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Clalit Health Services to join European AI research project predicting, managing pandemics

Clalit Health Services will join an international consortium of health authorities to create an AI research platform to predict and manage pandemics in advance.

Israel's Clalit during Covid-19 global pandemic.
Aid agencies intensify efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus, in Bunia town, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 11, 2026.

Ebola risk for FIFA World Cup is 'extremely low', but US host cities are prepared, experts say

Discarded cigarettes; Illustrative.

International 'No Smoking Day' highlights the dangers of tobacco

Bahati Erasto Musanga, provincial Governor walks with other officials, as they leave the Rodolphe Merieux Laboratory, National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB), where samples from suspected Ebola cases are examined, as part of the response to the epidemic in Goma, North Kivu province of the Demo

Latest outbreak of Ebola in central Africa prompts global health emergency


Fauci says vaccines for kids between 5-11 likely available in November

Advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will weigh in on recommendations for the vaccine at a meeting on November 2 and November 3, helping to inform a final decision.

 Dr. Anthony Fauci

People vaccinated against COVID-19 less likely to die of other causes - study

Those who received the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or J&J vaccines are less likely to die from non-COVID-related causes, a CDC study found.

 Health worker prepares a Covid-19 vaccine at a temporary Clalit health care center in Jerusalem, September 30, 2021.

Delta variant ‘descendant’ hits Israel – is it time to panic?

It is said there are currently 56 “descendants” of the Delta variant, and they are all spreading at different rates and in competition with one another. 

A mall in Israel opens up after the country's third coronavirus lockdown.

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine highly protective in 12-18 age group - CDC

The new CDC study was conducted between June and September, when the extremely contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus was predominant.

A boy receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Jerusalem’s Misgav Ladach Hospital on June 6, as Israel began its coronavirus vaccination campaign for 12-to-15 year olds

COVID-19: FDA advisers back Moderna booster shots for older and high-risk people

The CDC will make specific recommendations on who should get the booster shots.

 A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site operated by SOMOS Community Care during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., January 29, 2021.

CDC highlights Camp Ramah as proof camping during COVID can be safe

The Centers for Disease Control has published a study highlighting the Jewish camps’ highly successful safety measures for avoiding the spread of COVID-19.

Camp Ramah boys camp in the Poconos, illustrative picture

This Jewish woman has become the face of America's fight against COVID

No. 3 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2021: US director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

 Rochelle P. Walensky (CDC)

CDC: Unvaccinated 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19

A CDC study has revealed people unvaccinated against COVID-19 are 29 times more likely to be hospitalized than those fully vaccinated.

An image of the virus that causes COVID-19, created by the CDC

British study shows COVID-19 vaccine efficacy wanes under Delta

A British study found that protection from either of the two most commonly used COVID-19 vaccines against the Delta variant weakens within three months.

Vials with a sticker reading, "COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only" and a medical syringe are seen in front of a displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken October 31, 2020

Israel given highest COVID travel warning by CDC

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention placed Israel at Level 4, the highest for COVID risk.

 A man walks near the British Airways terminal amid new restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at JFK International Airport in New York City, US, December 21, 2020.