This story is from a partnership that includes NPR, Nashville Public Radio and KHN. It can be republished for free. Mary Barnett is one of about a dozen seniors who got a covid-19 vaccine on a recent morning at Neighborhood Health, a clinic tucked in a sprawling public housing development on the south side of […]
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Dr. Norma Thomas carries a microphone as she walks the streets of Uniontown, Pennsylvania’s East End. This is the “before times,” before COVID-19, and as Thomas recounts the local history of the East End neighborhood, more than 100 people follow closely behind. Others poke their heads out onto their front […]
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice took a victory lap on national cable networks on Feb. 1, explaining how West Virginia succeeded in vaccinating a greater share of its residents than any other state. In appearances on both CNN and MSNBC, Justice said that his state had actually injected more than […]
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In 2015, Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case reported research results that took most everyone by surprise: Death rates for middle-aged white Americans were rising. The causes, they found, were suicide, alcohol-related liver disease and drug overdose – what they termed “deaths of despair.” “Only HIV/AIDS in contemporary times […]
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About a third of rural residents are reluctant get to vaccinated, while about a quarter of metropolitan residents are. Rural residents are more hesitant than their metropolitan counterparts to get a COVID-19 vaccination, even though rural areas have higher rates of infections and deaths from the coronavirus, according to a new […]
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This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. He asked her if she was cold. A wind whips around the park in western Kentucky a couple days before Christmas. He puts his arm around her as they move closer together on the bench. Blake Livesay, 27, met Laura […]
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