A majority of voters trust the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more than the Trump administration when it comes to accurately reporting coronavirus data, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. Seventy-seven percent of registered voters in the July 17-20 survey said they trust the CDC more to accurately report data on COVID-19. By contrast, […]
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Drug Resistant Super Bacteria Kills Nevada Woman
Public health officials from Nevada are reporting on a case of a woman who died in Reno in September from an incurable infection. Testing showed the superbug that had spread throughout her system could fend off 26 different antibiotics. “It was tested against everything that’s available in the United States … and was not effective,” […]
Sexually Transmitted Diseases at Record Highs
America still hasn’t learned to wrap it up — and that’s nothing to clap about. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases of sexually transmitted diseases syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea have hit record levels in the United States. Syphilis cases rose 19% from the year before. In 2015, there were 1.5 million […]