Glen Pyle and Jennifer Huang, PBS News Hour, Jan. 18, 2022 The heart has played a central role in COVID-19 since the beginning. Cardiovascular conditions are among the highest risk factors for hospitalization. A significant number of patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infections …
What you need to know about the free at-home COVID tests promised by the Biden administration
Staff, PBS News Hour, Jan. 2, 2022 President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free to people to use at home. But despite high public …
How effective are COVID-19 vaccines against omicron?
Melissa Hawkins, PBS News Hour, Dec. 16, 2021 The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine efficacy and effectiveness. These are not the same thing. And as time goes …