Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
COVID-19 pills could be game-changer, but doctors worry about early access, uptake
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As rates of COVID-19 infections rise during the holidays and omicron cases surface across the United States, drug companies Pfizer and Merck are p...
Dec 18, 2021
'Striking' impact of COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health
Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith(NEW YORK) -- Dr. Deborah Levine has been a pediatric emergency medicine physician in the New York City area for over two decades. In recent years, she has o...
Dec 17, 2021
CDC committee recommends opting for Pfizer or Moderna over J&J when there's a choice
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- The CDC's advisory committee recommended Thursday that people who have a choice should get an mRNA vaccine, either Pfizer or Moderna, over the single-shot Johnson &...
Dec 16, 2021
Americans avoiding health care in pandemic over cost concerns
PeopleImages/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted Americans’ perceptions of health care, and not for the better, according to a new survey. Nearly half of Americans say the pand...
Dec 16, 2021
Senators take aim at fraudsters flooding the market with fake masks
Kilito Chan/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Two senators are taking aim at the widespread issue of fake and ineffective masks flooding the U.S. market. A new bill announced Thursday and obtained exclusively by ...
Dec 16, 2021
COVID deaths for pregnant people spiked during delta: Data
(ATLANTA) -- As the delta variant of COVID-19 spread across the United States this summer, the virus appeared to take a particular toll on unvaccinated pregnant people, with deaths dramatically increa...
Dec 15, 2021
One year of COVID-19 vaccines: Millions inoculated, but hundreds of thousands still lost
scaliger/iStock(NEW YORK) -- One year ago, on Dec. 14, 2020, Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse from Northwell Health, became the first American to roll up her sleeve and receive a COVID-19 vacci...
Dec 14, 2021
COVID vaccination requirements may push more people to get their shots: Study
iStock/koto_feja(NEW YORK) -- Requiring proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to eat at a restaurant, go to a movie or take part in other indoor group activities may have a ripple effect, according to resea...
Dec 13, 2021
Fauci says omicron can evade vaccine protection, but boosters help
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Omicron can evade the protection initial vaccines give, but boosters increase efficacy and better protect against the newest variant of concern, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday. ...
Dec 13, 2021
Peloton responds to 'Sex and the City' sequel 'And Just Like That...' with ad featuring Chris Noth
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Sex and the City fans were served a major surprise at the end of the first episode of the new sequel series, And Just Like That... -- and Peloton was at the center ...
Dec 13, 2021
