Category: Washington Post

For immigrants, IDs prove to be a barrier to a dose of protection

Immigrants have been turned away from pharmacies and other places after being asked for driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers or health insurance cards — documentation required by neither states nor the federal government but often requested at va…

I’m vaccinated, but I’m really not ready to leave my pandemic cocoon

Nearly half of all Americans are worried about being with people again, too.

In a change, patients can now read the clinical notes written by their physicians

Supporters say this will help people understand their ailments and treatments. But some doctors worry about misinterpretation of their diagnoses and judgments.

The complex, harrowing story of immigrants’ experiences with health care over the past 130 years

“Outside/Inside,” a digital exhibition, documents how health became a pretext for discrimination.

States have been slow to order allotted vaccine doses, spurring calls for new approach

Pressure on the federal government to rethink its allocation strategy has mounted as access to immunization expands nationwide but new infections are concentrated in just a handful of states, including Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Florida and Pennsy…

CDC ramps up scrutiny of rare post-vaccination ‘breakthrough infections’

The precise number of these breakthrough cases is unknown, but figures released by states suggest it is at least several thousand.

Trump officials celebrated efforts to change CDC reports on coronavirus, emails show

Political appointees also tried to blunt scientific findings they deemed unfavorable to Trump, according to new documents from House probe

Rise of coronavirus variants will define the next phase of the pandemic in the U.S.

Vaccines are effective against the three major new strains of the virus, but some places say they need more to fight highly transmissible types.

Supporters tout anti-parasite drug as covid-19 treatment, but skeptics call it the ‘new hydroxychloroquine’

An NIH trial may settle debate over ivermectin; officials warn people not to take animal formulation of drug.

‘A moment of peril’: Biden sees infections climb on his watch

Possible ‘fourth wave’ could erase hard-won gains.