The federal government will rely on pharmacies to help distribute COVID-19 vaccines when they become available to the public. Scores of rural counties don’t have a pharmacy that provides immunization services, a new study says. Nearly a third of rural counties in the United States lack a pharmacy connected to […]
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Federal health officials say clinical trials show that both coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are safe and more than 90 percent effective at preventing coronavirus infections. That hasn’t stopped groups from portraying the vaccines as dangerous, the product of corruption, or part of a government plot to track citizens. We have fact-checked unproven or […]
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They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry. The Rev. Dr. Kejuane Artez Bates was a big man with big responsibilities. The arrival of the novel […]
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About 400,000 children across the U.S. are growing up inside the foster care system, overseen by government employees who are overworked, and agencies that are historically underfunded. When the opioid epidemic hit, foster care systems saw a massive increase in the number of kids in their care. West Virginia has […]
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The number of new COVID-19 infections in rural America dropped slightly last week but remained at near-record numbers as the nation heads into the holiday weekend. New infections in rural counties numbered 204,960 last week, a 7 percent drop from the previous week’s record-setting 220,554 cases. COVID-related deaths also […]
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This is part two of a two-part series exploring racism as a public health crisis in Appalachia and its compounding due to COVID-19. Read part one here. As COVID-19 bore down on his community, Thomas Beavers recognized that primary among his responsibilities was dispelling the rumors. Beavers is pastor of […]
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