Public Health

The U.S. is administering more than 2 million COVID-19 vaccines daily, according to the weekly average tracked by The New York Times.   

The COVID Tracking Project will end its daily updates and data compilation March 7, with the project officially coming to a close in May.

U.S. adults aged 25-64 have been dying at increasing rates since 1990, according to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published March 2. 

The White House will work with health insurers to make sure COVID-19 vaccines are distributed to high-risk members, according to Politico.

Six hospitals that make up Dignity Health Southern California recently awarded $787,475 in funding to 19 local nonprofits as part of its Community Grants program.

More than 15 percent of Americans, or 51,755,447 people, have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose as of March 2, reports the CDC. 

About one in four people, or nearly 2.5 billion, will have some level of hearing loss by 2050, according to the World Health Organization's first World Report on Hearing published March 2. 

Congress is launching an investigation into concierge healthcare provider One Medical following allegations that the company has been administering COVID-19 vaccinations to ineligible patients and those with ties to company leadership, reports NPR.

Any resident older than 18 can receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Gila County, Ariz., one of the first places in the U.S. to offer vaccinations to the general public, reports The New York Times.

Global COVID-19 cases rose for the first time in six weeks, World Health Organization officials said during a March 1 news conference.