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Category: Public Health
Cleveland EMS asked suspected coronavirus patient to walk to hospital
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Symptom screening failed to detect coronavirus in travelers from China
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Coronavirus death toll passes 2,000; Nebraska hospital treats 13 patients
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Five Years Later, HIV-Hit Town Rebounds. But The Nation Is Slow To Heed Lessons.
In February 2015, an unprecedented HIV outbreak fueled by intravenous drug use hit the small city of Austin, Indiana. Under pressure, then-Gov. Mike Pence reluctantly allowed a syringe exchange. Five years later, HIV is undetectable in most of the outbreak patients. Still, the lessons haven’t been learned nationwide. Fewer than a third of the 220 counties deemed by the federal government as vulnerable to similar outbreaks have active syringe-exchange programs.
School Districts Grapple With Quarantines, Face Masks And Fear
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, school districts, especially those with large Chinese student populations, are in uncharted territory as they apply new federal travel rules to their students. Some also are weighing requests from parents that are more about fear than science, such as whether to allow students with no travel history to stay home from school.
FDA calls on public for help with vaping investigation
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Physicians, teen boys talking about HIV testing improves testing rate, study suggests
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Rural American at risk of HIV outbreaks amid opioid crisis
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Wuhan hospital director dies of coronavirus; US risk still low, HHS official says
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