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Only 45% of Americans age 50 and older say they're likely to get the updated COVID-19 vaccine this season, according to a poll today from the University of Michigan. The poll shows many at high risk of severe illness appear unlikely to seek the vaccine, and interest in an updated vaccine varies widely by age-group, education level, and other factors. The results come from the National Poll on Healthy Aging conducted in August. At the time of polling, new COVID vaccines were not yet widely available, but they had been approved for use and endorsed by the Centers for Disease...

Public health agency rolled back some redactions after Epoch Times appeal... The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hid how a woman who suffered chest pain and other symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination received a shot because of a mandate at work, newly obtained documents show. The agency also redacted how multiple children were diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the documents. The Epoch Times obtained more than 1,400 pages of emails from the CDC concerning its Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) project, which analyzes post-vaccination problems reported by health care providers. The tranche...

The coronavirus news for kids has been overwhelmingly positive, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo is feeding fear by raising a tenuously connected specter of Kawasaki disease for children. Just when COVID death rates are declining and recovery appears around the corner in most states, the latest fear is that children are getting sick and are at risk of dying. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is one of those prominently pushing this inaccurate idea. He has emerged as the COVID-19 antihero due to his catastrophic policy of forcing nursing homes to accept infectious patients, which led to a surge in deaths. He...

SLIDELL -- Charles "Dooey" De Silva III was an outgoing six-year-old with a love for fun and a knack for karate. In mid-January, a nagging fever, at times as high as 106, led him to the hospital in Slidell. He was sent home with antibiotics, but the fever didn't budge. "He just had pain," said De Silva's aunt, Venus McCoy, "He said everything hurt - everything." That's when doctors suggested to take him to Children's Hospital to be checked out for something his family had never heard of before. "Kawasaki Disease is the most common arteritis of childhood and arteritis...

Reported in the Telegraph, Loretta Mackey, a police spokesman, said that Jett Travolta, son of actor John Travolta and actress Kelly Preston died during a seizure when he hit his head while in the bathtub. He was discovered unconscious and rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.