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Aug. 10—As the number of cases slowly increases, Stanislaus County's public health immunization clinic will hold a small number of free clinics for administering monkeypox vaccine to eligible county residents. The clinics are by appointment only and limited to people in high-risk categories because of the scarce supply of monkeypox vaccine. Only Stanislaus County residents can get ...

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LOS ANGELES — Authorities investigating the crash in the Windsor Hills neighborhood that left five people dead are trying to sort out the actions and mindset of the nurse who prosecutors say plowed her Mercedes into the intersection. Investigators are still trying to get a full account of what brought Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, to the corner of Slauson and La Brea avenues last Thursday ...

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Walgreens helped fuel the opioid epidemic in San Francisco by shipping hundreds of thousands of "suspicious orders" of prescription drugs to its pharmacies, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. More than 100 million prescription opioid pills were dispensed by Walgreens in the city between 2006 and 2020, and during that time, the pharmacy giant failed to investigate hundreds of thousands of orders ...

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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — America’s top diplomat on Wednesday was hoping to showcase the potential for democracy and climate action here in one of Africa’s largest countries. But backsliding reality got in the way. Within hours of U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo — as he repeatedly urged free, fair and “on time” presidential ...

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Last week’s announcement declaring monkeypox a national public health emergency may get more vaccines to more people sooner than expected. But don’t expect widespread availability for quite awhile, area health officials say. “This is about trying to get more vaccines produced and distributed to jurisdictions that need it,” said Nathan Koffarnus, assistant bureau chief for the bureau of ...

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New Jersey on Wednesday reported another 2,350 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 29 new confirmed deaths, a new five-month high for daily deaths. The state’s rate of transmission was 0.92 on Wednesday, according to the state Department of Health. A transmission rate below 1 is an indication that each new case is leading to less than one additional case. When the transmission rate is 1, that means ...

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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that pharmacy giant Walgreens could be held liable for fueling the opioid epidemic in San Francisco by shipping and dispensing hundreds of thousands of "suspicious orders" of prescription drugs, the latest legal reckoning over America's prescription drug crisis. More than 100 million prescription opioid pills were dispensed by Walgreens in the city between 2006 ...

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A Mahtomedi man is charged with third-degree murder for allegedly selling pills containing fentanyl to an Oak Park Heights girl who later died of an overdose. Jeremiah Palmore, 20, was charged Aug. 5 in connection with the girl’s death in May 2021. The girl’s mother called 911 on May 12, 2021, after finding her daughter, 17, lying face down in her bed, according to the criminal complaint filed ...

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Miami-Dade County is opening its first two monkeypox vaccination sites at Tropical Park and in Miami Beach to counter the growing number of cases in the recently declared U.S. public health emergency, county officials said Wednesday. The vaccine sites will open on Friday, although people can register for an appointment in advance by going to miamidade.gov/monkeypox or by calling ...

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With more than 1,000 cases of monkeypox in the state, Florida health officials are postponing second doses to offer more first-time shots of the Jynneos vaccine. “The Department of Health is using all available doses as first doses only. Second doses will be rescheduled once the federal government has increased vaccine supply,” said Nina Levine, a spokesperson for the Department of Health, ...