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COVID is surging, but new vaccines have been approved. Here’s what to know
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USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack sent out a letter to the governor's of 44 states that are not meeting federal standards for processing SNAP applications.
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The pandemic has reignited long-standing turf wars among health professions, and state lawmakers are caught in the middle.
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A federal emergency declaration that has allowed children to receive continuous Medicaid coverage throughout the pandemic could end soon, and health providers are worried.
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For many patients with long COVID, life doesn’t go back to normal. But they aren’t alone. They join a community of chronic illness patients who hope the money being poured into studying long COVID will have a wider benefit.
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While COVID may not be top of mind for people anymore, the pandemic isn't over. And for many people who have had COVID, neither is their illness.
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So-called cryptic lineages may hold the key to better understand how the virus that causes COVID mutates to evade our immune systems.
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Congress rejected pleas from the White House to pump more money into programs that ensure COVID tests, treatments and vaccines are free for everyone. Public health experts warn the funding cuts will worsen health disparities and hurt those who are already most vulnerable.
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Two years into the pandemic, data shows that the toll on children’s mental health has been profound. Children of frontline health care workers had a front row seat to the pandemic’s scariest moments from day one.
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U.S. hospitalization rates more than doubled during the latest omicron wave compared to the prior delta wave, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black adults were more likely to end up hospitalized than White adults, regardless of their vaccination status.