Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio

Why experts say COVID threat looms with winter
Lubo Ivanko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- State and local health officials are once again raising the alarm about the renewed threat of COVID-19 spread in communities across the country as people head indoors d...
Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News Nov 12, 2021

How climate change can harm your skin
PeopleImages/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Experts agree climate change is exacting a hefty toll on human health -- from increasing rates of asthma and heat stroke to depression and anxiety. But now, dermatolog...
Dr. Alexis E. Carrington, ABC News Nov 12, 2021

Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country. So why are cases surging?
FatCamera/iStock(ATLANTA) -- Vermont is one of the most vaccinated states in the country and has served as a model for its COVID-19 response throughout the pandemic. But now, the state is experiencing...
Meredith Deliso, ABC News Nov 12, 2021

Albuquerque hospitals enact crisis standards of care during 'unprecedented' time
PinkOmelet/iStock(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) -- The two largest hospital systems in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have activated crisis standards of care due to an "unprecedented level" of activity during the pand...
Meredith Deliso, ABC News Nov 11, 2021

Texas abortion law impacting providers as far away as California, Maryland
iStock(DALLAS) -- The impact of Texas's near-total ban on abortions is being felt in states as far away as California and Maryland, according to new research. In the weeks since SB8, which outlaws mos...
Katie Kindelan, ABC News Nov 11, 2021

Boy born at 21 weeks named world's most premature infant to survive
Kateywhat/iStock(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) -- A boy who weighed just 15 ounces at birth has been named by Guinness World Records as the world’s most premature infant to survive. Curtis Means, of Alabama...
Katie Kindelan, ABC News Nov 11, 2021

Risk of measles outbreaks growing as 22 million infants miss 1st vaccine: Officials
iStock/Pornpak Khunatorn(NEW YORK) -- More than 22 million infants across the globe didn't get their first measles vaccine dose last year, according to a joint statement Wednesday from the World Healt...
Sony Salzman and Emily Shapiro, ABC News Nov 10, 2021

Pfizer asks FDA to amend booster authorization to include all adults
no_limit_pictures/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Pfizer on Tuesday requested the Food and Drug Administration allow all Americans over 18 to be eligible for booster shots, submitting data from a 10,000-person ...
ABC Audio Nov 09, 2021

Surgeon general releases guide to combating COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith(WASHINGTON) -- The government's top doctor released a step-by-step toolkit Tuesday morning to help people combat misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines ...
Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News Nov 09, 2021

Mom meets newborn after 85 days in hospital with COVID-19
Paola Gambini(GROVELAND, Fla.) -- A Florida mom who spent 85 days hospitalized with COVID-19 complications was able to return home to finally meet her newborn baby. "I got out of the car by myself and...
Katie Kindelan, ABC News Nov 09, 2021
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