Most rural hospitals did not have large numbers of COVID-19 patients this spring and summer. The current record-breaking surge in rural areas will likely be different. Most rural hospitals didn’t get inundated with COVID-19 patients during the spring and summer surges of the pandemic. But the accelerating spread of the […]
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Review: Timely Release of an Updated Classic Study on Black Lung
My first encounter with black lung occurred as a child visiting the Tennessee Valley Fair, where a booth attendant displayed pictures of lungs flecked with what looked like tar and explained the injustice of the disease. Denise Giardina’s novels led to an early interest in health and labor activism sprinkled […]
Read MoreBiden Wins. But His Health Agenda Dims with GOP Likely to Hold Senate.
Former Vice President Joe Biden secured the 270 electoral votes needed to capture the White House on Saturday, major news organizations projected, after election officials in a handful of swing states spent days in round-the-clock counting of millions of mail-in ballots and early votes. The Democrat’s victory came after the […]
Read MoreDuring Voting Season, Trump Counties Have Higher Infection Rates
The counties where Donald Trump won by the largest margin in the 2016 election are also the places where the coronavirus has spread the quickest in the weeks leading up to the election a Daily Yonder analysis shows. Counties that voted by a landslide (more than a 20-point margin) for […]
Read MoreRural Counties Have 5th Consecutive Week of Record-Setting COVID Rates
Rural infections were instrumental in pushing the nation to a new peak in COVID cases last week. A spike in rural infections last week pushed the nation to a new peak in COVID-19 cases. Rural counties had a record 17,818 new infections on Friday, October 23. Even though metropolitan cases […]
Read MoreJust Another Wednesday: When the DOJ Purdue Plea Agreement Was Announced, Harm Reduction Activists in Appalachia Were Busy
Last Wednesday in Portsmouth, Ohio, a team of organizers with River Valley Organizing Project was out canvassing and encountered a man outside a corner store who was overdosing. The organizers were having folks fill out a survey—asking them what they love about their community, what they’d like to see changed, […]
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