Oregon has 2,002 known cases of COVID-19, according to Oregon Health Authority data released April 21. The state now counts 78 deaths as officially caused by COVID-19. The number of patients currently in the hospital due to confirmed or suspected cases is at 297, with 70 in the ICU and 35 on ventilators. Sixteen days ago, Oregon had…
Ken Loredo didn’t learn about the two dozen COVID-19 cases at the long-term care facility where his mother lives until the Illinois Department of Public Health released the data for the first time over the weekend. “We hadn’t heard anything at all,” Loredo said. “I was pretty shocked.” Loredo said his mother has had great…
9.32am EDT 09:32 The Guardian’s Kenya Evelyn reports: In a faux campaign ad appearing to mock Joe Biden, Donald Trump tweeted a 2017 clip of the former vice president recalling his time at a community pool in his home state of Delaware. “So I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap,”…
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Here in Washington, we’ve been hearing about tensions between the White House and one of its most controversial — but, at least in some circles, most popular — figures: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Polling of likely voters indicates that the Health and Human Services secretary can be an asset to Republicans when he’s talking about improving the nation’s food supply or labeling ultraprocessed foods. But when he’s talking about removing recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations, he can be a detriment. So, when I
Several states have joined President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts and are taking federal reporting requirements to immigration authorities a step further — by using their public health agencies as arms of enforcement. North Carolina, in late April, became the latest member of a growing group of Republican-led states to require their public health agencies to