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Blog & News: COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: State-level and Subpopulation Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey - Update 3
Mar. 12, 2021 : Update 3: Feb 17 to Mar 1 Newly available COVID-19 vaccines promise to help protect individual Americans against infection and eventually provide population-level herd immunity. The pace of COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the United States has been somewhat unsteady, with a sizeable share of ups and downs from week to week—reports of slow early going were followed by states’ responsive... Read moreBlog & News: Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA) Data Show Minimal Impact from COVID Pandemic on 2020 Insurance Coverage
Mar. 09, 2021 : A new report released by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) shows that Minnesota’s uninsured rate for the first half of 2020—as well as the first known period of the coronavirus pandemic—was relatively unchanged from the fall of 2019, at 4.6% and 4.7%, respectively. The report uses data from the biennial Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA), conducted collaboratively between the Minnesota... Read moreBlog & News: SHADAC Researchers Continue to Make Updates to State Uninsured Population Profile Tool at Crucial Time
Mar. 03, 2021 : More than a year after their initial release of an interactive tool that provides a way to identify and characterize communities with high uninsurance rates in the state of Minnesota, a research team at SHADAC is continuing to provide general users, health insurance navigators, policymakers, and outreach teams with updates aimed at refining the tool, providing new data, and improving... Read moreBlog & News: Minnesota's coverage dynamics shifted prior to pandemic
Mar. 01, 2021 : In the three years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Minnesota’s health insurance landscape shifted in multiple ways. One positive development was a significant increase in rates of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) from 2016 to 2019. Others were potentially troubling—such as the significant decline in rates of health coverage through the individual market. The performance of the state’s... Read moreBlog & News: State-Specific Surveys Encompassing Residents’ COVID-19 Experiences
Feb. 26, 2021 : Updated on February 26, 2021 Introduction and Purpose One of the ways that states are responding to the novel coronavirus epidemic is to gather timely information from residents on their personal experiences and opinions regarding the pandemic. Such real-time information helps states effectively plan for current and impending impacts of this unprecedented public health crisis. The crisis... Read moreBlog & News: COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: State-level and Subpopulation Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey (Update 2: Feb 3 to Feb 15)
Feb. 25, 2021 : Newly available COVID-19 vaccines promise to help protect individual Americans against infection and eventually provide population-level herd immunity. The pace of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the United States has been somewhat erratic—with reports of slow early going before picking up somewhat in following weeks, only to be hampered by recent storms across the southern region. However,... Read moreBlog & News: 50-State Infographics: A State-level Look at Flu Vaccination Rates among Key Population Subgroups
Feb. 18, 2021 : The rapid development and approval of COVID-19 vaccines less than a year after the pandemic reached the United States has offered hope to end the crisis. But there are still great challenges to effectively and equitably distributing the vaccinations throughout the population. As states roll out the vaccines to the first phases of recipients, planning is already underway for subsequent phases... Read moreBlog & News: Race/Ethnicity Data in CMS Medicaid (T-MSIS) Analytic Files Updated February 2021 – Features 2018 Data
Feb. 17, 2021 : Updated February 2021 As the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis evolves, it has become increasingly clear that vulnerable subpopulations are being disproportionately impacted, both in terms of disease burden and the economic downturn. Medicaid has always played an essential role in providing coverage and care to vulnerable populations, particularly during economic downturns. As a result, the... Read morePages
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