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Health Care January 17, 2023

Moderna’s experimental cancer vaccine treats but doesn’t prevent melanoma – a biochemist explains how it works

by Mark R. O’Brian, University at Buffalo, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Media outlets have reported the encouraging findings of clinical trials for a new…

Health Care January 4, 2023

Public Health Agencies Try to Restore Trust as They Fight Misinformation

This article by Lauren Sausser was first published in Kaiser Health News, republished with permission. Lauren Sausser January 4, 2023 OKLAHOMA CITY — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby,…

Health Care November 19, 2022

Mistrust and Polarization Steer Rural Governments to Reject Federal Public Health Funding

This article by Jazmin Orozco was first published in Kaiser Health News, republished with permission Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez November 18, 2022 ELKO, Nev. — When Elko County commissioners rejected a…

Health Care February 24, 2022

Georgia legislators target COVID mask, vaccine precautions with mandate bans

by Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder [this article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] February 23, 2022 Republican state lawmakers’ fight against COVID-19 mandates gained steam Wednesday, with…

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Health Care January 27, 2022

Is the omicron variant Mother Nature’s way of vaccinating the masses and curbing the pandemic?

By Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In the short time since the…

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Health Care January 9, 2022

Public availability of COVID stats in Georgia choked off because of ELR problems. Just what is ELR?

For the past several days it hasn’t been possible to get complete and consistent reports on COVID in Georgia in general and in Cobb County in our specific case because…

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From the Editor November 21, 2021

We are not out of the woods on COVID-19 in Cobb County

Yesterday I reported that Cobb County had a spike in COVID-19 cases among 0-4-year-olds and 5-17-year-olds and a consequent rise in the COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 of population. The…

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Health Care September 4, 2021

Cobb County passes 50 percent for fully vaccinated residents — But how close does that bring us to herd immunity?

CobbTV, a media service of the Cobb County government, announced in a tweet yesterday that 51 percent of county residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, compared to a 44 percent…

Health Care August 24, 2020

Wellstar pediatrician warns against skipping immunizations for children

Dr. Andrew Doyle, a pediatrician with Wellstar Health System, warned that a dangerous drop in childhood immunizations is taking place nationwide, and if it continues as the schools reopen for…

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Cobb County December 28, 2019

The Cobb County Courier’s top 10 stories of 2019

There are four days left in 2019, but I feel pretty safe in predicting the top ten stories of 2019 won’t be supplanted by anything we publish in the next…

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