Public Health

The New York Times compiled data to determine which U.S. counties are reporting the highest average daily COVID-19 cases reported per 100,000 people over the last week.

The U.S. is on schedule to start vaccinating children under age 12 against COVID-19 by early next year, Anthony Fauci, MD, said during a May 18 White House news briefing.

The U.K.'s National Health Service rolled out digital COVID-19 vaccination verification May 18, according to MIT Technology Review.

Cells in the eye can be directly infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to findings published May 17 by ScienceDirect. 

Fifty-one percent of U.S. COVID-19 shots administered over the last two weeks have gone to people of color, Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, senior adviser for the White House COVID-19 response team, said during a May 18 news briefing.

The reason some communities have low COVID-19 vaccination rates can't be entirely chalked up to vaccine hesitancy. Factors that determine an individual's access to vaccination play a role as well — namely Internet access, insurance status, income, household size and…

Dayton, Ohio-based health plan CareSource announced a partnership with at-home medication disposal service DisposeRx in an effort to prevent opioid misuse.

COVID-19 vaccination rates were 6.8 percentage points lower in rural U.S. counties than in urban counties as of early April, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published May 18.

More than 100 people, mostly homeless, have contracted shigellosis, a bacterial gastrointestinal infection, in the Seattle region since October 2020, The Seattle Times reported May 19. 

Financial stress, loss of a loved one and social isolation are just a few of the reasons behind an uptick in the number of people experiencing mental health issues amid the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say, and while infections continue to…