Vaccine Hesitancy vs. Vaccine Refusal: Nursing Home Staffers Say There’s a Difference
CONCORD, N.C. — It had been months since Tremellia Hobbs had an excuse to bring out the pompoms. Before the...
Month: February 2021
What are the health Benefits of CBD Oil that people don’t know about?
The advantages of cannabis continue to create contentious headlines from the arena of health and medication. However, with more physicians,...
Schools Walk the Tightrope Between Ideal Safety and the Reality of Covid
California mom Megan Bacigalupi has had enough. She wants her kindergartner and second grader back in their Oakland classrooms. But...
Why the U.S. Is Underestimating Covid Reinfection
Kaitlyn Romoser first caught covid-19 in March, likely on a trip to Denmark and Sweden, just as the scope of...
California’s Smallest County Makes Big Vaccination Gains
WOODFORDS, Calif. — In the winter, the roughly three-hour drive from Alpine County’s main health clinic in Woodfords to the...
After Nearly 60 Years of Marriage, This Missouri Couple Stayed Together to the End
Arthur Kelley could barely raise his voice above a whisper last fall when he told a nursing assistant he never...
Community Health Workers, Often Overlooked, Bring Trust to the Pandemic Fight
Michele Cohen Marill For 11 months, Cheryl Garfield, a community health worker in West Philadelphia, has been a navigator of...
The State of Vaccine Supply: ‘Opaque.’ Unpredictable. ‘Hard to Pin Down.’
Even as the pace of vaccination against covid-19 has steadily accelerated — hitting an average of 1.3 million doses a...
Comparing Death Tolls From Covid to Past Wars Is Fraught
Counting the dead is one of the first, somber steps in reckoning with an event of enormous tragic scope, be...
California’s Rural Counties Endure a Deadly Covid Winter
Covid-19’s fierce winter resurgence in California is notable not only for the explosion in overall cases and deaths in the...
As Demand for Mental Health Care Spikes, Budget Ax Set to Strike
HELENA, Mont. — When the pandemic hit, health officials in Montana’s Beaverhead County had barely begun to fill a hole...
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Covid and Kids
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Nearly a year into the pandemic, many public schools are...
