Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Headed Back to School: A Look at the Ongoing Effects of COVID-19 on Children’s Health and Well-Being
Children are preparing to head back to school for the third time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Children have been uniquely impacted by the pandemic, having experienced this crisis during important periods of physical, social, and emotional development, with some experiencing the loss of loved ones. We examine how the pandemic continues to affect children’s physical and mental health, consider what the findings mean for the upcoming back-to-school season, and explore recent policy responses.
Related: A Look at the Economic Effects of the Pandemic for Children
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Implications of the Lapse in Federal COVID-19 Funding on Access to COVID-19 Testing, Treatment, and Vaccines
A current impasse in Congress threatens continued funding for COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccines. The lack of additional federal COVID-19 funding has broad implications for access to these services, particularly for the uninsured, and could undermine efforts to ensure equitable access to these resources.
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Vaccinating the World: How Does the U.S. Stack Up Against Other Donors?
This analysis looks at the amount of funding for vaccines and the number of vaccine doses that have been donated to the global COVID-19 vaccine effort and standardizes these donations based on the size of donor economies.
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Are There Enough COVID-19 Vaccines for America Without More Funding?
This Data Note estimates how far the current U.S. supply of COVID-19 vaccines could stretch under different vaccination and booster scenarios. Under a plausible set of scenarios where 4th doses are recommended, the federal government is unlikely to have enough doses already purchased to cover the U.S. population.
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U.S. International COVID-19 Vaccine Donations Tracker
This brief examines U.S. policy options for helping expand global access to COVID-19 vaccines, focusing on four main areas: in-kind donations of vaccine doses, additional funding for global access mechanisms like COVAX, helping expand global vaccine manufacturing, and relaxing or waiving intellectual property protections on vaccine technologies.
Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity
KFF is collecting and analyzing data on COVID-19 vaccinations by race/ethnicity to gain increased insight who is receiving the vaccine and whether some groups are facing disparities in vaccination.
Community Health Centers Are A Key Source of COVID-19 Rapid At-Home Self-Tests For Hard-To-Reach Groups
As part of an effort to promote equitable access to tests, 25 million rapid at-home self-test kits were to be distributed by community health centers with a focus on reaching populations at greatest risk from adverse outcomes related to COVID-19.The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT+ People’s Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted the lives of people across the globe, has negatively impacted LGBT+ people’s mental health in disproportionate ways. In this data note, we pull together data from nationally representative surveys, adding to a small but growing evidence base on the impact of the pandemic on LGBT+ people.
State Data and Policy Actions to Address Coronavirus
There have been over 3 million cases and 131,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the U.S. Every state and Washington D.C. have eased or lifted at least one social distancing requirement — including 39 states that have eased or lifted stay-at-home orders.
COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker
This tracker provides the number of cases and deaths from novel coronavirus by country, the trend in case and death counts by country, and a global map of showing which countries have cases and deaths. There have been over 11.8 million confirmed cases and 544,000 confirmed deaths worldwide.
COVID-19 and Related State Data
Use this tool to create custom reports of COVID-19 and related state data. Group COVID-19 cases and deaths with indicators like total hospitalizations, vaccinations and mental illness.