Public Health

No state saw more than 500 COVID-19 hospitalizations per million people Feb. 2, the first time that's occurred since Nov. 2, reports The COVID Tracking Project. 

This global COVID-19 pandemic, unlike anything we've experienced in our lifetimes, is having a profound impact and transforming lifestyles and business models everywhere. Healthcare is no exception.

Black and Latino communities are being bypassed in the U.S. vaccine rollout, including in states that haven't released race and ethnicity data yet, according to a Politico analysis.

A team of researchers at Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center launched an animal surveillance program to determine which animal populations may carry COVID-19 and how it may affect human transmission. 

Nearly 13 million people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in the first month they were available, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Feb. 1.

Some people who have experienced symptomatic COVID-19 infections have reported intense side effects after one vaccine dose, leading researchers to believe two doses may not be necessary, reports The New York Times.  

Over the last week, COVID-19 hospitalizations have dropped by at least 10 percent in 38 states, reports The COVID Tracking Project.  

The CDC is now aiming to sequence 7,000 coronavirus samples per week to detect new variants, marking a large boost from the 251 samples sequenced during the week of Jan. 10, The New York Times reported Feb. 1. 

New York City closed vaccine sites in the metro area as a major winter storm hit the Northeast.

COVID-19 test positivity fell in every U.S. region in the week ending Jan. 23, representing the second consecutive week of decline, according to the CDC's latest COVIDView report published Jan. 29.