Public Health

The CDC's COVID-19 data tracker now allows users to view case and trend data for different demographic groups, a change made March 23. 

The idea of gaining "herd immunity" against COVID-19, meaning enough people will eventually be immune to SARS-CoV-2 to stop it from spreading, is starting to look unlikely, according to Nature.

Two recent studies found few people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 become infected, The New York Times reported March 23. 

The unethical 40-year Tuskegee syphilis study is often cited as a reason for vaccine hesitancy among Black Americans. Critics point to several reasons this is problematic, according to an NPR report. 

Providers are seeing more and more "long-haulers" experiencing lingering COVID-19 symptoms or entirely new symptoms weeks after recovery. 

Wisconsin's $15 million COVID-19 overflow hospital in West Allis has closed after serving about 200 patients, according to a March 19 news release from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. 

Federal race and ethnicity COVID-19 data isn't comprehensive enough to accurately represent the pandemic experience in the U.S., reports The COVID Tracking Project.

The U.S. healthcare system must ensure crisis standards of care do not exacerbate racial inequities, three emergency medicine physicians wrote in a March 19 commentary published in JAMA Network Open.

The seven-day average number of COVID-19 vaccines administered daily was 2.5 million as of March 18, an 12.1 percent increase from the previous week's average, according to the CDC's COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review published March 19.  

Adults are not the only ones at risk of developing prolonged symptoms linked to COVID-19. Early research shows cases of "long COVID" are rare among children, but are increasing as they return to in-person learning, sports and other activities, reports…