Why Won’t More Older Americans Get Their Covid Booster?
By Liz Szabo Even as top U.S. health officials say it’s time America learns to live with the coronavirus, a chorus of leading researchers say faulty messaging on…
A Guide to Help You Keep Up with the Omicron Subvariants
By Louis Jacobson Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans can be forgiven if they’ve lost track of the latest variants circulating nationally and around the world. We’ve…
Health Experts Await Data on Moderna’s Vaccine for Kids
By Jenny Manrique The medical community is celebrating drug maker Moderna’s recent announcement that it is seeking FDA approval for its Covid-19 vaccination for younger kids, though experts…
Attendance Plummets at COVID-19 Vaccination Events
By Heidi de Marco Nurse Angel Ho-king sways her head to the sound of salsa music as she waits for people willing to roll up their sleeves to…
Why Cheap, Older Drugs That Might Treat Covid Never Get Out of the Lab
By Arthur Allen In March 2020, Dr. Joseph Vinetz left the contemplative world of his Yale University infectious-disease laboratory and plunged into the covid ward at Yale New…
Colorado Introduces COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Calculator
The state launched an interactive tool that provides Coloradans with an easy way to determine the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses that are recommended for them. The number of…
The United States is Nearing 1 Million Deaths from COVID-19
By Phil Galewitz Connie Houtz didn’t think covid would be that bad. She’d seen many people in this rural hamlet in central Pennsylvania get infected yet recover…
Pandemic Funding Is Running Out for Community Health Workers
By Lauren Weber As a community health worker, 46-year-old Christina Scott is a professional red-tape cutter, hand-holder, shoulder to cry on, and personal safety net, all wrapped into…
CDC Discusses Current Status Of COVID-19 and Vaccines
By Karen Gutiérrez Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on the state of the pandemic in the United States and across the world,…
Health Officials See Progress in Wastewater Surveillance
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester One of Patrick Green’s first orders of business each day is to open a tap and fill a bottle with sludge. A…