The coronavirus has traveled the globe, infecting one person at a time. Some sick people might not spread the virus much further, but some people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 are what epidemiologists call “superspreaders.” Elizabeth McGraw, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Pennsylvania State University, explains […]
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When COVID-19 Created Even More Scarcity, This Network of Western N.C. Programs Stepped Up
In the rural westernmost counties of North Carolina, providing services to neighbors in the best of times requires resourcefulness – doubly so in a crisis. Getting from point A to point B on these mountain two-lanes often entails circumventing point E. It’s 35 miles from Franklin, county seat of Macon […]
Read MoreA Return to Normal Hasn’t Quite Happened in Many Houses of Worship in Appalachia
The stretch of U.S. 23 in Kentucky from Ashland to Louisa is littered with Christian churches – Methodist, Church of Christ, Baptist, Nazarene – and on a recent Sunday, the drive down the winding, rural highway showed parking lots in some places littered with cars, just until services let out only […]
Read MoreCould Coronavirus Change How We Are Born? In Appalachia, It Already Is.
Ten years ago, I gave birth at home, attended by midwives, largely because it seemed like the safest idea at the time. We lived, and still live, in rural Appalachian Ohio, in a small town with only one hospital. Due to the remoteness and poverty in my community, we don’t […]
Read MoreQuestions And Anxiety Mount Over COVID-19 Workplace Safety As More Businesses Reopen
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Gail Fleck is a school cafeteria worker in the greater Cincinnati area and lives with her 90-year-old father. She loves her job because she gets to work with kids. But she is worried she won’t be able to keep her dad […]
Read MoreThink Americans Are Polarized Over Reopening, Face Masks? Survey Says Think Again
Here’s something that might surprise you: A new national survey shows that regardless of political affiliation, Americans are mostly in agreement over how to reopen the economy during the coronavirus pandemic — slowly — and with protective measures like face masks. Indiana, for example, is currently in “phase 3” of […]
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