Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has declared the coronavirus a public health emergency in the United States. “Following the World Health Organization’s decision to declare the novel coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern, I have today declared that the coronavirus presents a public health emergency in the United States,” Azar said… Read More »
A Congolese health worker administers ebola vaccine to a child at the Himbi Health Centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 17, 2019. Olivia Acland | Reuters The deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization days after a case of… Read More »
A measles outbreak among a small segment of schoolchildren in New York has prompted the city’s Mayor Bill de Blasio to declare the public health crisis an emergency in parts of Brooklyn. But the actual danger is the sheer number of children in the the NYC public school system that go unvaccinated — which threatens… Read More »