Category: Public Health

How COVID-19 Highlights the Uncertainty of Medical Testing

Widespread COVID testing has revealed uncomfortable truths about medical tests: A test result is rarely a definitive answer, but instead a single clue. A result may be falsely positive or negative, or it may show an abnormality that doesn’t matter. And as COVID testing has made too clear, even an accurate, meaningful result is useless unless it’s acted on appropriately.

Amid COVID and Racial Unrest, Black Churches Put Faith in Mental Health Care

Black Americans are less likely to receive mental health treatment than the overall population. But as needs soar this year, faith leaders are tapping health professionals to share coping skills churchgoers and the community can use immediately.

Where COVID Is on the Menu: Failed Contact Tracing Leaves Diners in the Dark

State and local public health officials are sure that bars and restaurants are spreading COVID. But they don’t always have much concrete evidence to support their convictions.

Missouri physician starts petition calling for governor to implement mask mandate

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CDC to vote on who gets COVID-19 vaccine priority in emergency meeting

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COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record high in mid-November and are still rising, CDC says

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Shortened quarantine would identify most COVID-19 cases, Gottlieb says

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3 states reporting low to moderate flu activity: 6 notes from CDC’s Fluview report

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Fauci warns of ‘surge upon a surge’; Moderna seeks emergency approval for COVID-19 vaccine — 6 updates

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OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t.

Four workers died at a facility with one of the largest U.S. outbreaks, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration never conducted an inspection. It’s a pattern that’s played out across the nation, a KHN investigation finds.