Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp. is expanding Medicare Advantage plans to over 90 new counties as it provides new plan options to 1.1 million eligible people, marking the largest expansion of its kind for the insurer.
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The CDC started publicly tracking the prominence of four different forms of the delta variant on Aug. 9.
A 67-year-old man experiencing symptoms for one month was later diagnosed with septicemic plague, according to the CDC's Aug. 6 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report.
More COVID-19 testing is needed to gauge the prevalence of asymptomatic breakthrough infections, or those that occur among fully vaccinated people, according to Anthony Fauci, MD, the White House chief medical advisor.
The U.S. is reporting more than 100,000 new COVID-19 cases a day for the first time since February, according to data tracked by The New York Times.
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COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are increasing, alongside vaccination rates, as the highly transmissible delta variant continues to spread in the U.S., accounting for more than 90 percent of infections, according to the CDC's COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review published…
The U.S. may soon require most international visitors to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination status, according to a White House official, The Hill reported Aug. 4.
Intensive care unit beds are filling up in Mississippi and Arkansas amid a major surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly transmissible delta variant, NBC News reported Aug. 4.
South Korea reported its first case of the "delta plus" COVID-19 strain Aug. 3, The Washington Post reports. Some health officials have said delta plus, first identified in Europe in March 2020, is believed to spread more easily than the…
The World Health Organization is asking countries that are considering COVID-19 booster shots to hold off through at least September as people in many parts of the world remain unvaccinated, The Washington Post reports.