CDC urges kids ages 16-17 to get newly cleared boosters; your 3rd shot unlikely to be your last: Live COVID updates | USA Today

Featuring CEID Faculty Dr. Andrew Stokes:

“Data released by the CDC this week could help answer questions about what types of non-COVID deaths increased during the pandemic and which COVID-19 deaths have been misclassified as something else, such as a death from heart disease, stroke or a respiratory illness. Andrew Stokes, an assistant professor of demography and sociology at Boston University’s Department of Global Health, said the new data allows researchers to ‘drill down’ to the county level and see how the pandemic is evolving locally. ‘That is unprecedented compared to where we were at just a year ago,’ Stokes said. ‘In a public health emergency, real-time surveillance is critical.’ ”

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