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Grand Rapids Public Schools announced their decision to extend their mask mandate for preschool to 12th grade until the end of the school year.

Counties in the US at Highest Risk for COVID Harm Often Have Lowest Vaccination Rates Ryan Gabrielson (ProPublica)  0 The vaccine rollout was meant to prioritize vulnerable communities, but four months of data shows healthier — and often wealthier — counties have been faster to vaccinate.   As the U.S. rushes to vaccinate its population against the coronavirus, most counties with the sickest residents are lagging behind and making only incremental progress reaching their most vulnerable populations.   A ProPublica analysis of county data maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Cont...

First-of-its-Kind Study Found Infants of Socially Vulnerable Mothers were at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Infection BOSTON – At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, very little was known about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Over the past year, more evidence has become available on how the virus is transmitted, who is at the greatest risk and best practices to prevent exposure. Yet questions still remain about how the virus impacts the health of pregnant women and newborns. In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, physician-researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ...

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January 29, 2021 A vitamin D status test can help you and your healthcare team tell if you'd benefit from a supplement. Darius Simeon/Getty Images Vitamin D is important to the health of every system in the body, and yet many people do not get the recommended amount. “Many, many Americans — almost half — are vitamin D deficient,” says David O. Meltzer, MD, PhD, the chief of hospital medicine at University of Chicago Medicine. “But we know that in excess of three quarters of people with darker skin, including African Americans and Hispanics, are vitamin D deficient.” Now a new spot...