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Nov 20, 2024 | 
macon.com | Laura Weaver |Stephanie Lamm
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Laura Weaver |Stephanie Lamm
ATLANTA - By now, it should be a habit for most people: If it's time to buy a turkey or plan holiday travel, it's time to think about the uninvited guests: holiday viruses. The good news this year is that rates of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have been steadily declining to some of the lowest levels of the year. However, flu numbers are beginning to rise nationally and in Georgia, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thederrick.com | Laura Weaver |Stephanie Lamm
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Laura Weaver |Stephanie Lamm
By now, it should be a habit for most people: If it’s time to buy a turkey or plan holiday travel, it’s time to think about the uninvited guests: holiday viruses. The good news this year is that rates of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have been steadily declining to some of the lowest levels of the year. However, flu numbers are beginning to rise nationally and in Georgia, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ExploreIs it COVID or flu?
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
gazettextra.com | Laura Weaver |Stephanie Lamm
ATLANTA — By now, it should be a habit for most people: If it’s time to buy a turkey or plan holiday travel, it’s time to think about the uninvited guests: holiday viruses. The good news this year is that rates of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have been steadily declining to some of the lowest levels of the year. However, flu numbers are beginning to rise nationally and in Georgia, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Helena Oliviero |Laura Weaver
According to the company’s website, BioLab makes swimming pool and spa treatment products, and chemicals involved in those products have been detected in the plume of smoke still blowing from the Conyers plant on Tuesday. So far, public agencies say their air quality testing has not detected concentrations that would pose safety concerns to the general public, but they have advised residents of Rockdale and nearby counties to shelter indoors if they see or smell the plume.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Ariel Hart |Laura Weaver
Cancer researchers on Wednesday announced troubling new nationwide findings: Millennials and Generation X Americans have showna higher risk of getting cancer when young than Baby Boomers did, according to a study published yesterday in the journal The Lancet Public Health. The big question, the study says, now must be answered: Why?
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Laura Weaver
As Georgia and the nation are feeling under the weather from a summertime bump in COVID-19 cases that has now become as expected as July 4 fireworks, President Joe Biden has added the virus to his list of recent troubles. While traveling Wednesday in Las Vegas, Biden tested positive for COVID, forcing him to cancel a scheduled appearance in order to comply with recommended protocols, which still call for isolation during an infection.
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May 18, 2023 | 
ajc.com | Mirtha Donastorg |Laura Weaver |Michael Kanell
Wellstar Health System, one of the largest hospital operators in Georgia, is now becoming potentially one of the largest health tech funders in the state. Catalyst by Wellstar, the system’s innovation arm, announced Thursdaythe launch of a $100 million venture fund to invest in early-stage health care startups around the country.
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May 18, 2023 | 
ajc.com | Mirtha Donastorg |Laura Weaver |Michael Kanell
