If the FDA accepts that recommendation, health care workers — who are mostly women — could start getting immunizations within days.
Rochelle Walensky, who heads the infectious disease unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, will shape how the government distributes coronavirus vaccines.
None of the vaccines have yet been tested during pregnancy, creating a conundrum for the advisory committee recommending who gets immunized first.
School closures and the struggling economy have created a national hunger crisis — and experts say it will only get worse as the pandemic deepens this winter.
If passed, the COVID Community Care Act would funnel emergency funding to Black, Latinx and Native American communities that have been especially hard hit by the pandemic.
Vaccine trials have had promising results, but a lack of testing makes it unclear if they'll be safe for pregnant people.
The winner died before the election. The runner-up wants to join the 31 women in the state’s legislature.
As COVID-19 cases climb again, cancer screenings are likely to plummet once more.
A new report linked pregnancy to higher rates of complications, including death, from COVID-19 — a reversal from previous federal advisories.
The issue has been largely absent from the debates and campaign rallies at a time when parents seem to care about it most. But as with so many topics, the pandemic has made it political.