With 20,000 people dying of COVID in the U.S. since October, every workplace needs to have standards around airborne disease protection, such as ventilation, testing and masking, recommends an occupational health expert.
Since the FDA greenlighted Novavax last month, clinical studies claiming less fevers and fatigue have driven people with long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome to seek out the protein-based vaccine.
Last year's "triple-demic" marked the beginning of a confluence of respiratory infections that began to fill hospitals, which is why Biden has awarded companies $1 billion to develop COVID vaccines that provide longer protection.
Many health care professionals and scientists expressed outrage after the CDC released a draft of its proposals in June, concluding that N95 face masks are equivalent to looser, surgical face masks in certain settings.
Hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID have risen in recent weeks, with roughly 7,300 people dying of the disease in the past 3 months, however, data suggests that the people getting shots are often not those most at risk.
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