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US Officials Recommend Shorter COVID Isolation, Quarantine

Posted by Associated Press | Dec 28, 2021 | World

Written by MIKE STOBBE U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for asymptomatic...

How a Kennedy Built an Anti-Vaccine Juggernaut Amid COVID-19

Posted by Associated Press | Dec 15, 2021 | World

Written by MICHELLE R. SMITH Robert F. Kennedy Jr. strode onto the stage at a Southern California church, radiating Kennedy confidence and surveying the standing ovation crowd with his piercing blue Bobby Kennedy eyes. Then, he...

Lawsuit Challenges North Carolina Rules on Transgender ID

Posted by Associated Press | Nov 17, 2021 | Health, State Government

North Carolina’s requirement that transgender people undergo sex reassignment surgery as part of...

South Carolina Considers Breaking up Public Health Agency

Posted by Associated Press | Feb 15, 2021 | World

South Carolina’s public health workers have been tasked with keeping the state safe for 143 years, ever since lawmakers created a health board in 1878 after a yellow fever outbreak killed 20,000 Americans. Now, as the...

Pandemic Backlash Jeopardizes Public Health Powers, Leaders

Posted by Associated Press | Dec 15, 2020 | World

Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone. As the public health administrator, she’s struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic to keep her rural county along the...

Orange County Sheriff’s Office Limits Public Access, Cites Local COVID-19 Spread

Posted by Brighton McConnell | Dec 10, 2020 | Health, Local Government, Safety

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office closed its office access to the public this week, a...

Data Shows Americans Couldn’t Resist Thanksgiving Travel

Posted by Associated Press | Dec 4, 2020 | World

Americans couldn’t resist the urge to gather for Thanksgiving, driving only slightly less than a...

Next for Biden: Naming a Health Care Team as Pandemic Rages

Posted by Associated Press | Dec 3, 2020 | World

Up soon for President-elect Joe Biden: naming his top health care officials as the coronavirus pandemic rages. It’s hard to imagine more consequential picks. Already one prominent candidate to lead the Department of Health and...