Andrew Noymer

UC Irvine

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Demographer and Associate Professor of Public Health at UC Irvine.

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“Kids may catalyze another wave [of the epidemic]. If you think this is bad, the fall and winter may be worse.

Kids could trigger another wave of COVID and the fall may be worse, says health professor

“Kids may catalyze another wave [of the epidemic]. If you think this is bad, the fall and winter may be worse.

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New federal numbers show that life expectancy in the U.S. dropped for the second consecutive year. Health officials are pointing to opioids as the problem.

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