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Delaware Public Media
2y ago
When Colin Powell died this week from complications related to COVID-19, it was a shock to many Americans. Though scientists and federal health officials are adamant that the vaccines work well to protect against hospitalization and death, it's unnerving to hear of fully vaccinated people like Powell, or perhaps your own friends and neighbors, falling severely ill with COVID-19. So how well do the vaccines work? How serious is the risk of a serious breakthrough infection, one that could land you in the hospital? In Powell's case, of course, there are several reasons he was at higher risk. He w ..read more
Delaware Public Media
2y ago
When Nick Lawyer, a physician assistant in Sanders County, Mont. was asked by local leaders to take on the voluntary position of county public health officer, it felt like the right thing to do to serve his community in a crisis. "I kind of think I was one of the few who expressed any interest in the position who had any reasonable qualifications for the job," Lawyer says. Lawyer had worked as a PA at the 14-bed Clark Fork Valley Hospital in Plains, a town of about 1,000 people in a relatively remote river cut basin in northwest Montana, since 2013. When he agreed to take on the extra duties ..read more