<bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>Hello,</p><p>Today in healthcare news: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nih-covid-vaccine-schedule-rollout-federal-employees-fauci-biden-collins-2021-2">NIH hasn't been able to get vaccines to its workers</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-life-expectancy-fell-one-year-coronavirus-pandemic-toll-2021-2">US life expectancy dropped</a>, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-vaccines-may-decrease-spread-of-covid-lower-viral-load-2021-2">Fauci says there may be evidence vaccines are stopping spread</a>. </p><hr><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nih-covid-vaccine-schedule-rollout-federal-employees-fauci-biden-collins-2021-2"><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/602d709231eb0600197c3cbf-1778/Collins Vaccine.jpg" border="0" alt="Francis Collins Vaccine" data-mce-source="Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, receives his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health."></a></h3><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nih-covid-vaccine-schedule-rollout-federal-employees-fauci-biden-collins-2021-2">The government agency that helped develop the COVID-19 vaccine in record time can't get shots for its own workers, emails show</a></h3><ul><li>The National Institutes of Health was critical in the development of the coronavirus vaccine.</li><li>But most of its more than 20,200 workers haven't gotten the shot yet.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nih-covid-vaccine-schedule-rollout-federal-employees-fauci-biden-collins-2021-2">Five other federal agencies got vaccine priority.</a></li></ul><p><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nih-covid-vaccine-schedule-rollout-federal-employees-fauci-biden-collins-2021-2">Read the full story from Kimberly Leonard, Robin Bravender, and Elvina Nawaguna here>></a></strong></p><hr><h3><img src="https://static5.businessinsider.com/image/602e6fa431eb0600197c3ef1-2044/GettyImages-1230193167.jpg" border="0" alt="hospital nurse los angeles covid coronavirus california" data-mce-source="Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Nurse Michelle Goldson in the ICU at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital on December 17 in Los Angeles." data-link="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/during-the-coronavirus-pandeimic-michelle-goldson-rn-is-news-photo/1230193167"></h3><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-life-expectancy-fell-one-year-coronavirus-pandemic-toll-2021-2">US life expectancy fell by a year during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the most dramatic drop since World War II</a></h3><ul><li>Average life expectancy in the US fell from 78.8 to 77.8 years in the first half of 2020, per the CDC.</li><li>The data is based on deaths from various causes, but shows the toll COVID-19 has taken.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-life-expectancy-fell-one-year-coronavirus-pandemic-toll-2021-2">Black and Hispanic Americans saw larger drops than white Americans, the CDC said.</a></li></ul><p><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-life-expectancy-fell-one-year-coronavirus-pandemic-toll-2021-2">Read the full story from Bill Bostock here>></a></strong></p><hr><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-vaccines-may-decrease-spread-of-covid-lower-viral-load-2021-2"><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5fe1bf6ed366e6001809987b-1778/anthony fauci.jpg" border="0" alt="Dr. Anthony Fauci" data-mce-source="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Dr. Anthony Fauci participates in a news briefing at the White House on November 19, 2020."></a></h3><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-vaccines-may-decrease-spread-of-covid-lower-viral-load-2021-2">Fauci: There's evidence COVID-19 vaccines don't just protect youthey may stop you from spreading the virus to others, too</a></h3><ul><li>Dr. Fauci is touting some of the first evidence that vaccines can help stop the spread of COVID-19.</li><li>The hunch hinges on 2 new studies, which suggest vaccinated people don't spread the coronavirus well, even if they do get sick.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-vaccines-may-decrease-spread-of-covid-lower-viral-load-2021-2">Getting vaccinated, Fauci said, is "not only good for you," it can protect others too.</a></li></ul><p><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-vaccines-may-decrease-spread-of-covid-lower-viral-load-2021-2">Read the full story from Hilary Brueck here>></a></strong></p><hr><p><strong>More stories we're reading:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-vaccine-efficacy-how-well-shots-prevent-infections-2020-11">When experts say COVID-19 vaccines are 95% effective it doesn't mean you'd have a 5% chance of getting sick</a> (Insider)</li><li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2021/02/17/billionaire-clover-health-ceo-vivek-garipallis-expletive-ridden-tirade/'sh=74e47079140a">Forbes had a very colorful phone call with Clover's CEO</a> (Forbes)</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-not-prepared-for-variant-found-in-uk-dominant-2021-2">The US isn't prepared for a new, more infectious variant to be dominant by Marcheven with vaccinations underway</a> (Insider)</li><li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/17/biden-medicare-chiquita-brooks-lasure/">Biden has picked Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services</a> (Washington Post)</li></ul><hr><p>- Lydia</p><p><a 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