Here's a roundup of recent news stories about the pandemic and vaccination efforts.
Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., introduces legislation to provide continued funding to rural clinics that have suffered financially during the pandemic. Read more here.
The American Hospital Association warns that, without continued government support, many rural hospitals will shutter because of additional financial strain brought on by the pandemic. Read more here.
Traveling nurses say "war doesn't even compare" to their jobs during the pandemic. Read more here.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is boosting the reimbursement to providers for administering coronavirus vaccinations. Read more here.
Pandemic trauma haunts health-care workers. Read more here.
Covid-19 cases among nursing home staffers have fallen 83% from late December, despite vaccine hesitancy. Read more here.
A Virginia farmer is getting nationwide attention for planting one flag in his fields for each Virginian who has died from Covid-19. Read more here.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released long-awaited guidelines for how vaccinated people may safely interact with others. Read more here.
Here's a good explainer about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Read more here.
Independent pharmacists, many of them rural, fill gaps in vaccination efforts. Read more here.
Fighting vaccine hesitancy means addressing "a constellation of motivations, insecurities, reasonable fears, and less reasonable conspiracy theories." Read more here.
The pandemic has magnified health disparities in Appalachian Ohio. Read more here.
A federal program is filling an education gap for rural migrant students during the pandemic. Read more here.
The number of people hesitant to get a coronavirus vaccine is dropping rapidly. Read more here.
A focus group of Trump voters discussed their reasons for hesitating to get the coronavirus vaccine. Read more here.
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