CHICAGO – Despite mandates, COVID-19 vaccination rates among workers at many nursing homes in Illinois remain at low levels, health officials say, prompting concerns that the rise in cases statewide could again endanger the elderly.
PARADISE, Kansas — This time of year, rancher Rich Koester is normally busy caring for newborn calves or feeding his herd to get them ready for winter. Instead, he’s busy burying livestock.
Kansas county health officers continue to leave their jobs in significant numbers after losing the power they formerly had to take any steps necessary to slow the spread of outbreaks of disease, says soon-to-retire public health official Gianfranco Pezzino.
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly said the flow of state tax revenue was sufficient to propose Wednesday a $445 million tax rebate to Kansans who filed tax returns in the 2021 calendar year.
A Reno County native and his young family were among a dozen Anabaptist missionaries who made a daring escape from kidnappers in Haiti last week. His family in Reno County, who said they were praying almost continuously for him and his family and the other captives, described it as a Christmas miracle.
Few optimists exist anymore when it comes to COVID-19. Indeed, few in the health care community thought they were done with the virus after a delta variant-fueled surge in late summer.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, can spread within days from the airways to the heart, brain and almost every organ system in the body, where it may persist for months, a study found.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home. But despite the high public demand for tests, it will still be several more weeks before these kits are available to be shipped. The administration is still working on details for how the program will work.
Although some may fear sharks when swimming in open waters, these often misunderstood creatures may hold a way to help protect us from the coronavirus, new research suggests. As one of the ocean’s top predators, sharks have antibody-like proteins that can stop the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a study published Dec.
In recent weeks, researchers in Australia discovered “the first true millipede” – a 3-inch-long creature with 1,306 legs. But that bug doesn’t come close to a recently discovered ancestor from over 300 million years ago, one that scientists in England say was a giant millipede “as big as a car” at nearly 9 feet long.