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By SILVIA FOSTER-FRAU | The Washington Post | Published: April 10, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WASHINGTON — Racism is a public health threat that "affects the health of our entire nation," the director of America's top public health agency said Friday. In a statement, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky vowed to invest more in minority communities, t...

As the new Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, the health care community is trying to ward off misconceptions about it. The vaccine's one-shot feature may be what wins many over.

Health Centers Receive Vaccines – And Prepare for the Work to Come As safety net health center staff vaccinate employees, they're also preparing to administer vaccines to the nation's most vulnerable communities. Dr. Lyle Ignace, chief executive officer of the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center in Wisconsin, receives his first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo courtesy of the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center) When Urban Health Plan, a community health center in New York, found out that they were getting the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, things happened fast. Once they learned that they�...

POLITICO Few guardrails to keep people from cutting in line for Covid shots As soon as more doses become available to wider categories of people, much of the immunization program will rely on the honor system. A nurse holds a dose of the Pzifer COVID-19 vaccine before administering it to an employee in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Link Copied The nation's system for distributing coronavirus vaccines lacks safeguards to ensure the next wave of doses reaches the most critical workers and at-risk patients rather than star athletes or the well-connected. There’s little...

part solomon, one part semantics. president obama rushed to resolve an election year battle over religion, health insurance and birth control. under new rules that he announced today, employees of faith-based institutions will still have contraceptives covered by their insurance plans, but the cost will be picked up by the insurance companies, not by the religious institutions. so they can say they don't pay for the contraceptives, but their employees can still get them for free. norah o'donnell is at the white house tonight. norah? >> reporter: scott, this is clearly a change in pol...