Resilience

Around the state and country, school districts have had big enrollment drops and high numbers of disengaged students during the pandemic.

Missouri residents scrambled to receive COVID-19 testing services last month, with sites running out of tests within only a few hours and cars lined up for blocks.

COVID could join the ranks of dozens of other endemic diseases, including seasonal threats like the flu and illnesses of varying degrees of severity from the common cold to malaria.

In her first State of the State address last month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a proposal to spend $10 billion over several years to support the state’s beleaguered health-care workforce.

Amid lockdowns, changing protocols and vaccine development, calls to respond to people experiencing suicidal ideations hit a five-year high in Salem, N.H. last year with 65 Fire Department responses.

As the pandemic enters its third year, the proposed pay raises underscore what critics see as a fundamental flaw in Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposed budget for the Department of Public Health.

Whether the relatively low and stable death rate will continue to hold by the time the omicron wave subsides remains to be seen. But Omicron deaths will likely peak in the Bay Area this week or next.

The system is run by On the Job and Off, a company that offers support services for first responders and is based in Harrisburg, although it operates across the U.S. and Canada.

The Washington Department of Health requires masks to be worn in indoor public settings and at large outdoor events with 500 or more attendees. The order covers grocery stores, event venues, restaurants, theaters, malls and places of worship.

Doctors with OU Health shared advice and information about what they’re seeing during this surge, what the omicron variant looks like in children, and when COVID-19 symptoms are cause for concern.

The severity of each case is often based on a person’s vaccination status, their age and overall health. But even then there are unknowns.

Rhode Island, along with other states and regions, is experiencing a post-holiday surge in coronavirus disease. The latest estimates show that about 90% of new cases in Rhode Island are caused by the highly transmissible omicron variant.

The metro area has the nation’s fourth worst job shortfall from the “pandemic recession,” Fed economists wrote in their report. The area had 8.1% fewer jobs in October 2021 than it did prior to the pandemic.

To mitigate the effects of climate change and environmental racism that impact certain hotter and more polluted areas of the city, a group in Stockton, Calif., has secured funding from a state grant program.

“Omicron is here; it’s serious,” acting state Health Secretary Dr. David Scrase said during an online update Wednesday. “In another week or two, it will be 100 percent of the new cases in our state.”

Those facilities have some of the lowest percentages of available staffed hospital beds in New York. In the five-county Western New York region, just 3% of hospital beds were available in Chautauqua County and only 8% were open in Cattaraugus County.

Wearing her son’s ashes around her neck, she is committed to Singing River, even though she could be making triple her salary as a travel nurse. But she’s worried omicron’s spread will leave local hospitals “inoperable.”

If approved by the City Council, it would require all San Jose city employees to receive booster shots as a condition of employment and anyone who enters city-owned facilities to do the same.