Clinics for kids, ban on pens, changes to benefits: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports
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Montgomery: After COVID-19 disrupted two school years, lawmakers on Monday voted to delay an upcoming state requirement for third graders to pass a reading test before moving up to the fourth grade. The House of Representatives voted 68-27 for the bill by Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, that would delay the promotion requirement, now set to take effect next year, by two years. The bill now goes to Gov. Kay Ivey. The high-stakes promotion requirement is set to take effect at the end of the 2021-2022 school year, but supporters argued it would be unfair to force the requirement on students who were out of the traditional classroom for long stretches during the pandemic. The bill would move the implementation to the 2023-2024 school year. “These kids have had 14 months of not normal schooling. All they are asking for is a little c
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2021-05-18 22:36:08 GMT2021-05-19 06:36:08(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Xinhua) The COVID-19 vaccination rates in rural America lagged behind urban counties during the first four months of the nation s concerted immunization push as challenges such as lack of access and vaccine hesitancy persisted, a new study has found.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis released on Tuesday found that 39 percent of rural adults received at least one vaccine dose, compared with 46 percent of urban adults. Rural vaccination rates also were lower than urban rates among younger adults, seniors, men and women.
The nation s hundreds of small towns are vulnerable. Not only do rural communities often lack the health care resources of bigger cities, they also have a population more susceptible to severe outcomes, Alan Morgan, CEO of National Rural Health Association, was quoted on Tuesday by USA Today as saying.
has to begin at the local level.”
County classification data for where vaccinated people received their first does, between December 14, 2020, and April 10, 2021. (Source: CDC via Courthouse News)
(CN) Researchers announced an astonishing gap Tuesday between the number of adults vaccinated against Covid-19 in rural counties as compared with their urban counterparts.
Collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the data on vaccinated people aged 18 and older in 49 states and Washington, D.C., shows that 39% of adults in rural counties were vaccinated as of April 10, compared with about 46% of adults in urban counties. CDC officials said those trends held true around the country, including throughout various age groups and across genders.
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