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Posts Tagged ‘Public Health’

Uncounted: Inaccurate Death Certificates Across the Country Hide the True Toll of COVID-19

By | December 28, 2021 | 0
Downtown Cape Girardeau on May 6, 2020.

Some counties, like Cape Girardeau, have seen a spike in deaths that aren’t attributed to COVID-19. Many of them, blamed on natural causes, are likely from the coronavirus.

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Special KCPD Unit Focuses on Saving Lives, One Drunk at a Time

By | December 23, 2021 | 1
A Kansas City police officer administers a sobriety field test.

Meet Kansas City police officer Douglas Davidson. He has the distinction of arresting more people for drunk or otherwise impaired driving than any other member of law enforcement in Missouri.

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10 Things KC Doctors Want You to Know About the Recent COVID Surge

By | December 21, 2021 | 0
A photo of a doctor, a parent and a child getting a vaccine against a backdrop of light yellow and pink. This illustrates local doctors' urgency to get folks vaccinated during the recent COVID surge.

On Dec. 17, physicians and hospital leaders united to share their message of urgency in light of the recent COVID surge. Here are 10 takeaways.

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Confusion Around COVID Ruling Swirls as Two Missouri School Districts End Semester Early

By | December 15, 2021 | 0
School buses wait Tuesday outside Thomas Hart Benton Elementary School in Columbia to take students home from the first day of classes.

As a growing number of Missouri school districts drop COVID mitigation measures under threat from Attorney General Eric Schmitt, at least two closed the doors on their fall semester early due to large numbers of staff and students out sick.

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Thinking Outside the Big Box to Address Food Deserts

By | December 15, 2021 | 0
The Juniper Gardens Training Farm in Kansas City, Kansas, helps refugee farmers navigate their first year of growing and selling produce at local farmers markets, a CSA program and a wholesaling operation that caters to restaurants. In the field is Gasalla Musekura, formerly of Congo. (Photo by Jeff Tuttle)

The solution to food deserts doesn’t appear to lie in wooing large retailers to fill voids so much as listening to the needs of the underserved and trying multiple approaches to get healthy foods in the hands of residents.

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