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Don’t let Ohio GOP lawmakers hamstring efforts to protect people from latest COVID surge
Many of our expectations and assumptions about politics have been upended over the past five years. But nothing is quite as disturbing as the Republican Party’s ongoing war against local efforts to protect community members — including children — from the deadly and costly effects of a still-raging pandemic. In Ohio, this is manifested in […]
A boy with an autoimmune disease was ready to learn in person. Then his state banned mask mandates
By Annie Waldman and Bianca Fortis, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. When the coronavirus first swept across Florida last year, Angela Gambrel did everything she could to lock down her home in Sumter County, northeast of Tampa. Her 10-year-old grandson Jayden has a rare brain disease that disrupts his immune system and […]
School or ‘Russian roulette’? Amid variants and lax mask rules, some parents see no difference
By Rae Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News The child had just started kindergarten. Or, as her mother called it, “Russian roulette.” That’s because her school district in Grand Junction, Colorado, experienced one of the nation’s first delta-variant outbreaks last spring, and now school officials have loosened the rules meant to protect against covid-19. The mother, […]