The Biden administration will provide $7.4 billion to hire and train public health workers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and future health crises, according to a May 13 news release.
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Nearly all — 99 percent — of COVID-19 patients at Cleveland Clinic at the beginning of the year weren't fully vaccinated, preliminary data shows.
Missouri notified CMS it is formally withdrawing its planned Medicaid expansion, the state governor's office said May 13.
Mississippi is the latest target for Medicaid expansion, according to Forbes.
People who received different COVID-19 vaccines for their first and second dose were more likely to experience mild to moderate symptoms compared to those who received standard, non-mixed schedules, according to early findings led by researchers at the University of…
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Ohio residents who've gotten the COVID-19 vaccine will have a chance to win a $1 million prize, Gov. Mike DeWine announced May 12. Vaccinated residents under the age of 18 will also have a chance to win a full scholarship…
The good news we all need — after more than a year of difficult news, it appears that the U.S. pandemic may be turning a corner.
About 30 million Americans who haven't gotten the COVID-19 vaccine cite a number of practical barriers, not vaccine hesitancy, as the reason they haven't gotten the shot, The New York Times reported May 12.
Most Americans over 65 had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose as of early April, but vaccination rates still varied greatly by geography, social factors and race, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published May 11.
While India has only reported a few cases of Mucormycosis, a deadly infection known as "black fungus," across the last decade, tens of thousands have surfaced within the last month as the country faces the world's most severe COVID-19 outbreak,…