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'Long-Haulers' Are Finding Relief After Getting Their COVID-19 Vaccine

4:34pm March 30, 2021

by Will Stone

An estimated 10% to 30% of people who get COVID-19 don't fully recover, but have chronic symptoms. Now some of these "long-haulers" are finding relief after getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Dialysis clinics are often located in areas that are underserved by other forms of health care. And many already vaccinate their patients against other illnesses.

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Racial Equity In Vaccination? Dialysis Centers Can Help With That

12:38pm March 30, 2021

by Yuki Noguchi

One smart way of getting the vaccine to communities at high risk of COVID-19: Take it to places many patients already visit three times a week.

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The Blackfeet Reservation Is Reopening Its Roads After Vaccination Success

4:23pm March 29, 2021

by Aaron Bolton

The Blackfeet tribe in Montana, nearly 100% vaccinated, controls half of Glacier National Park's entrances, which closed last year. Now they can re-open, benefitting people on and off the reservation.

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City Dwellers Are Driving To The Country To Take The Vaccines Locals Won't

4:43pm March 26, 2021

by Jonathan Ahl

As states add new groups to vaccine eligibility lists, more city folks are making long drives out to rural towns to take the appointments that vaccine-wary local residents aren't.

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A Boston Woman Built A Website To Help Her Community Access Vaccines — Then It Grew

4:43pm March 26, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Diana Rastegayeva about starting a service to help people in her community access vaccines during her maternity leave, which has now snowballed into a whole operation.

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Dialysis Centers An Efficient Option To Vaccinate Quickly And Reach Minority Groups

4:43pm March 26, 2021

by Yuki Noguchi

About half of dialysis patients nationally are Black or Latino and vulnerable to severe Covid-19 or death. Many get dialysis three times a week, so vaccinating at those centers would be efficient.

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For one Ohio Medicare patient, the same pain-relieving steroid shot that used to cost her about $30 went up to more than $300 just because her doctor started giving it in a hospital-affiliated clinic instead of her former office.

Her Doctor's Office Moved 1 Floor Up. Why Did Her Treatment Cost 10 Times More?

4:43pm March 26, 2021

by Lauren Weber

Same building. Same procedure. Same doctor. But there was an extra "facility fee" because the location changed slightly. A shot that used to cost her about $30 went up to more than $300.

A worker prepares to give a COVID-19 vaccine last week at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif.

Few Facts, Millions Of Clicks: Fearmongering Vaccine Stories Go Viral Online

12:19pm March 25, 2021

by Miles Parks

There's no link between COVID-19 vaccines and death. But a new NPR analysis finds stories implying a connection have gone viral this year at a dramatic rate.

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Florida's Pasco County Health Department and the Army National Guard partnered with Fellowship Church in Tampa, Fla., to help city residents age 65 and older get immunized with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in February.

OPINION: 5 Ways To Make The Vaccine Rollout More Equitable

9:03am March 25, 2021

Getting the COVID-19 vaccine into most Americans' arms will involve much more than a good supply and logistics. Values such as equity, deep listening, and informed choice are crucial, too.

Articles Linking COVID-19 Vaccines To Death Seem To Be Driving Misinformation Online

9:32pm March 24, 2021

by Miles Parks

Ahead of congressional testimony from the heads of Facebook, Twitter and Google, a new NPR analysis finds that articles linking COVID-19 vaccines to death are driving misinformation online.

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