The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday published data listing the most common side effects people reported after receiving Covid vaccine boosters. A CDC advisory committee is meeting Thursday to discuss booster shots of Moderna's and J&J's vaccine…
Read MoreBangladesh begins vaccinating Rohingya refugees as virus surges
Bangladesh's government and aid agencies started vaccinating Rohingya refugees as a virus surge raises health risks in the camps where over 1 million people who fled Myanmar are sheltering. The delta variant is driving an infection surge across Bangladesh in…
Read MoreIndia accounts for 1 in 3 new Covid cases being recorded. Here is its second wave in 5 charts
Cases started rising in February, when India reported an average of about 10,000 infections a day. But the situation progressively worsened in April, ending the month by repeatedly setting new global records for daily cases. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government…
Read MoreIndia overtakes Brazil to become the second-worst hit country as Covid cases soar
India reported more than 168,000 new cases over a 24-hour period on Monday, according to health ministry data. Around 83% of the new infections were reported in 10 states, including the western state of Maharashtra, home to India's financial capital…
Read MoreBiden Administration Announces 500,000 New Sign-Ups At HealthCare.gov
So this is what it looks like when the people in charge of the Affordable Care Act want it to reach as many people as possible. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday announced that, between mid-February and…
Read MoreAs Coronavirus Bears Down, A Private Equity Deal Haunts A Top Puerto Rican Hospital
As the coronavirus pandemic reached Puerto Rico’s shores in mid-March, the island enacted one of the strictest lockdowns in the United States, installing a nightly curfew and threatening violators with fines of up to $5,000 and six months in jail….
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