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Drops in COVID masking, testing and vaccination are continuing to create the perfect conditions for a new variant to emerge. Experts warn that a new variant could cause significant mortality. The U.S. is experiencing its highest levels of influenza hospitalizations...
The country is still under a Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) and will be through January 11, 2023. This can be extended by the Biden Administration. At the start of the pandemic Congress enacted the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) which included a...
Annually observed by the Centers for Disease Control, August is National Immunization Awareness Month. You can find more information about National Immunization Awareness Month here(https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/events/niam/index.html.). To date just over 70% of...
Social Security Administration offices in Georgia and around the country are opening after being closed for more than two years, and the challenges involved are already becoming clear. Lawmakers are now calling for hearings that will discuss the way forward as...
If pandemic- related conditions do not worsen, all field offices of the Social Security Administration are set to open on March 30, 2022. This is good news for disability beneficiaries and applicants as well as people waiting to apply for Supplemental Security Income...
As 2021 draws to a close, Georgia ranked 50th this year, ahead of only Oklahoma and Mississippi in health care. The Medicare Guide on senior health care analyzed prescription drug prices, the number of physicians in relation to the state’s population and life...
A new study confirms what we have known for a while now-symptoms of long Covid affect more survivors than earlier believed. confirms what we have known for a while now-symptoms of long Covid affect more survivors than earlier believed. The study was conducted in...
According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, the state is seeing a surge in Covid-19 infections, with the numbers close to the highest on record since January. Most infections are linked to the Delta variant, a highly contagious strain of the virus that has...
Long Covid, the baffling condition in which Covid survivors continue to suffer the effects of the virus in their immune system for months after the initial viral infection, is still not well understood. More than a year after the start of the pandemic, we are still...
One of the many consequences of a Covid-19 infection, as more data indicates, includes suffering a stroke. A stroke is an emergency medical condition in which there is an interruption in the supply of blood to the brain. This results in damage to the brain cells. ...