Tag: Health

Photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo
Photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo

COVID-19 Didn’t Cause Appalachia’s Housing Crisis, But Advocates Say It Exacerbated It

Candice Kraus’s 10-year-old, Timothy, lives with sensory processing disorder. Camping was a terrifying experience.  Kraus and her family – Timothy, 9-year-old Gracie and Kraus’s husband, who’s no longer living with them – weren’t camping for pleasure. In late May, they were evicted from the trailer in which they’d lived for […]

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Parker McKenzie, 10, right, receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from nurse practitioner Amy Wahl with distraction help from certified child life specialist Haylee Rogers during the first COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Franklin County for children age 5-11 at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Photo: Paul Vernon/AP Photo

Q&A: Appalachian Pediatrician Talks COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 1.5 million children aged 5-11 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The lower-dose was approved for children by the head of the CDC earlier this month. Lisa Costello is a pediatric hospitalist at WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital, president […]

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Photo: Courtesy of Huntington Herald Dispatch Archives, Illustration: David Smith/100 Days in Appalachia

‘A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers’: W.Va. Author’s New Book Recounts History Amid Resurgence of Labor Organizing

In his new book “A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers: The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199,” John Hennen tells the story of a union founded in New York City that worked its way into Appalachian communities.  Hennen, a Morehead State University emeritus professor of history, says he […]

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