The calls kept coming into the National Runaway Safeline during the pandemic: the desperate kids…
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Emily Sandoz, a psychologist in Louisiana, has witnessed clients’ grueling struggles during the pandemic. Many said they felt trapped and deprived of their usual ways of coping. Others began therapy for the first time…
While customers once indulged in hot stone manicures and strawberry mojito foot soaks at Studio…
When the pandemic-related lockdowns started in March, staff at several Asian American domestic violence organizations…
During a second-grade Zoom class in Orange County, CA, a boy said, “I don’t like China or Chinese people…”
You can catch COVID-19 if an infected person coughs or sneezes and contagious droplets enter your nose or mouth. But can you become ill if the virus lands in your eyes?
Americans are reporting high levels of emotional distress from the coronavirus pandemic — levels that some experts warn may lead to a national mental health crisis.
Given the shortage of COVID-19 testing, it’s hard for any community to gauge how widespread the disease has truly become. Now, researchers in places as far-flung as Montana, Paris, and the Netherlands are using a proxy: measuring levels of the coronavirus in untreated sewage to see how much the infection is circulating among people.
In states such as Michigan and Louisiana, as well as in cities like Chicago and Milwaukee, African American people are making up a disproportionately large number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, officials say.
For more almost 5 decades, funeral director Harry Greer, 74, has ushered families through loss…