California could soon add the COVID vaccine to list of required inoculations for young students -- At home COVID tests now covered by insurance, if you can find any -- Getting closer to understanding Long COVID "brain fog"

School aged kids here in California must receive about seven different inoculations before they're allowed in classrooms--they include vaccines against things like Polio, the chickenpox, measles mumps and rubella. Well one California lawmaker would like to add COVID-19 vaccinations to the list. So we'll take a closer look at making COVID vaccinations a permanent requirement for kids in the classroom.Those government-provided free, at-home rapid COVID testing kits are allegedly in the mail to the millions of people who ordered them online last week---plus, insurance companies are now required to cover the costs of rapid tests. Will all of these steps help ease the COVID testing shortage?And new research could provide answers on the origins and persistence of one Long COVID symptom: the dreaded so-called "brain fog" that some COVID victims still have months after their infection. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices