United Health Foundation's "America’s Health Rankings 2021 Health of Women and Children Report" report cites an increase in maternal mortality and a decrease in women and child physical activity.
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The World Health Organization released a clinical definition of post COVID-19 illness Oct. 6 that was developed by patients and researchers.
The CDC director recommended booster doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 shot for tens of millions of people in the early morning hours of Sept. 24, with vaccination clinics across the U.S. quickly moving to start administering the shots later that day.
A new simulation model involving 10 states predicted 19,500 fewer hospitalizations and 6,900 fewer deaths from COVID-19, assuming daily vaccination rates increased by 50 percent in the last week of August 2021 and continued through March 2022.
New modeling estimates suggest natural immunity from a COVID-19 infection fades quickly, leaving individuals susceptible to reinfection, according to a study published Oct. 1 in The Lancet Microbe.
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Misinformation surrounding masking has turned the topic into a binary for Americans: either you're masked or not — but experts say the public needs to start paying attention to the quality of their masks.
UnitedHealth Group announced Oct. 5 that a significant portion of its U.S.-based team is subject to a new COVID-19 vaccination requirement.
Kentucky, Maine and New Mexico are all launching new state marketplaces for 2022, transitioning them away from healthcare.gov.
Nationally, new daily COVID-19 case, hospitalization and death rates are all declining.
Heightened discussions about the need for COVID-19 booster shots may be driving an uptick in antibody test requests at some hospitals, though experts say the test results are not a helpful indicator of immunity status, according to an Oct. 1…