Amid hope for Pfizer vaccine, states grapple with distribution
A COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. may be on the horizon, but the cost of distributing vaccines across all 50 states and who will pay for that operation remains a...
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Doctors fight ‘infodemic’ with Americans seeing virus as a hoax
There's a no shortage of what President Donald Trump might call fake news about the coronavirus floating around social media, with plenty of it coming from his own Twitter account....
Flu season will be a test run for the US’s biggest-ever vaccine campaign
This fall, the U.S. will need to vaccinate huge numbers of Americans in the middle of a public-health crisis. It will also be a valuable dry run should a coronavirus...
CDC chief sees urgency to cut COVID rate to avoid flu collision
NEW YORK — The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that many regions in the U.S. need to drive the rate of COVID-19 cases sharply lower...
Hospital workers make masks from office supplies amid US shortage
SEATTLE — Hospital workers in Washington state have been making protective medical gear out of office supplies and other run-of-the-mill materials as they deal with a severe shortage of equipment...
Surviving an opioid overdose may soon depend on where you live
In southwest Ohio, people die from drug overdoses at more than double the national rate. In the future, whether someone survives could hinge on what county they are in. The...
Join the 1 percent and live a decade longer
The wealthiest Americans can expect to live at least a decade longer than the poorest - and that gap, as with income inequality, is growing ever wider. New research in...
Guns, drugs, and car crashes: why Americans die younger
The average American will die as many as two years sooner than if they lived in Western Europe or Japan. This can be attributed, in part, to three of the...