US against public health advice
Indoor mask mandates are being abandoned in jurisdictions across the United States as politicians grappling with pandemic fatigue seek to restore a sense of normalcy, despite warnings from ...
Covid:19: Ireland's National Public Health Emergency Team could be stood down
Top doctor advises it is time to end the work of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) .