The emergence of the highly transmissible omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 should serve as a wake-up call for the U.S. to reinvest in new vaccines, therapeutics and surveillance efforts, Eric Topol, MD, founder and director of Scripps Research Translational …
State lawmakers say their health care goals for the new legislative session are to lower costs and improve access to care. They’ll have to grapple with a full slate of other issues, as well.
The CDC has lowered its estimate of omicron subvariant XBB.1.5’s prevalence in the U.S., now saying the highly transmissible strain accounts for about 28 percent of COVID-19 cases.
Flu activity remains high, but continues to decline in most parts of the country, the CDC’s latest FluView report shows.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital is the latest to report a rise in severe strep A infections, according to a Jan. 5 report from CBS affiliate WWMT.
The omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 has gained national dominance in a matter of weeks, though its prevalence still varies greatly by region.
New Jersey has set aside $15 million for healthcare facilities that offer a full spectrum of reproductive care to use for facility upgrades and security enhancements.
The year-end spending bill passed by Congress in late December contains a wide array of health-related provisions, including a structure for states to begin to disenroll people on Medicaid whose coverage has been maintained through the pandemic. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is taking steps to make the abortion pill more widely available. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Mark Kreidler, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature about a billing mix-up that took about a year to sort out.
Health officials are keeping a close eye on omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 due to its rapid growth in the U.S.
The U.S. may see a higher amount of flu deaths this season compared to past years, preliminary data from the CDC suggests.
