Older women lag older men in COVID vaccination rates, new polling says
The Kaiser Family Foundation data on the disparity in adults 65 and older comes a day after Biden said 90 percent of adults would be eligible for a vaccine in just a few weeks.
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Dr. Rachel Levine makes transgender history in confirmation as assistant secretary of HHS
Levine is the first ever Senate-confirmed trans official in U.S. history, but she faced anti-trans sentiments on her road to the historic confirmation.
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'From bad to worse': How COVID-19 could undo gender equity efforts across the globe
The United States anticipates immunizing most adults by summer. But vaccines are far less available in other countries.
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Wyoming's flood of anti-abortion bills reveal what's happening across the country, experts say
Wyoming has filed eight anti-abortion bills this session, a record number in recent history for the state legislature.
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Xavier Becerra confirmed as nation's first Latinx health secretary
Becerra, most recently California's attorney general, won support from reproductive rights groups and organizers for transgender equality.
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How the COVID stimulus bill could help fight pregnancy-related deaths
Letting states extend Medicaid eligibility for postpartum people could be lifesaving, experts told The 19th.
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A year into the pandemic, LGBTQ+ life and death remains largely invisible
LGBTQ+ people face myriad health disparities that put them at higher risk for complications from the virus. So why don’t we know how COVID has affected them?
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Her son couldn’t breathe. Advocating for equitable health care made this mom feel like she couldn’t either.
Amira Carson-Carey has spent the past year fighting for equitable health care for her infant son — from repeat heart surgeries to COVID infections — amid a pandemic and a summer of racial reckoning.
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How Alaska managed to vaccinate residents at higher rates than any other state
In a conversation with The 19th, Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Dr. Anne Zink, chief medical officer, discuss the state’s successful vaccine distribution and concerns about a post-pandemic world.
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“There’s so much death around”: Eight women reflect on one year of COVID-19
A year after the start of the pandemic, women describe their lives on the front lines, the losses they’ve endured and the ways in which they are forever changed.