The 'five pandemics' driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths STAT analyzes the data to show how five key factors worked to drive U.S. Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic, yielding "five pandemics." J. Emory Parker STAT

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One way to start understanding how a country as advanced as the U.S. lost so many people is to look at the ocean of public health data that was gathered as 1 million individual tragedies rippled through civic life.

Do COVID Vaccines Stave Off New Medical Conditions? Large study finds breakthrough cases linked with lower risk of diabetes, hypertension diagnoses Molly Walker medpagetoday

Risks of long COVID symptoms and the incidence of new onset hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease were lower among vaccinated patients with breakthrough infection versus those with COVID who were unvaccinated, a large analysis of medical records in the U.S. suggested.

Why Covid-19 vaccine boosters may be more important than ever With waning immunity and a coronavirus that seems to become more infectious with each new variant, the Biden administration predicts that up to 100 million more people could get Covid-19 in the fall and winter. That estimate makes it crucial that as many people as possible get booster shots of Covid-19 vaccine, experts say. Jen Christensen, CNN CNN

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The number of Americans who say they won't get a COVID shot hasn't budged in a year Politics, religion, distrust and disinformation all play a role. "I've realized that there's no convincing somebody once they have their mind made up," says a social worker in Beaumont, Texas. NPR.org

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With Covid funding stalled, White House prepares for vaccine shortage in the fall The White House is looking for ways to make additional cuts and reallocate remaining Covid resources as it anticipates a funding shortfall for new vaccines YahooNews

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Travel nurses raced to help during Covid. Now they're facing abrupt cuts. As Covid hospitalizations stabilize and federal and state funding dries up, contracts that were plentiful and lucrative are vanishing. NBC News

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What will COVID look like this summer? Health experts say the virus won't be endemic, yet. The past two summers saw increased cases, hospitalizations and death, but health experts say this summer may be different. YahooNews

The past two pandemic summers saw a spike in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and death, but this season may be different.

U.S. to ask world for more on global Covid fight as its own cash dwindles Ahead of the summit, some officials worry the Biden administration’s effort is hobbled by a lack of additional pandemic response funding. YahooNews

The White House is hosting a global Covid response summit this week — but the U.S. isn't currently prepared to bring significant new money to fight the virus worldwide, according to two people familiar with the preparations.