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Amanda Michelle Gomez was the Peggy Girshman Fellow at KFF Health News in 2021.
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Some business owners, wondering whether it’s too soon to ease the requirement, long for more guidance and support from the mayor.
But state and local officials embrace the requirement because it creates a safer workplace while allowing employees to continue working.
But providers do not expect contraception to blunt the law’s effects.
Expectations are high for the city’s first-ever gun violence prevention director to curb the surging murder rate with interventions outside of traditional law enforcement.
But Americans generally have little confidence that the White House or Congress will recommend the right thing, a new poll shows.
Public health experts increasingly urge people to upgrade to surgical masks, but also maintain that cloth masks still offer protection.
V-safe is a new safety monitoring system that lets anyone who has been vaccinated against covid-19 report possible side effects directly to federal health officials. Experts believe the smartphone tool has so far helped demonstrate the vaccines are safe.
Back-to-school season has fueled immediate covid outbreaks. Instead of beefing up protections, some districts are letting students go without masks, physical distancing and quarantines. And parents are left to make impossibly tough decisions.
Local health officials find themselves once again behind the covid curve as the delta variant drives their case counts. With resources already stretched, along with the politicization of covid-19, county and state health departments in places like Missouri and Texas are making tough calls on whom to trace.
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