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Rochelle Walensky
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
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America is missing vaccination goals, and Delta is raging, but it's not because 'anything particularly went wrong,' CDC Director Rochelle Walensky says

Read the rest of the interview with Insider Editor in Chief Nicholas Carlson>>


Telehealth startup Spora Health's mobile app
Telehealth startup Spora Health arms patients with data about their risk for chronic illnesses.
Spora Health

See the pitch deck that Spora Health used to convince investors to bet $3 million on a new approach to telehealth

  • Telehealth startup Spora Health was founded in 2019 to provide better care to Black Americans.
  • It hopes to do this by training doctors to be culturally competent, CEO Dan Miller told Insider.

See the presentation that Spora used to raise $3 million in a seed round>>


Large crowd of festival goers looking at stage
Festival goers are seen on day one of the Lollapalooza Music Festival on Thursday, July 29, 2021, at Grant Park in Chicago.
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People are bracing for a wave of event cancellations due to the Delta variant. Vaccine mandates could keep organizers from calling everything off.

Read the full analysis here>>


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