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In January, $600 checks are headed to eligible frontline farmworkers and meatpacking workers for expenses incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Experts say respiratory virus season has started earlier than usual and has been particularly severe for children.
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An activist group claims Johnson County left the Congolese community out of its COVID pandemic assistance program. But that’s not the whole story.
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Mindy Brashears, the former head of the USDA's agency overseeing meatpacking plants, has been largely quiet about her agency’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, in exclusive interviews, she addresses the criticism the USDA put food production over worker safety.
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West Liberty has seen three resignations in as many months, and now the city's ARPA funded direct assistance program is facing pushback.
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Many children from toddlers to teens are dealing with social and emotional challenges because the pandemic. This hour we’ll talk about how kids have been affected and how kids, parents, teachers and caregivers are coping.
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The new bivalent booster shot offers protection against two strains of the coronavirus, including the omicron variant, which accounts for the majority of cases.
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Updated COVID vaccine boosters are now recommended, for those ages 12 and older, that target the two omicron subvariants which are causing most of the current infections.
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The necessity of remote work at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic showed the benefits of work-from-home options. Two years in, much of the workforce has not returned to the office, bringing new challenges to employers.
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For many patients with long COVID, life doesn’t go back to normal. But they aren’t alone. They join a community of chronic illness patients who hope the money being poured into studying long COVID will have a wider benefit.