Health Sep 03 4 takeaways about Americans’ COVID views at summer’s end While taming the coronavirus will continue to depend on widespread adoption of key public health measures, the United States is still confronting the gulf between those who believe that something like getting a vaccine is a personal decision versus those…
Politics Sep 02 Here’s who Americans blame for U.S. failures in Afghanistan The chaotic evacuation of more than 120,000 Americans, U.S. allies and Afghans from Kabul seems to have cost President Joe Biden significant public approval as the nation nears the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Health Aug 17 WATCH: How to keep kids safe from COVID-19 in school Will everyone wear a face mask? How many children and staff will be present in each classroom? Do school administrators have resources to improve ventilation and air flow?…
Health Aug 13 Who can ask about your vaccine status? Here’s what you need to know about HIPAA HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protects people’s private health information from being shared by certain health care entities without patient consent. But this 1996 law is far more narrowly defined than most people realize.
Health Aug 11 Tensions over school mask mandates roil this Mississippi town The simple back-to-school precaution of masking has become a source of controversy in Mississippi and around the country as millions of students prepare to enter the academic year and rates of COVID-19 infection soar.
Health Aug 04 As COVID cases surge again, here’s how vaccinations are rising With the more transmissible delta variant fueling steep spikes in places where vaccination rates are low, experts insist more must be done.
Health Jul 29 Breakthrough COVID infections show ‘the unvaccinated are now putting the vaccinated at risk’ Occasional breakthroughs are expected with any vaccine, but more transmissible variants spread among so many unvaccinated people in the United States has placed greater strain on highly effective and safe COVID-19 vaccines.
Health Jul 21 COVID patients are flooding this hospital. Again. Arkansas is among the top five states for new infections, and still has one of the lowest rates of vaccination nationwide.
Health Jul 15 As 9 out of 10 U.S. children remain unvaccinated, Surgeon General pushes back against misinformation Public health experts fear that the more the virus spreads among the unvaccinated, the more chance that variants could mutate and unravel progress made against the pandemic in pockets of the country where the vaccination rate remains dangerously low.
Health Jul 09 Why the delta variant is causing an explosion of cases among the unvaccinated Recent federal data shows that more than half of all new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. were traced to the delta variant, which is believed to be passed more easily to others than any that has come before it.