Mary Kekatos
Health and Science Reporter at ABC News
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1 week ago |
southernillinoisnow.com | Mary Kekatos
(NEW YORK) — More than five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the United States, hundreds of people are still dying every week. Last month, an average of about 350 people died each week from COVID, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While high, the number of deaths is decreasing and is lower than the peak of 25,974 deaths recorded the week ending Jan. 9, 2021, as well as weekly deaths seen in previous spring months, CDC data shows.
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2 weeks ago |
abcnews.go.com | Mary Kekatos
Experts say there is low vaccine uptake and people are not accessing treatments. Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. SARS-CoV-2, also known as the novel coronavirus, is a virus that causes COVID-19, a respiratory illness.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Mary Kekatos
1 day agoEighteen people were injured in a knife attack at the main railway station in the German city of Hamburg on Friday evening, police said. Hamburg police said on Saturday that four of the victims who had sustained life-threatening injuries were in a stable condition. Officers arrested a 39-year-old …
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2 weeks ago |
abcnews.go.com | Mary Kekatos
This is the second highest case count in 25 years, CDC data shows. ByMary Kekatos and Dr. Karen Tachi UdohSigns point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium, on Feb. 27, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images, FILEMeasles cases have reached 1,046 as the virus continues spreading across the United States, according to data updated Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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2 weeks ago |
abcnews.go.com | Mary Kekatos
Vaccines using mRNA technology have been studied for decades, experts say. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed on Oct. 14, 2015. Andrew Harnik/APOver the last several days, the safety and efficacy of messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccines have come under intense scrutiny.
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This marks the first #Measles death in the U.S. in 10 years. Doctors say the death highlights the importance of receiving the #MMR vaccine. Two doses are 97% effective.
BREAKING: An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak in the western part of the state that has infected more than 100 people. https://t.co/5daz7Fj9xc https://t.co/dbuMEn71YK