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The Biden administration announces that over 296,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine will be distributed to combat the spread of monkeypox, including 56,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine.
2022-06-28

The CDC announces that they will activate an emergency operations center for monkeypox.
2022-06-28

The U.S. purchases 300,000 more doses of vaccines from Bavarian Nordic, including the Jynneos vaccine, as part of an effort to combat the monkeypox outbreak.
2022-06-10

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that the United States has obtained 36,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine in order to combat the monkeypox outbreak.
2022-06-6

The U.S. CDC says that American health officials are releasing Jynneos vaccines to combat monkeypox.
2022-05-23

Washington reports their first cases of the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 in two people residing in Snohomish County.
2021-01-23

The governors of five states: California, Ohio, Illinois, Washington and Massachusetts, order bars and restaurants to close in response to the pandemic.
2020-03-15

The American Academy of Pediatrics calls for pregnant women to abstain completely from alcohol during the entire three trimesters of the pregnancy, saying no amount of any type of alcohol should be considered safe since the risks, to the baby in particular (such as fetal alcohol syndrome, among many others), are too great. This puts the U.S. alongside other Western developed countries- except Italy and the United Kingdom, which still allow occasional small amounts- in urging complete abstinence. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the two other U.S. agencies that comment most about this issue, already recommend total alcohol abstinence.
2015-10-21

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) links prepackaged caramel apples to the listeria outbreak in ten US states that caused twenty-eight illnesses and four (or five) deaths.
2014-12-19