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Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, and today in healthcare news:
- One Medical's CEO explains why the primary-care company is buying Iora;
- 8 charts shared by the CDC show how powerful Pfizer's vaccine is against COVID-19;
- How to use an at-home coronavirus test.
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Happy September! A quick note: I linked to the wrong article yesterday about women taking out their own IUDs after doctors refused to do it. You can read that article here.

One Medical
One Medical is making a $1.4 billion bet on eldercare pioneer Iora. CEO Amir Rubin tells us why.
- Primary care company One Medical completed its $1.4 billion acquisition of Iora Health on Wednesday.
- One Medical's CEO and Iora's founder shared their vision in an interview.
- They're building a primary-care company that treats patients from when they're young to when they age into Medicare.
Read more from the conversation>>

Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group/Daily Local News via Getty Images

Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group/Daily Local News via Getty Images
CDC shares 8 new charts that show how powerful Pfizer's vaccine is against COVID-19 and the Delta variant
- On Monday, independent experts to the CDC voted unanimously to recommend Pfizer's vaccine to everyone over 16.
- Their decision was data-driven, and factored in both the risks and benefits of vaccination.
- They reviewed graphs and tables showing that, while vaccinated people can get mild infections, Pfizer's vaccine does a great job keeping people alive and out of the hospital.

Ellume

How to get at-home coronavirus tests, and how to use them correctly
- At-home coronavirus tests are in high demand amidst the Delta surge.
- Most home kits are rapid antigen tests, which are quick and cheap but not as sensitive as PCR.
- PCR testing is the current "gold standard," which you can get delivered but it usually takes place in a lab.
Here's what you need to know>>
More stories we're reading:
- Even with the Delta variant, the ability of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent hospitalization hasn't significantly dropped, CDC scientist says (Insider)
- Mental health startup Alma raised $50 million at around a $500 million valuation (Forbes)
- Prescriptions for ivermectin - a deworming drug - surged to 24 times their pre-pandemic levels as people baselessly take it as a COVID-19 cure (Insider)
- J&J's HIV vaccine failed in its first trial looking at how well it worked to prevent infections (Stat News)
- Lydia
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