COVID-19 vaccination rates were 6.8 percentage points lower in rural U.S. counties than in urban counties as of early April, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published May ...

With the nation’s attention riveted on Covid-19, the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) says the closures of the nation’s hospitals—170 closures of rural hospitals in the last 15 years and ...

Rural communities also have higher rates of uninsured patients.As of Saturday, more than 80% of rural counties nationwide reported positive cases of COVID-19, totaling more than 34,500 people, ...

The first time Dr. Anita Chopra had a long COVID patient, she cried. It was two years after the pandemic, she said, when the ...

Rural hospitals in Northwest Missouri are preparing to provide care for their communities as COVID-19 continues to spread. Cameron Regional Medical Center has installed a walk-in fever and respiratory ...

Another round of COVID-19 relief funding is set to go out to healthcare providers, this time totaling $25.5 billion, the Department of Health and Human Services announced last week. The funding ...

The first time Dr. Anita Chopra had a long COVID patient, she cried. It was two years after the pandemic, she said, when the ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) took aim at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a heated Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday, questioning ...

Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been reviving them. COVID-19 was a huge, unexpected opportunity for rural ...