Mendocino Co. prepares for coronavirus; Newsom offers support, free tests (video)

NOTE: As this situation continues to develop Mendocino County has established a bilingual call line, at 707-234-6052, open Monday – Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., an email address at callcenter@mendocinocounty.org, and plans to provide updates every Monday. NOTA: El condado de Mendocino ha establecido una línea de llamada bilingüe, al 707-234-6052, abierta de lunes a viernes de 8 a.m....

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CDC Newsroom

Press releases, advisories, telebriefings, transcripts and archives. Press Release For Immediate Release: Monday, August 10, 2020 Contact: Media Relations (404) 639-3286 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is launching Hear Her , a national campaign that brings attention to pregnancy-related deaths and provides education and encouragement to pregnant and postpartum women (within one year of delivery). The campaign...

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LAC: Poverty, Poor Education and Lack of Opportunities Increase Risk of Teenage Pregnancy

Poverty, poor education, inequality and an inadequate ability to make decisions and control their own life plans puts girls in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at greater risk of teenage pregnancy and early motherhood. The region has the third highest teen fertility rate in the world and exhibits a slower decline in teenage pregnancies than other regions GUATEMALA CITY,...

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Pregnant and lactating women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines, pass antibodies to newborns

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found the new mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be highly effective in producing antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in pregnant and lactating women. They also demonstrated the vaccines confer protective immunity to newborns...

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