Over the last few months, Gov. Chris Sununu and other state leaders eagerly touted New Hampshire’s apparently booming COVID-19 vaccination rate. They pointed to a range of numbers — the percent of New Hampshire’s population with at least one shot, the speed at which the state was using up its vaccine supply — to portray the state as a leader in the race out of the pandemic ..read more

After more than a year of hunkering down during the pandemic, many people who've been vaccinated for COVID-19 are feeling a little safer about stepping out. This is great for adults. But the vaccine isn't presently available to people under the age of 16 — children. As a result, NPR listeners have questions on what exactly children (and parents) can and can't do outside. How do you navigate life when parents are vaccinated and kids aren't? Dr. Nia Heard-Garris of Northwestern University in Chicago and Dr. Jose Romero, the Arkansas secretary of health, are both pediatricians who fielded some of ..read more

When Gov. Chris Sununu announced New Hampshire’s mask mandate last November, he cited hospital capacity and staffing strain as key factors in his decision. As that same mandate is now lifted, federal hospital data paints a mixed portrait of the pandemic’s effects on the state’s hospitals: On some fronts things have improved, but on others they’ve actually worsened or stagnated ..read more

Some in New Hampshire’s disability community say the state needs to do more to ensure people with disabilities and their caregivers can get the COVID-19 vaccine ..read more

After scaling back contact tracing efforts last November amid surging cases , New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services says it has resumed investigating all new COVID-19 infections ..read more

Inside one of Nashua’s community COVID-19 vaccine clinics, before patients arrive, nurses, public health workers and first responders are suiting up in scrubs and protective masks, sorting through paperwork and assembling supplies to administer the shots ..read more

Starting next week, New Hampshire will begin a large-scale effort to get more vaccines to people who are unable to get to fixed vaccine clinics — either because they lack transportation or have other medical conditions that prevent them from leaving home ..read more

Earlier this year, state leaders were eager to tout New Hampshire’s progress getting COVID-19 shots into the arms of its residents. “Here, in New Hampshire, we continue to administer vaccines at a higher rate than most states,” Gov. Chris Sununu noted during a Jan. 14 press conference . “I think we're currently ranked about 12th on the CDC chart, in terms of administration ..read more

New Hampshire is set to receive its first shipment of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, and one local health care system says it could begin inoculating its frontline workers by Wednesday ..read more

New Hampshire hospitals are seeing more COVID-19 patients than at any other point in the pandemic. As of Thursday morning, 248 confirmed COVID-19 patients were hospitalized statewide, according to the latest numbers from the New Hampshire Hospital Association . Another 39 patients suspected of having COVID-19, though not yet confirmed, were also admitted on top of that. (More national context from NPR: New Data Reveal Which Hospitals Are Dangerously Full. Is Yours? ) Newly released data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and interviews with healthcare officials at individua ..read more