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More than 153,000 residents of the country's nursing homes and assisted living centers have died of COVID-19, accounting for 36% of the U.S. pandemic death toll, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say former President Donald Trump bears at least some blame for the Capitol insurrection, and about half say the Sen
West Virginia, normally overlooked on the national stage, has quietly had the most successful early vaccine rollout.
Mississippi's state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, said the partnership "has been a fiasco." The state has committed 90,000 vaccine doses to the effort, but the pharmacies had administered only 5% of those shots as of Thursday, Dobbs said. Pharmacy officials told him they're having trouble finding enough people to staff the program. Dobbs pointed to neighboring Alabama and Louisiana, which he says are vaccinating long-term care residents at four times the rate of Mississippi. "We're getting a lot of angry people because it's going so slowly, and we're unhappy too," he said. Many of the nur...
West Virginia has emerged as an unlikely success in the nation’s otherwise chaotic coronavirus vaccine rollout.