In another twist on covid vaccine hesitancy, blood centers say they are starting to hear from transfusion patients demanding blood from unvaccinated donors. Experts say the option is neither practical nor medically justifiable.
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Thousands of young children lost parents to Covid. Where’s help for them?
More than 46,000 children in the U.S. have lost a parent to Covid-19. Families say finding even basic grief counseling has been difficult and there’s been no coordinated effort to help these children access services or benefits.
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Have a case of a COVID variant? No one is going to tell you
As experts race to get an approved test for covid variants, officials are severely restricted from sharing information about the cases. That makes it harder to protect others.
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Why the U.S. is underestimating COVID-19 reinfection
Hundreds of Americans suspect they contracted COVID early in the pandemic and recovered, only to get infected again months later. But because the U.S. does so little genetic sequencing of COVID samples, we don’t know much about reinfection rates.