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Federal pandemic dollars funded insurance for low-income families during COVID-19. Children’s advocates fear when that money goes away, the percentage will rise again.
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The country’s largest children’s hospital system raised $11 million to add a series of behavioral health resources.
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For some local relief programs, a lack of staffing, political support and effective community outreach got in the way of spending federal funds to prevent evictions, a new report found. More than $30 million went unspent and had to be returned.
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At the start of the pandemic in 2020, many governments issued mask requirements. That was not the case in Mexico.
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The treatments were highly popular earlier in the pandemic. One by one, they got knocked out by more convenient, less expensive treatment options, and new COVID variants.
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Two reports from the CDC provided details on which groups have the highest death rates and which states are seeing the largest numbers.
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Nobody wants to infect their friends and family, but do you really have to keep isolating at day 12, 13 or beyond? Unfortunately — and perhaps unsurprisingly — the science is not entirely settled.
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Infection-fighting B cells appear to have a poorer "memory" of the COVID virus in those who've suffered severe COVID-19.
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New research out of South Africa and the UK have found that the omicron variant dramatically reduces vaccine effectiveness in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. However, there are ways to minimize omicron's impact in the United States.
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The emergence of the delta variant has presented a daunting challenge in the fight against the COVID virus, made worse by a pandemic of bad information. Much of that bad information is being spread intentionally by people who know it's false; it's disinformation. People across the country consume that disinformation and — believing it's true — pass it on. In this episode of Petrie Dish, we explore the medical misinformation and disinformation that are fueling anti-mask and anti-vaccine beliefs that are driving the delta surge.