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Employers, Insurers Push to Make Virtual Visits Regular Care

(Associated Press) Make telemedicine your first choice for most doctor visits. That's the message some U.S. employers and insurers are sending with a new...

Free Rides, Doughnuts, Beer, Savings Bonds: Vaccine Incentives Get Creative

(Associated Press) Free beer, pot and doughnuts. Savings bonds. A chance to win an all-terrain vehicle. Places around the U.S. are offering incentives to...

From Scarcity to Abundance: US Faces Calls to Share Vaccines

(Associated Press) Victor Guevara knows people his age have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in many countries. His own relatives in Houston have been inoculated. But...

Fauci Says He Expects J&J Vaccine to Resume Later This Week

(Associated Press) The United States will likely move to resume Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine this coming week, possibly with restrictions or broader warnings...

Big Pharma CEO: ‘Annual Revaccination’ Likely Needed for COVID Strains

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) People will likely need a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within one year, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a recently released...

Will You Need a COVID-19 Vaccine Passport?

(Associated Press) What is a COVID-19 vaccine passport, and will I need one? "Vaccine passports," or vaccine certificates, are documents that show you were vaccinated...

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to COVID Vaccines

(The New Republic) On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership....

Reforms Follow Deadly Year in New York Nursing Homes

(Associated Press) — After a deadly year in New York's nursing homes, state lawmakers have passed legislation intended to hold facility operators more accountable...

Boston Hospital to Start Offering ‘Preferential Care Based on Race’

(Headline USA) A Boston hospital announced this week that it will begin offering “preferential care based on race” and “race-explicit interventions” in an effort to apply...

Majority of Hospitals Not Providing Pricing Transparency

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) An estimated 46 million people — or 18% of the country — would be unable to pay for health care...