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Tag: Polk County

photo shows a jumble of dozens of empty vaccine vials
Posted inInfectious Disease

To vaccinate thousands, NC turns to volunteers

by Hannah Critchfield March 22, 2021March 23, 2021

By Hannah Critchfield For a rollout large enough to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic, you need volunteers. A lot of them. Getting shots into millions of arms requires boots on the ground, and to vaccinate a majority of North Carolina’s population – who reside in a nation already experiencing a shortage of health care workers […]

Steve North and Amanda Martin of the Center for Rural Health Innovation, which administers the Spruce Pine-based MY Health-e-Schools program.
Posted inChildren's Health

School-based health centers fill rural provider vacuum

by Melba Newsome November 17, 2020February 8, 2021
we see a man kayaking away from the photographer down the French Broad River toward a wall of trees and wide blue skies
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Gauging the lead threat in NC waters and aquatic life

by Carolina Public Press November 14, 2020January 27, 2021
photo shows three older people with masks standing and talking outside a white tent where someone else sits ready to help with voting
Posted inAging

How do you vote if you live in a nursing home? It can be complicated.

by Rose Hoban October 6, 2020October 5, 2020
Two seated brunette women lean over a table with a stethoscope and two computers in front of them.
Posted inGender health

Caring for the most stigmatized population

by Melba Newsome August 11, 2020January 29, 2021
A field scientist drags a cloth across the ground to gather ticks
Posted inChronic Disease

Ticks continue creeping southward in North Carolina

by Greg Barnes August 5, 2020August 6, 2020

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