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COVID-19 cases are on the rise, especially in counties with the lowest vaccination rates, state data show.
Booster shots are likely to be here before long because of the outdated, 60-year-old basic standard the Food and Drug Administration uses to authorize medicines for sale.
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The vaccination rate target for minorities – as well as for whites – recedes into the distance as fewer and fewer people are receiving shots each day.
The question for health experts is not if the latest and most contagious strain of COVID-19 will spread through communities, but how large the outbreak will be.
A Portland woman has helped people overcome their fears and surmount obstacles in a drive to increase the vaccination rate.
Experts say the Delta variant is 40% to 50% more transmissible than other variants, which means that unvaccinated people can more easily catch it and vaccinated people face a higher risk of a breakthrough infection.
Brown faced questions about lagging vaccination rates among people of color, with about 45% of Black people, Latinos and Native Americans vaccinated compared with 60% for whites.
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Infectious disease experts warn there is the potential for flareups with the presence of highly infectious variants and the risk of others emerging that could evade vaccines.
As the number of people who have had COVID grows, medical experts are trying to determine when it’s safe for them to have elective surgery.
Officials are engineering a series of expansions to Medicaid that may bolster protections for millions of low-income Americans and bring more people into the program.
