Patient group calls for recurring COVID-19 boosters to cut through vaccine apathy The nonprofit ECRI said adopting a booster shot schedule targeting emerging variants would create certainty and convince more Americans to get shots. YahooNews

Fewer than one in three Americans have received an extra shot of the COVID-19 vaccine and one patient safety group thinks that's a public health challenge.

CMS turning attention to hospitals with Covid outbreaks The nation’s hospital regulator is probing hospitals where patients were likely infected with Covid after a record spike in transmission this year. POLITICO

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is probing hospitals where a high rate of patients have gotten Covid-19 infections after cases spiked to record highs this year.

Nation's latest COVID-19 wave largely hidden from view, health experts say 'There's a lot of COVID out there,' one expert acknowledged. ABC News ABC News

Current COVID-19 cases are just a fraction of what they were at the peak of the omicron wave.

But many people in the country may be noticing what seems to be a flood of cases in their social circles.

EU in talks for common purchase of vaccine, antiviral against monkeypox The European Union is working on a common purchasing agreement for vaccines and antiviralsagainst monkeypox, as cases of the viral disease usually endemic to Africa gather steam in Europe and beyond. Simon Johnson,Natalie Grover Reuters

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New Hampshire officials announce 7 new COVID-19 deaths in past week The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announced seven people died of COVID-19 in the past week. Jessica Kisluk WMUR

Of those deaths, three were reported on Thursday.

DHHS reported there were 3,920 known positive COVID-19 test results between Thursday, May 19 and Wednesday, May 25.111 ....

Warning signs ahead of monkeypox outbreak went unheeded, experts say Monkeypox appears to have exploded out of nowhere in the past two weeks, spreading across Europe, the Americas, and other regions. But warning signs appear to have gone unheeded. Helen Branswell STAT

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Viruses that were on hiatus during Covid are back — and behaving in unexpected ways For nearly two years, as the Covid pandemic disrupted life around the globe, other infectious diseases were in retreat. Now the viral and bacterial nuisances are returning — and behaving in unexpected ways. Helen Branswell STAT

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Now, as the world rapidly dismantles the measures put in place to slow spread of Covid, the viral and bacterial nuisances that were on hiatus are returning — and behaving in unexpected ways.