Mike Stobbe

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  • Bird flu pelicansHealth

    Bird flu just became mink flu at a farm in Spain. That’s not the only jump the virus has made.

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • KindergartenersHealth

    Americans keep refusing to vaccinate their kindergarteners

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Woman holding drinkHealth

    The shocking toll of alcohol abuse during the pandemic is just becoming clear: A 30% surge to the worst in 40 years, CDC says

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Friends at barHealth

    ‘Liberated’ Americans are catching STDs at ‘out of control’ rates as the pandemic comes to an end

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A sign asks those getting vaccinated to keep 6 feet apart during the vaccination event, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, Calif. The CDC has again revised its COVID guidelines, further relaxing quarantine recommendations and dropping the recommendation that people stay at least 6 feet away from each other. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP, File)Health

    CDC drops quarantine requirement for COVID exposure: ‘The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the last two years’

    By Mike Stobbe, Collin Binkley, and others
  • PolioHealth

    New York reports first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Moderna's vaccine.Health

    FDA advisers back Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for older kids

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • In this November 30, 2021 photo, syringes and vials of Naloxone are shown during the media tour of the supervised drug injection site OnPoint, in New York. – New York City has opened two supervised drug injection sites in the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods in an effort to address the increase in overdose deaths. Operated by OnPoint NYC, a consortium of two nonprofit social welfare organizations, these centers are the first to be officially licensed in the United States. They offer opioid and other drug users a variety of services, including addiction treatment. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    Overdose deaths in the U.S. hit record 107,000 last year, CDC says

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Medical staff prepare to move the body of a deceased COVID-19 patient to a funeral home van at the Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, La., Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April 2022 confirms that 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)Health

    COVID-19 and overdoses contributed to the deadliest year in U.S. history, new CDC study shows

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Firefighters from the Marins-Pompiers of Marseille extract samples of sewage water at a retirement home in Marseille, southern France, Thursday Jan. 14, 2021, to trace concentrations of COVID-19 and the highly contagious variant that has been discovered in Britain. As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S.—and wondering how long it will take to detect.Health

    Experts worry about how the U.S. will see the next COVID surge coming

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • A shopper at a grocery store wearing a proactive maskHealth

    The CDC says healthy people can stop wearing masks in places where transmission and hospitalizations are low

    By Carla K. Johnson, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • COVID-19 vaccines immunityHealth

    Prior infection, vaccines provide best protection from COVID-19, CDC study finds

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • CDC panel approves booster shots for young teensHealth

    CDC panel approves Pfizer boosters for younger teens

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 04: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. Earlier this week Walensky gave final approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years old. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Health

    As Omicron surges, the CDC says Americans who test positive for COVID should shorten their isolation from 10 days to five

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 23: A patie takes a COVID test outside District Urgent Care on December 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. The City of District of Columbia is distributing free test kits to local residents prior to the holidays as COVID case numbers have surged to a new high. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Health

    Here’s what to do if you test positive for COVID-19

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press