covid-19 vaccine Why A Doctor Reached Out to Nicki Minaj About Her COVID Vaccine Tweets Dr. Uché Blackstock says she wanted to give Nicki Minaj some solid information about the COVID vaccine after seeing the artist’s social media posts linking strange health outcomes to the shot. Blackstock says society needs better responses to misinformation and communities need access to trusted messengers.
schools These Florida Parents Want Virtual School Back, So They're Suing Ron DeSantis Robyn and John McCarthy’s son has asthma but has to go to school in-person in Miami-Dade County, Florida. There has already been a COVID-19 exposure in class. But the only virtual option available would require giving up a coveted spot in a prestigious magnet school. “It’s basically like if you go in person, we expose him to a dangerous deadly...
covid-19 vaccine COVID Burnout is Real – But We Have to Stay Vigilant Health care workers are seeing the same stories over and over again – unvaccinated patients coming in with COVID and eventually wishing they had received the vaccine. It’s hard knowing it’s preventable – but we have to keep fighting in case future waves of the virus hit, Dr. John Torres says.
hurricanes How Louisiana Hospitals Weathered Ida and Cared For COVID Patients The power went out in the critical care unit. The winds were howling. But still, the staff at Thibodaux Health System in Louisiana were able to care for the coronavirus patients as Hurricane Ida damaged the state. CEO Greg Stock talks about how the hospitals held up.
covid-19 vaccine We Can't Get Back to Normal Until We Unify, Says CDC Director “A lot of this depends on how well and how much of the American public wants to unify together against that common foe,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tells NBCLX about finally ending the fight against COVID-19. First Americans have to overcome their differences when it comes to the coronavirus vaccines, masks and other public health measures that limit spread of...
COVID-19 in pregnant women Fauci's Boss to Pregnant Women: ‘This Is Not a Time to Be Unvaccinated' NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins has a message for the unvaccinated: "Let's hit the reset button on all the misinformation you might have heard. Look at the data and I think you'll be convinced this is something you want."
covid-19 vaccine Only 23% of Pregnant Women Got the Vaccine – And More Need To COVID-19 is more dangerous for a pregnant woman, who is also more likely to be infected with the infectious Delta variant spreading. Yet only 23 percent of pregnant women have gotten the shot, according to the CDC. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, says pregnant women shouldn’t wait – and get the shot to protect...
covid-19 vaccine How the Delta Variant is Messing With Our Vaccine Goals We thought we could control the pandemic with about 70% of the country vaccinated. But with the Delta variant leading to case surges even in highly vaccinated countries, that changes the math. We may need 90% to take the COVID-19 vaccine to really wrangle with this variant, says Alabama epidemiologist Dr. Suzanne Judd.
covid-19 vaccine Your COVID Questions Answered, With Dr. John Torres What do we know about the origins of the COVID-19 virus? And how long until we’re out of this? NBC News senior medical correspondent Dr. John Torres breaks it down for us.
pfizer vaccine Full Approval of Pfizer Vaccine Paves the Way for More Mandates Now that the FDA has given the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine its stamp of full approval, doctors hope that some vaccine skeptics will finally be convinced to get the shot. As NBC News medical contributor Dr. Kavita Patel explains, the approval is also likely to lead to more vaccine mandates by employers.
