By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Between 1990 and 2020, North Carolina’s Latino population ballooned: from 75,000 residents to more than 1 million, an increase of nearly 1,400 percent. The community is diverse; about 61 percent were born in the U.S., while the remaining 39 percent are immigrants, about half from Mexico, and […]
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For migrant farmworkers, internet access lags
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven From tight living quarters to high rates of chronic illnesses to no sick leave protections, immigrant farm workers have found themselves in particularly vulnerable positions as the COVID-19 pandemic spread throughout North Carolina. During the summer of 2020, hundreds of farm workers fell ill at more than […]
Tired of seeing barriers disrupt mental health support for students, this district redesigned its process
By Rupen Fofaria, EdNC Lauren Cappola knew she was sounding repetitive, but she felt compelled to ask the same question of her colleagues everywhere she went across the state: How are you connecting children with the mental health services they need? As director of counseling services for Harnett County Schools, […]
Hospitals Recruit International Nurses to Fill Pandemic Shortages
Nick Ehli BILLINGS, Mont. — Just before Mary Venus was offered a nursing position at a clinic in this article, she’d never listened to of Billings or visited the United States. A indigenous of the Philippines, she investigated her future go by means of the world wide web, set aside […]
Training teens to take COVID vaccine messages to their communities
By Anne Blythe Gabrielle Maradiaga Panayotti is a Duke pediatrician who readily acknowledges that she can encourage teens to get vaccinated and give them all the reasons why she thinks they should, but the reality is that their peers are likely to have more influence. That’s why LATIN-19, an organization […]
Study: COVID Vaccination Not Tied to Preterm Birth | Healthiest Communities Health News
New evidence supports recommendations by health officials to get vaccinated against COVID-19 during pregnancy, with researchers finding that the shot is not associated with an increased risk of two adverse birth outcomes. An analysis published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy was […]