Pandemic-Fueled Alcohol Abuse Creates Wave of Hospitalizations for Liver Disease
As the pandemic sends thousands of recovering alcoholics into relapse, hospitals across the country have reported dramatic increases in alcohol-related...
Year: 2021
As Pandemic Surged, Contact Tracing Struggled; Biden Looks to Boost It
Contact tracing, a critical part of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, has fallen behind in recent months...
Scalise’s Claim That Unauthorized Immigrants Are Getting Priority for Vaccination Misses the Point
Victoria Knight “Now he is saying that people who came here illegally can jump ahead of other Americans who have...
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...
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...
