What Can Employers Do to Require or Encourage Workers to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?
This fact sheet reviews what employers can and cannot do under current rules and guidance to require or encourage their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Deaths Among Older Adults During the Delta Surge Were Higher in States with Lower Vaccination Rates
Policy WatchThis analysis looks at the relationship between vaccination rates and COVID-19 deaths for adults 65 and older since the Delta variant took hold, and finds that states with lower vaccination rates among adults ages 65 and older had higher death rates among older adults during this period.
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KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: Profile Of The Unvaccinated
Poll FindingThis report explores the roughly a third of adults who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine and finds that, compared to vaccinated adults, they are younger, more likely to identify as Republican or Republican-leaning, with lower incomes and education levels, and more likely to be uninsured.
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Medicare Will Spend More Than $13 Billion on the Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Program in 2026
Issue BriefThe Medicare program will spend at least $13 billion on the Medicare Advantage quality bonus program in 2026, as 68% of Medicare Advantage enrollees are in a plan that qualifies for higher payments under the program.
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Vaccine Monitor: Some Who Were Hesitant to Get a Vaccine in January Say They Changed Their Mind Because of Family, Friends and Their Personal Doctors
News ReleaseA new KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor report finds that people who were initially hesitant to get a vaccine in January but ultimately did so often say that family, friends and their personal doctors helped change their minds. The report features a second round of interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults six months after they first shared their vaccine intentions in January, early in the nation’s vaccine distribution effort. The new survey assesses whether…
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Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy
Issue BriefThere was an increase in life expectancy between 2021 and 2023 across all racial and ethnic groups. American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people experienced the largest increase in life expectancy of 4.5 years during this time, followed by Hispanic (3.5 years) and Black people (2.8 years).
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Global Disease Outbreaks: A 2025 Snapshot and Implications for the U.S.
Issue BriefA snapshot of disease outbreaks, with human transmission, that have occurred globally thus far in 2025, using multiple official sources.
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Surging Delta Variant Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths Are Biggest Drivers Of Recent Uptick in U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
News ReleaseLarge Majorities of Americans, Both Vaccinated and Not, Say COVID-19 is Likely to Persist at Lower Levels and Be Something the U.S. Will “Learn to Live With” like Seasonal Flu More than 7 in 10 adults (72%) in the U.S. now report that they are at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19, with the surge in disease and death driven by the Delta variant serving as the chief impetus in recent weeks, finds the latest KFF…
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The Status of President Trump’s Pause of Foreign Aid and Implications for PEPFAR and other Global Health Programs
Policy WatchThis policy watch provides an overview of the Trump administration's executive order to pause all foreign aid programs, including for global health, and related actions to date.
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Mpox One Year Later: Where is the U.S. today?
Issue BriefThis brief provides an overview of the impact of mpox in the U.S. one year after a case of was identified domestically and the federal response to date, and discusses the future outlook.