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Covid Update: Fully Vaccinated Adults 65 and Older 94% Less Likely to Be Hospitalized with COVID-19– CDC

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Joel Whitaker

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention said fully vaccinated adults 65 years and older were 94% less likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than people of the same age who were not vaccinated. People 65 and older who were partially … Continue reading →

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CDC Says Open Schools. But Must Bars, Eateries Then Close?

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Joel Whitaker

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention recommended schools reopen.  Many people online said if schools should reopen, bars and restaurants must have to close. The CDC recommendation was based, among other things, on a study in rural Wisconsin that found … Continue reading →

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CDC: Americans Still Drink Too Much

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Joel Whitaker

Here we are, roughly five months into the Covid-19 epidemic in the U.S. and the virus has already killed killed 151,794 people in the U.S, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Covid tracker. So what is the anti-alcohol Centers for Disease Control … Continue reading →

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To Fight Zika, Cut the CDC’s Alcohol Program

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Joel Whitaker

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention officially concluded that the Zika virus “is a cause of microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects.  And, CDC Director Thomas H. Freiden said, the agency is “launching further studies to determine whether children … Continue reading →

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CDC’s Budget to Control Infectious Diseases Slashed 75%, But Its Anti-Alcohol Programs Continued Full Strength

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Joel Whitaker

Infectious diseases or a jihad against alcohol. It shouldn’t be hard to figure out where government should put its money. But in the “restricted budget environment in which our government operates today, funding to meet these pandemics has fallen” to … Continue reading →

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