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Pop-up clinics at gas stations and nightclubs are part of the latest effort to reach the unvaccinated.
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“The only hospital we’ve got is on its deathbed,” an 89-year-old state senator said.
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“This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year,” the state’s former health officer said.
about 1 year ago
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Fourteen people were killed when a tornado hit Rolling Fork this spring. It’s one of many Mississippi communities without a public tornado safe room.
11 months ago
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Gulfport, Mississippi, has a far lower homicide rate than Jackson. But some neighborhoods have seen frequent gunfire, and residents say it takes a toll.
9 months ago
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Several members of the Little Rock Nine pushed back on the Arkansas Department of Education’s treatment of the Advanced Placement course.
7 months ago
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By the end of the month, two Alabama hospitals will stop delivering babies. A third will follow suit a few weeks later. That will leave two counties — Shelby and Monroe — without any birthing hospitals, and strip a predominantly Black neighborhood in Birmingham of a sought-after maternity unit. After that, pregnant women in Shelby County will have to travel at least 17 miles farther to reach a hospital with an OB-GYN. And because the county, one of Alabama’s largest, is bordered by another whose…
6 months ago
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OXFORD, Miss. — In Mississippi’s first gubernatorial election since the fall of Roe v. Wade’s — which shuttered clinics across the South and drove pregnant women across state lines for care — abortion rights aren’t on the ballot. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and his Democratic challenger, Brandon Presley, both support the state’s sweeping abortion ban. That has left some Democratic voters here wrestling with deeply held convictions about abortion rights in a surprisingly competitive governor’s ra…
5 months ago
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At 6:58 a.m. Thursday, Dr. Angela Adams Powell addressed the nurses at the south Alabama hospital where she had delivered babies for more than 25 years. “I was afraid I might not be able to speak,” she said, her voice breaking, “and I might not.” In two minutes, the labor and delivery department at Monroe County Hospital would shutter, leaving the community without a birthing hospital. In two minutes, pregnant women in a county where 22% of residents live below the poverty line would be forced t…
4 months ago
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ATLANTA — At Emory University Hospital Midtown in downtown Atlanta, two mobile pods have been stationed outside the emergency room. Doctors have been called in during extra busy “surge” times, and an administrator described patients on stretchers lining the halls. “Overcrowded is probably par for the course,” said Dr. Nataisia Terry, the medical director of the emergency department, adding that the volume of ER patients grew by 20% over the last budget year. Nearby, Grady Memorial Hospital is s…
about 2 months ago
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Two Alabama fertility clinics that paused in vitro fertilization services last month expect to resume them now that state lawmakers have passed a bill to protect doctors and clinics that discard embryos as part of routine IVF services. The bill “provides the protections that we need to start care — or resume care, really,” said Dr. Janet Bouknight, an IVF provider at Alabama Fertility, which suspended IVF services Feb. 22 after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered unb…
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In Mississippi, the poorest state in the nation, Republican lawmakers have loosened their decadelong resistance to expanding Medicaid and making health insurance available to roughly 200,000 of the state’s low-income residents. But some Republican leaders have said they will not approve a bill without a work requirement, a provision critics say could still leave the most vulnerable Mississippians behind. Medicaid expansion would bring coverage to state residents with incomes up to 138% of the f…
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