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Healthy Living

BYU professors, students discuss navigating illness in a post-covid world

By Emily Morford
November 15, 2022 12:00 AM
With winter sickness setting in, professors and students are sharing suggestions on how students can navigate illness in a post-COVID-19 world.
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Featured

Vivint Arena lifts COVID vaccine and test requirements

By Ashley Chase
February 16, 2022 12:00 AM
Vivint Arena visitors will no longer be required to show proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 tests starting Feb. 25. The arena hosts events such as Utah Jazz basketball games, concerts and ice shows.
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Local

Top Utah health officials concerned about COVID-19 delta variant

By Decker Westenburg
July 08, 2021 12:00 AM
Utah health officials hosted a news conference on July 7 to address Utah's status as the sixth-worst state in the United States when it comes to COVID-19 case rates.
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Campus News

BYU not concerned over COVID-19 testing decrease but encourages vigilance

By Veronica Maciel
April 26, 2021 12:00 AM
Utah has seen a steady decrease in testing for COVID-19 over the past three months. BYU officials said they are not concerned about the decrease in the number of tests on campus but are looking forward to wider vaccine distribution.
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Campus Events

Virus simulation results show BYU pandemic-related policies are effective

By Veronica Maciel
April 14, 2021 12:00 AM
An Operation Outbreak virus simulation found that BYU pandemic-related policies helped slow transmission of a virtual 'virus.'
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COVID-19

Possible COVID-19 vaccines already taking heat from the anti-vaccine community

By Emily Andersen
May 22, 2020 12:00 AM
The possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine is getting closer and closer, and while many people are eagerly awaiting its release, others are concerned about how quickly the vaccines are being developed.
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Healthy Living

Thousands of young US children get no vaccines, survey finds

By Associated Press
October 16, 2018 12:00 AM
This 1981 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows varicella-zoster virions from a patient with chickenpox. On Thursday, Oct. 11, the CDC says a small but growing proportion of U.S. toddlers have not been vaccinated against any disease. (Dr. Erskine Palmer/CDC via AP)
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Readers' Forum

Readers' Forum Jan. 9, 2018

By Camille Baker
January 09, 2018 12:00 AM
Lauren and her husband, Pavel, volunteered for the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts through Mormon Helping Hands. (Lauren Fine)
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Healthy Living

Health professionals advise BYU students to get their flu shots

By Sofie Greenbaum
October 14, 2015 12:00 AM
Statistics show surprising flu facts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The BYU Student Health Center will be presenting a flu shot clinic on Oct. 15. (BYU Universe)
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Local

Fact check: Republican debate features a few inflated claims

September 17, 2015 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON — Viewers of the second Republican presidential debate heard inflated claims about Planned Parenthood abortion practices and the risks of vaccines, as well as a dubious assertion by Donald Trump that he wasn't interested in establishing casinos in Florida back in Jeb Bush's days as a candidate for governor.
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Healthy Living

Vaccine rates up in Utah, but comparatively low to other states

By Felix Lara
August 19, 2015 12:00 AM
Vaccination is a hot topic in the United States. While vaccination rates have gone up in Utah, it is still low compared to other states.
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Healthy Living

Utah Department of Health declares end of measles outbreak

By Alyssa Blake
March 02, 2015 12:00 AM
The Utah Department of Health declared the end of Utah's measles outbreak after the first measles cases were identified in January.
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Healthy Living

Vaccines reduce risk of disease, some parents still wary

By Alyssa Blake
February 24, 2015 12:00 AM
Families a century ago were considered lucky if they were able to raise all of their children. Diseases like measles, whooping cough, tetanus and meningitis used to claim the lives of millions of children.
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