COLUMN: Rethinking Disaster Readiness Before a Potentially Active Summer
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CDC study outlines lower vaccination rates and higher COVID-19 cases in rural counties than urban areas
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-- Residents of rural communities are at increased risk for severe COVID-19–associated morbidity and mortality. In September 2020, COVID-19 incidence (cases per 100,000 population) in rural counties surpassed that in urban counties.
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Colorado shuts a vaccination site after 11 'adverse reactions' to Johnson & Johnson shots, plus other developments
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Childhood mental health issues rise amid pandemic
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High summer heat in some neighborhoods adds to COVID risks
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Last summer, just as cases of Covid-19 began to surge in Southern California, so did the heat.
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Black nurses have dispoportionate death rate, struggle with mental health support while battling Covid-19
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Texas power blackouts illustrate weakeness of U.s. infracstructuret
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Even as Texas struggled to restore electricity and water over the past week, signs of the risks posed by increasingly extreme weather to America’s aging infrastructure were cropping up across the country.
The week’s continent-spanning winter storms triggered blackouts in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and several other states. One-third of oil production in the nation was halted. Drinking-water systems in Ohio were knocked offline. Road networks nationwide were paralyzed and vaccination efforts in 20 states were disrupted.
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The stresses on ambulance crews, front line workers, US and Spain
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s crowded in the back of the ambulance.
Two emergency medical technicians, the patient, the gurney — and an unseen and unwelcome passenger lurking in the air.
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OPINION: Reporting a worker’s hospitalization within 24 hours of a workplace incident is appropriate for traumatic injuries such as falling off a roof, but it makes no sense for Covid-19. It is generally impossible to identify the precise moment someone i
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Workplace exposures continue to be a major driver of the coronavirus pandemic, something that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) should be on top of. But a reinterpretation of a reporting rule is making that all but impossible.
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Red Cross warns coronavirus is prompting discrimination in Asia
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(Reuters) - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned on Thursday that the novel coronavirus is driving discrimination towards vulnerable communities in Asia, including migrants and foreigners.
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