by William Jester | Sep 29, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
For two years, health officials stressed the importance of wearing masks when spending time indoors in order to help lower the risk of catching and spreading COVID-19. That guidance has been especially important during the fall and winter months when more people head...
by Pamela Dahlen | Sep 27, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
Here’s how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as the future of disease tracking. Read the Full Article.
by William Jester | Sep 27, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
President Joe Biden turned heads Sunday night when he declared the COVID-19 pandemic is “over” even while stating the United States is still having a “problem” with the virus. “The pandemic is over,” he said during an interview...
by William Jester | Sep 26, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
When it comes to the pandemic’s impact on academic achievement, no children are immune. But just as COVID-19 itself has hit underserved demographics the hardest, minority students in poorly equipped schools experienced the steepest slides in the national test-score...
by William Jester | Sep 23, 2022 | Community, Covid, News
When the pandemic started, Tomeka Kimbrough-Hilson knew she had a small growth inside her uterus. She was first diagnosed with uterine fibroids back in 2006 and had been able to have the non-cancerous mass removed through outpatient laser surgery. Over the years,...