Public Health

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may infect cells in the mouth, along with primary sites of infection like the upper airways and lungs, according to a study published March 25 in Nature Medicine. 

The number of daily COVID-19 tests administered nationwide has declined 35 percent since mid-January, in part because healthcare officials and systems are focusing more on vaccination efforts, reports The New York Times.

About 1.4 million fewer people received care for tuberculosis in 2020 than in 2019, according to a World Health Organization report published March 22. 

Nationwide, Blue Cross Blue Shield companies are undertaking several initiatives to improve COVID-19 vaccine distribution in their communities. 

Oregon and Ohio health officials are monitoring 48 people for Ebola who recently visited West Africa, though both health departments said the risk is low. 

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in the U.S. surpassed 30 million March 25, according to data from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University.

Officials in more than 40 states have said they will meet or beat President Joe Biden's goal of opening COVID-19 vaccinations to every adult by May 1, with at least 30 states aiming for dates in March or April, reports…

Two competing forces are currently playing out in the U.S. that could dictate what the pandemic's coming months look like. As more transmissible coronavirus variants sweep the nation, health officials are in a race to vaccinate as many people as…

As a prominent epidemiologist, member of President Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board and a frequent expert commentator on the pandemic, Michael Osterholm, PhD, is skilled at transforming complex information into metaphors digestible for the general public.

About half of eligible staff at New York City-based Harlem Hospital have received a COVID-19 vaccine, reflecting wariness in the Black community and prompting conversations about how leaders can acknowledge these fears while still encouraging vaccination, reports The New York…