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By nearly every metric that correlates with vaccine uptake — at least on the mainland — this shouldn’t be the case. Puerto Rico’s poverty rate is 43.5 percent, or more than twice as high ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico was an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). It is part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic . Puerto Rico started addressing the risks of an outbreak in early 2020.
Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, Modesta Irizarry has seen the growing toll of food insecurity across communities in Puerto Rico. From homeless people and families living in middle-class ...
Puerto Rico this week is dropping nearly all travel-related COVID-19 restrictions for domestic travelers from the U.S. as case counts on the island continue to fall. Starting Thursday, domestic ...
The Puerto Rico Department of Health ( PRDOH) ( Spanish: Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico) is one of the Cabinet-level agencies directly created by Article 4, Section 6 of the Constitution of Puerto Rico. It is headed by a Secretary of Health, appointed by the Governor of Puerto Rico and requiring the advice and consent of the Senate of ...
From the start of the outbreak until early March 2020, the CDC gave restrictive guidelines on who should be eligible for COVID-19 testing. The initial criteria were (a) people who had recently traveled to certain countries, or (b) people with respiratory illness serious enough to require hospitalization, or (c) people who have been in contact ...
Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia (born April 26, 1959) is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer currently serving as governor of Puerto Rico since January 2, 2021. He has previously served as secretary of justice, resident commissioner, acting secretary of state, de facto governor of Puerto Rico and as private attorney for Puerto Rico's fiscal ...
The CDC released new guidelines on for "how to navigate daily life" as states reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. Here's what you need to know.