Homegrown malaria, more to come
The CDC is warning doctors to be on guard for malaria after at least five locally acquired cases, in Florida and Texas, were identified for the first time in decades.
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The CDC is warning doctors to be on guard for malaria after at least five locally acquired cases, in Florida and Texas, were identified for the first time in decades.
According to the CDC, in the year 2020, New Yorkers saw the largest decline in life expectancy in the nation.
New York experienced the highest decline in life expectancy in the nation in 2020, largely due to the coronavirus and the spike in overdose deaths during pandemic-era lockdowns.
Homeless Americans fear vaccine conspiracies. Here's how cities are intervening. Stefan Sykes © Provided by NBC News When it came time for residents and staff at the New York Avenue homeless shelter in northeast Washington, D.C., to receive their first doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine, David Durham, who’s lived at the men’s shelter for three years, was scared. Like many at the shelter, he’d been bombarded by vaccine misinformation: Neighborhood talk and rumors turned into elaborate conspiracy theories, many of which played into the mistrust that homeless people alre...