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As a Big Opioid Trial Looms in West Virginia, the Firms Being Sued are Getting Huge COVID-19 Contracts from the Trump Administration

by Eric Eyre on September 30, 2020 Comments are Disabled

This piece was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump’s administration has been heaping praise and awarding contracts to prescription drug distributors that are being accused of fueling the opioid crisis. […]

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Ohio’s Appalachian Region Was Already Losing Child Care Providers. Then The Pandemic Hit.

by Rachel Dissell on September 23, 2020 Comments are Disabled

CHESAPEAKE, Ohio — The children at Stephanie Geneseo’s home-based child care center dart around in astronaut helmets while they battle green googly-eyed COVID alien germs, using play to learn about hand washing in a pandemic that shows no signs of letting up. “I want to make it fun so that it […]

Bankruptcy, Blackouts and Broken Broadband Promises

by Lucas Manfield, Mountain State Spotlight on September 21, 2020 Comments are Disabled

This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. The pandemic caps a decade of West Virginia’s struggles with Frontier over internet service. In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Andrew Dean, who owns a restaurant and convenience store in […]

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Emails Show the Meatpacking Industry Drafted an Executive Order to Keep Plants Open

by Michael Grabell & Bernice Yeung on September 21, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Hundreds of emails offer a rare look at the meat industry’s influence and access to the highest levels of government. The draft was submitted a week before Trump’s executive order, which bore striking similarities. In late April, as COVID-19 raced through meatpacking plants sickening and killing workers, President Donald Trump […]

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White House Task Force Doctor Stops In Lexington To Discuss College Coronavirus Cases

by Corinne Boyer on September 15, 2020 Comments are Disabled

This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. White House-appointed Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx visited the Lexington campus of the University of Kentucky on Monday as concerns grow over an escalating number of positive cases on campuses around the region. Dr. Birx met with students, faculty and administrators on the […]

The Overlooked Logistics of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

by Liz Szabo on September 14, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Local health departments say they lack the staff, money and tools to distribute and administer millions of vaccines. Public health departments, which have struggled for months to test and trace everyone exposed to the novel coronavirus, are now being told to prepare to distribute COVID-19 vaccines as early as Nov. […]