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[57] The US military will require service members to get the COVID-19 vaccine by September 15, 2021. In response to the vaccine mandate, an Army staff sergeant and a Marine staff sergeant sued various federal government agencies to grant exemptions on mandatory COVID vaccinations for those who've had the virus. [ 37 ]
To address the question of why some racial groups are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the CDC compiled a list of factors linking a racial group to increased risk of COVID-19 exposure. [31] These factors are well-linked to the social determinants of health, the social contributors that influence heath outcomes for a particular group ...
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States is an ongoing mass immunization campaign for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine on December 10, 2020, [7] and mass vaccinations began four days later.
At peak, as many as 25,000 prisoners across the United States tested positive for COVID-19 in a single week. [60] By June 2021 more than 500,000 prisoners had tested positive for COVID-19; [60] and as of December 2021, about 34 of every 100 people in US prisons had been infected with COVID-19, almost 4-times the rate of the national population.
The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas . [ 3 ]
More than 1 million children may have been affected by long COVID in 2023, new federal data published Monday suggests. Long COVID, a condition that occurs when patients still have symptoms at ...
The ongoing youth mental health crisis refers to the significant rise in mental health challenges among adolescents and young adults in the US, [1] Canada, [2] the UK, [3] and Europe. [4] The trend began in the early 2010s and escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] Notable issues include increasing rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm ...
For the first time, the Vermont State Youth Council advised the Legislature on policies impacting young Vermonters. Here's what they had to say. For the first time, the Vermont State Youth Council ...