Public Health

Visit Yellowstone Public Radio or Montana Public Radio for a transcript of the episode. After covid-19 arrived in Park County, Montana, the local health officer, Dr. Laurel Desnick, became the face of pandemic measures and the focus of attention as never before. She’s been whispered about at the grocery store, yelled at on her way […]

Once a week, Lori Janich drives down the street from her office and partakes in an ongoing success story. Phone in hand to confirm her appointment, she strolls into the massive Activities and Recreation Center on the University of California-Davis campus, reaches a covid-19 testing station, swirls water in her mouth, spits into a tube, […]

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month unveiled updated covid-19 guidelines that relaxed masking recommendations, some people no doubt sighed in relief and thought it was about time. People have become increasingly comfortable being out shopping, attending live events, or meeting up with friends at restaurants. And many are ready to cast […]

Two months before the Super Bowl, the omicron surge was decimating NFL rosters as players tested positive for covid-19. In mid-December, the NFL postponed a game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Seattle Seahawks because the Rams, who would go on to win the Super Bowl, had 29 players out with covid. The number […]

The coronavirus pandemic is now stretching into its third year, a grim milestone that calls for another look at the human toll of covid-19, and the unsteady progress in containing it. The charts below tell various aspects of the story, from the deadly force of the disease and its disparate impact to the signs of […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Dr. Mark Ghaly, head of California’s massive Health and Human Services Agency, continues to wear a mask in grocery stores and will dine outside — but not indoors ­— at restaurants even as California, like much of the nation, has lifted its mask mandate and many other pandemic restrictions. This was among […]

COSTA MESA, California – Kennedy Stonum, estudiante de secundaria, ignoró las repetidas súplicas de su padre para que se vacunara contra covid-19. “Le enviaba artículos. Le enviaba estudios. Le enviaba cualquier cosa que yo pensaba que podría asustarla lo suficiente sobre covid para que se vacunara, o al menos disipar sus dudas sobre la vacuna”, […]

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Kennedy Stonum, a high school junior, deflected repeated entreaties from her father to please just get vaccinated against covid-19. “I would send her articles. I would send her studies. I would send her whatever I thought might either scare her enough about covid to get the vaccine or allay her concerns […]

Anthony Cantu, de 31 años, aconseja a los pacientes de una clínica de salud de San Antonio, Texas, sobre una pastilla diaria que ha demostrado prevenir la infección por VIH. El verano pasado, él mismo comenzó a tomar el medicamento, un enfoque llamado profilaxis previa a la exposición, conocido como PrEP. El régimen requiere pruebas […]

[UPDATED on March 4] Anthony Cantu, 31, counsels patients at a San Antonio health clinic about a daily pill shown to prevent HIV infection. Last summer, he started taking the medication himself, an approach called preexposure prophylaxis, better known as PrEP. The regimen requires laboratory tests every three months to ensure the powerful drug does […]