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Scientists say the pandemic will only end in the U.S. when we achieve what’s called herd immunity. Play with our simulations to see how immunity can stop an outbreak in its tracks.

Patients and families at a children’s hospital are being asked to not take showers, KUT reports. They were also told the toilets can’t flush, and staff are changing linens only as needed.

A community health center is now immunizing the local homeless population. But vaccination logistics, already complex, are compounded by the additional barriers in communication and transportation.

As temperatures drop around the country, unhoused people are especially vulnerable. NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks to hotel shelter worker Yusra Murad about the challenge of keeping people safe and warm.

Even after getting one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, some people are having trouble getting their second shot. Here’s how to maximize the likelihood you’ll get both doses, to be fully immunized.

The prize committee said Dr. Anthony Fauci, long-time head of the United States’ leading infectious diseases research institute, “is the consummate model of leadership and impact in public health.”

The federal insurance exchange, HealthCare.gov, has reopened for changes and new sign-ups until May 15. But states with their own exchanges have different rules. Here’s what you need to know.

Even when forced online by the pandemic, music therapy sessions continue to help patients in some ways talk therapy can’t. “Music is this portal,” says one therapist and COVID-19 long-hauler.

Without federal tracking, no one knows how many people in disability group housing have fallen ill or died from the virus. And few states are prioritizing them for vaccination.

The same electronic systems used to record when patients get a physical or go to the ER are also used to log data when coronavirus vaccines are given. But the systems don’t share information easily.