Covid-19 Vaccines: ‘We Are Not Where We Should Be’
Medicaid enrollees are getting vaccinated against covid-19 at far lower rates than the general population as states search for the best strategies to improve access to the shots and…
What You Should Know About Covid Vaccine Booster
The Biden administration announced plans on August 18, to offer boosters to all U.S. adults as soon as next month, saying that recent data, including some made available only in…
Nurse Practitioner Takes Covid Shots House to House in Puerto Rico
Dr. Abigail Matos-Pagán became interested in medicine after watching nurses support her mother, who died of complications from an aneurysm when Matos-Pagán was 9. Today she holds various titles:…
Delta’s Future Course: ‘It’s Going to Get Worse’
Unraveling the Mysterious Mutations That Make Delta the Most Transmissible Covid Virus Yet Upon first inspection, the mutations in the highly contagious delta covid variant don’t look…
CDC Experts: ‘The Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’
As the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads across the country, health authorities are concerned about the increase in cases in rural counties where vaccination rates are very low. According to…
A Postal Worker Begged for Stronger COVID-19 Protections
Last November, just as Minnesota was suffering through a punishing wave of COVID-19, managers at a St. Paul U.S. Postal Service distribution center allowed employees to hold a going-away…
COVID-19: Doctors Agree That Masks Are Here to Stay
The reopening of the economy amid the pandemic has generated confusion among Americans about whether or not they should continue wearing masks. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says that…
Largest US Nurses Union Urges CDC to Reinstate Federal Mask Mandate
Declaring Covid-19 vaccines “not enough by themselves to combat the pandemic,” the nation’s largest union of registered nurses on July 13 called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Collecting FEMA Funeral Money Takes Some Tenacity
As a funeral director at Ingold Funeral and Cremation in Fontana, California, Jessica Rodríguez helps families say goodbye to their loved ones. “We serve predominantly Latino families, most of them…
Thousands of Young Children Lost Parents to Covid
By JoNel Aleccia Five months after her husband died of covid-19, Valerie Villegas can see how grief has wounded her children. Nicholas, the baby, who was 1 and…