Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
FDA grants full approval to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
carmengabriela/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Addressing the nation hours after the Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted full approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the firs...
Aug 23, 2021
Louisiana doctors struggle as COVID patients flood hospitals
ABC News(BATON ROUGE, La.) -- In Louisiana, the COVID-19 crisis is leaving hospitals teetering on the edge of collapse. The state currently has the nation's highest case rate, and hospitalization leve...
Aug 20, 2021
As delta variant surges, remote learning in the spotlight for another school year
Drazen Zigic/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Rhashonna Cosby's two children fared very differently during their months of remote learning. Her son thrived working independently, going on to graduate from high sch...
Aug 20, 2021
How to prepare kids for back to school without fixating on 'learning loss'
Halfpoint/iStock(NEW YORK) -- As students across the country head back to school, a top priority for many educators and parents is how to help students who have experienced "learning loss" during the ...
Aug 20, 2021
Major expanded recall on frozen shrimp sold at Whole Foods, other retailers
iStock/bigtunaonline (NEW YORK) -- Time to take stock of what's in your freezer after a major frozen shrimp producer issued an expanded recall on a range of products due to salmonella concerns. Avanti...
Aug 19, 2021
Over 20,000 Mississippi students under quarantine after 1st week of school
iStock/Vladimir Vladimirov (MISSISSIPPI) -- More than 20,000 students across Mississippi are in quarantine after the first week of in-person classes. Mississippi, which has the lowest vaccination rate...
Aug 19, 2021
Exhausted, stressed, drained: It’s 'déjà vu' for moms as school year begins amid COVID surge
ljubaphoto/iStock(NEW YORK) -- When Tina Sherman, a mom of four sons in Wake County, North Carolina, thinks of sending her children back to school later this month, she can sum up the emotion of it al...
Aug 19, 2021
Nurse takes care of patients even on her days off
iStock/NanoStockk (LAS VEGAS) -- For some patients, it's the little things. Brooke Johns, 40, is an emergency room nurse at Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas. On her days off, she heads back to the...
Aug 18, 2021
How this teacher is tackling mental health as students return from year of remote learning
mixetto/iStock(FREMONT, Calif.) -- When students return to Erin Castillo's classroom Wednesday, their first day of in-person school in over a year, the high school teacher will be paying attention to ...
Aug 18, 2021
Five ways parents can protect infants and toddlers from COVID-19
ArtistGNDphotography/iStock(BALTIMORE) -- With the delta variant surging, and new data indicating young people can spread COVID more readily than previously thought, many parents with infants and todd...
Aug 18, 2021
