Category: Public Health

Coronavirus response: Updates from the 6 hardest-hit states

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US prepares for 18-month pandemic; 52% of COVID-19 patients are younger than 55 — 7 key updates

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What’s to blame for the obesity epidemic?

Obesity is a topic that literally hits home for me.  For the past two years, the website WalletHub has voted the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission TX metroplex as the “fattest city in America.”  As a health care provider, this is deeply disturbing because it pu…

As Coronavirus Surges, Programs Struggle To Reach Vulnerable Seniors Living At Home

Older adults are at serious risk during this pandemic and have been advised to avoid contact with others. Yet many still need essential services, and programs are scrambling to adapt.

Funeral Homes, Families Ponder Deaths In The Age Of COVID-19

As the novel coronavirus marches across the country, it is upending how families and funeral homes honor the dead — and, ultimately, put them to rest.

A View From The Frontlines Of California’s COVID-19 Battle

California physicians dealing with COVID-19 offer a sobering portrait of a health care system bracing for the worst of a pandemic that could be months from peaking.

Up to 20% of millennials with COVID-19 require hospitalization, CDC says 

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What the US did — and didn’t — learn from past outbreaks

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What we’ve learned from more than 100 US coronavirus deaths

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Portland area hospitals join as unified system in coronavirus response

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