A COVID-19 patient was in respiratory distress. The Army nurse knew she had to act quickly. It was the peak of this year’s omicron surge and an Army medical team was helping in a Michigan hospital. Regular patient beds were...
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Written by MIKE STOBBE U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for asymptomatic...
Read MoreWritten 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...
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North Carolina’s requirement that transgender people undergo sex reassignment surgery as part of...
Read MoreSouth 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...
Read MoreTisha 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...
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office closed its office access to the public this week, a...
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Americans couldn’t resist the urge to gather for Thanksgiving, driving only slightly less than a...
Read MoreUp 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...
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The Orange County Health Department recently launched a video series to help answer community...
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