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There might not be a coronavirus vaccine yet, but it’s incredibly important to get a flu shot this year. The influenza season will overlap with the COVID-19 pandemic, making matters even worse. The World Health Organization made it clear during a news conference that COVID-19 pandemic is “one big wave,” not a seasonal disease like the flu. Without containing COVID-19 first, countries may run into problems battling both the novel coronavirus and the flu. The WHO advises people to seek flu vaccines as the flu season gets underway during the southern hemisphere’s winter. The novel coronavirus pandemic is very much out of control, as the world is experiencing a massive surge in cases. Some regions have successfully flattened the curve, while others are currently going through...

Click here to read the full article. Los Angeles County on Tuesday reported a total of 2,708 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 numbers, with the county’s Department of Public Health announcing 51 new deaths from the virus. It said it anticipates receiving a backlog of cases in the following days due to reporting delays, with three hospitals not reporting data today. With the new cases, the county has a total of 178,642 positive COVID-19 cases and 4,426 deaths to date. There are 2,051 current coronavirus-related hospitalizations as of Tuesday, with 18% of those patients on ventilators. Total hospitalizations are down from the all-time high of 2,232 patients hospitalized on July 20, but up from 2,017 on Monday. More from Deadline Tuesdays COVID-19 numbers repped an uptick in cases from Frid...

With infection rates and death tolls from the coronavirus mounting by the day, it can become easy to forget that there are other epidemics that are plaguing Americans nationwide. And while the pandemic is largely taking a direct toll on the older segments of the population, young peoples' lives are being impacted by other crises. According to one of the nation's top health officials, there are tragically two things that are killing more young people than COVID itself. In an online interview with the Buck Institute earlier this month, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield, MD, candidly discussed how school closures have affected children and teenagers across the country—and h...