By Clarissa Donnelly DeRoven At 9 a.m. the meeting begins. “Would you spend the night in a haunted house?” Liz, a participant in the day program at Hinds’ Feet Farm in Asheville, asks her fellow group members, who sit scattered at round tables throughout the room. She answers her own question first: a firm no. […]
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More rapid tests are coming. What’s the best way to use them?
By Rose Hoban In the coming days, people seeking a rapid test to see if they’re positive for COVID-19 will be able to put information into a federal website and ask for up to four rapid tests. Ten to 12 days later, they should arrive in the mail. And over the past weekend, federal rules […]
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Camino Health pregunta: ¿quiénes son los latinos de Carolina del Norte?
Por Clarissa Donnelly DeRoven, traducido por Lidia Hernández Tapia Entre 1990 y 2020, el crecimiento de la población latina de Carolina del Norte se disparó: subió de 75 000 residentes a más de 1 millón, un aumento de casi 1400 por ciento. La comunidad es diversa; alrededor del 61 por ciento nació en los Estados […]
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Record number of Americans sign up for ACA health insurance
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News, and Andy Miller A record 13.6 million Americans have signed up for health coverage for 2022 on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, with nearly a month remaining to enroll in most states, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. President Joe Biden’s top health advisers credited the increased government subsidies, which lowered […]
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Las vacunas son ahora más asequibles para los trabajadores agrícolas, pero muchos aún tienen dificultad con el acceso a Internet
Por Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, traducido por Lidia Hernández Tapia Desde viviendas pequeñas, altas tasas de enfermedades crónicas y sin protección de licencia por enfermedad, los trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes se han encontrado en posiciones particularmente vulnerables a medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 se extende por Carolina del Norte. Durante el verano de 2020, cientos de trabajadores […]
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‘Incidental’ COVID cases, full ICUs, plus staff shortages stressing NC hospitals
By Rose Hoban Susan Paulsen started having chest pain on Monday. The 60-year-old painter who lives in Chapel Hill waited four hours, thinking it was indigestion, hoping it would go away. Besides, she didn’t want to go near a hospital. “That seemed like a place I might catch it,” Paulsen said, referring to the Omicron […]