Ping Huang
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athletes are headed to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
They range in age from 15-year-old Abby Winterberger, a free skier from California, to Rich Ruinen, a 54-year-old curler from Minnesota.
Two-time gold medalist Michaela Schifrin is back, representing the U.S.
in alpine skiing for her fourth Olympics.
Other athletes are returning to compete in snowboarding, bobsledding, ice hockey and figure skating.
A new sport this year is ski mountaineering.
The Winter Olympics kicks off with the opening ceremony on February 6th and runs through February 22nd.
Generally, it's just a really cool time for alpine ski racing, and our team is bringing big energy into Milan Cortina.
There's still time to get a flu vaccine, especially for people who are older or have medical conditions that make them more vulnerable.
The shot, which is covered by insurance, prepares the immune system to fight the virus so you're less likely to develop serious illness or have to go to the hospital if you get exposed to flu.
Another way to prevent infection is to put more distance between yourself and people who are sick and to air out your indoor spaces by opening windows or using an air filter and cleaning countertops, door handles, and other frequently touched surfaces.
If you do get sick, like many of us have, the CDC recommends staying home until you no longer have a fever and your other symptoms are getting better.
That could help you mend faster and protects others from getting infected.
Around 8 percent of pregnant women in the U.S.
It's a health problem that's risen consistently over the past 10 years.
That's according to an analysis of more than 12 million births led by scientists at Northwestern University and published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.