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- Walmart's primary care clinics are struggling with simple tasks;
- August was the deadliest month of the COVID-19 pandemic yet for pregnant people, says the CDC;
- These startups want to make virtual clinical trials a reality, but experts say it won't be the norm anytime soon.
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A Walmart Health clinic with counseling, labs, optometry, primary care, dental, and hearing services.
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Walmart's health clinics are struggling with basic functions like billing, imperiling the company's push to upend care
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- Walmart has opened 20 primary-care clinics in three states over the past two years.
- Operational problems have obstructed Walmart Health's ability to improve healthcare, workers say.
- Walmart has struggled with billing insurers and credentialing providers, employees told Insider.
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CDC issues an 'urgent' warning for pregnant people to get vaccinated as new data show pregnancy almost doubles the risk of death from COVID-19
- The CDC is issuing an urgent health advisory to encourage more vaccinations of pregnant people.
- People who get COVID-19 during pregnancy have a two-fold risk of admission into the ICU and a 70% increased risk of death, according to the CDC.
- In August, 22 pregnant people died from COVID-19, CDC data say.
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Startups are raising tens of millions to make clinical trials virtual. But experts say we're still years away.
- The pandemic's telehealth boost has spurred investments in startups making clinical trials virtual.
- The goal is to open trials for experimental medicines to people who can't trek to a medical center.
- These companies and experts agree it'll be years before decentralized clinical trials are the norm.
More stories we're reading:
- Claims of anti-vax nurses fueling hospital staff shortages ignore the limited support and lack of mental healthcare for COVID's frontline workers (Insider)
- YouTube is banning all videos of vaccine misinformation on its platform (The New York Times)
- A top psychedelics VC who's evaluated 374 pitches shares the 2 red flags that turn him off every time (Insider)
- A hospital sepsis algorithm might be collecting the wrong type of data (STAT)
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