U.S. Urges Travelers to Israel to Get Vaccinated Against Polio (Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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People should take a dose of the polio vaccine before they go to Israel, says the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
A CDC advisory recommending the vaccine will soon be sent to health departments, private physicians and travel agents, Jim Mize, a public health adviser at the CDC, said last week.
“We strongly advise a traveler getting the vaccine at this time,” Mize said. “As of this morning, Israel has 16 cases diagnosed.”
As a result of the CDC recommendation, the Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia has recommended that mission participants get boosters before they travel. Federation received a reminder of the CDC position from the United Jewish Appeal in New York.
Hello, it’s Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. President Trump got himself impeached again, and in record time: one week between the commission of offense, indictment, and a vote in the House of Representatives. Wednesday was notable in another way, too: For the second time this month, U.S. deaths from COVID-19 surpassed 4,000 in a single day. Despite the presence of a vaccine, January is set to be the deadliest month yet. Nearly 40,000 Americans have died 14 days into 2021. The worldwide total during the past year has now surpassed 2 million souls.
Viruses are a formidable adversary for humans, even if we’re doing everything right. That was not the case with this contagion. The institutions tasked with protecting us failed to do so, lapses exacerbated by dishonest, dysfunctional politics.
In early December 2019, I sat in a conference room at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, listening to its director, Dr. Robert Redfield, answer a question: Is America ready for another major infectious disease like Ebola or the Zika virus?
Redfield s response reiterated what most public health experts knew, but coming from him, it was jarring. It’s not a secret,” he said. “Our nation is not prepared for a flu pandemic.”
He was certain such a pandemic would one day arrive, and although he couldn t foresee when, he knew it would be bad: “It’s going to be a huge loss of life.”
The Stand: How The End Differs from Stephen King s Book
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The Stand debuted on CBS All Access Thursday with the premiere episode of the nine-part limited series, The End , introducing viewers to a handful of the main characters for this dystopian story while also revealing how the world as those characters know it ends. However, while the series is a largely faithful adaptation of Stephen King s epic novel of the same name, there are some key differences from the page to the screen and we re breaking down some of the major ones we spotted in this premiere episode.
Warning: spoilers ahead for the first episode of