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Mar 30

WATCH: Surgeon General Murthy, CDC Director Walensky testify on efforts to move beyond COVID-19

By News Desk

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and CDC Director Walensky testified Wednesday before the House subcommittee on Covid-19 on efforts to move beyond COVID-19.

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Feb 08

WATCH: Surgeon General Murthy testifies on youth mental health at Senate Finance committee

By News Desk

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy testifies Tuesday on youth mental health before the Senate Finance committee.

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Aug 18

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Surgeon general on booster shots for Americans, vaccinating the world

The White House is now strongly recommending booster shots for vaccinated, a move that comes as more than 1,000 people died from COVID on Tuesday — the first time the count has been that high since March. It also comes…

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Jul 22

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U.S. surgeon general on the ‘most powerful tools’ to combat the delta variant

Amna Nawaz and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy dive deeper into the Biden administration's efforts to combat the delta variant of the novel coronavirus and surrounding misinformation, public masking requirements and vaccination efforts amid the rise of COVID-19 cases.

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Jul 18

With pandemic worsening in US, surgeon general worried

By Jay Reeves, Associated Press

Noting that nearly all coronavirus deaths now are among the tens of millions of people who haven't received shots, despite widespread vaccine availability, Dr. Vivek Murthy painted an unsettling picture of what the future could hold.

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Jul 16

WATCH: Biden says virus disinformation is ‘killing people’

By Associated Press, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

President Joe Biden said Friday that social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about COVID-19 vaccines.

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Jul 15

WATCH: Surgeon general urges U.S. fight against COVID-19 misinformation

By David Klepper, Associated Press

The warning comes as the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations has slowed throughout the U.S., in part because of vaccine opposition fueled by unsubstantiated claims about the safety of immunizations.

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Jul 02

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U.S. surgeon general on delta variant, vaccine hesitancy and COVID long haulers

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Health officials are sounding the alarm this holiday weekend about the highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus that is causing an increase in COVID-19 cases in the United States. Its greatest threat is to those who are unvaccinated. Judy…

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Feb 25

WATCH: Surgeon general, assistant HHS secretary nominees testify before Senate

By Courtney Vinopal

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Feb. 25 will consider the nominations of Vivek Murthy for U.S. Surgeon General and Dr. Rachel Levine for assistant secretary of Health and Human Services.

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Nov 13

Watch 8:53
Co-chair of Biden’s COVID task force on plans to fight pandemic

This week, President-elect Biden announced a COVID-19 task force to prepare specific plans for the months ahead -- and assess what can be done differently as coronavirus rages across the country. Dr. Vivek Murthy, a former U.S. surgeon general, is…

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