Iowa still seeing community spread of COVID-19
The state of the pandemic in Iowa is far from the bleak highs of cases, hospitalizations and deaths seen in the winter. The two-week totals of Iowans testing positive, being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 are all fractions of what they once were.
Nearly 59% of the state s adults have at least one dose of vaccine and nearly half of adult Iowans are fully vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But a positive trend is not the finish line.
The Brown School of Public Health lists every Iowa county as in the community spread stage of the pandemic or worse, where it should be assumed the COVID-causing coronavirus is circulating in the community.
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Brown-based IMPACT Collaboratory expands massive effort to track COVID-19 vaccine effects
A $1.4 million federal grant will enable the research team to add customer data from Walgreens, doubling the scope of the largest monitoring system of safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccinations for elderly people.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $1.4 million grant to a research team based at Brown University and Hebrew SeniorLife to partner with Walgreens to add customer data to a massive monitoring system of the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination for Medicare beneficiaries.
The tracking system, established by the same team of researchers in February, was already the first big data effort to combine vaccination and pharmacy records with Medicare claims. Adding data from 13.2 million Walgreens customers to the information from more than 13 million CVS customers will effectively double the size of the securely monitored da
At the University’s Commencement 2021 celebration, the Brown faculty presented their peers Vincent Mor and Julie Strandberg with Rosenberger Medals of Honor, awarded just 33 times in more than a century.
Michigan unveils reopening plan tied to COVID-19 vaccination rates
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Michigan governor talks about spring surge of COVID cases in her state
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer explains why she has resisted calls to shut down her state, which is experiencing a surge in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, including among young adults.Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via Imagn Content Services via USA Today
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer unveiled a reopening plan Thursday that will tie loosened restrictions to COVID-19 vaccination rate milestones, as the state starts to emerge from a surge in cases and hospitalizations.
So far, nearly half of residents ages 16 and up have gotten their first shots and about 36% are fully vaccinated, said the governor, whose goal is to reach 70% of the population fully vaccinated to near herd immunity.