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Wildfire smoke leaves lung damage long after air clears

SEELEY LAKE, Mont. (AP) — When researchers arrived in this town tucked in the Northern Rockies three years ago, they could still smell the smoke a day after it cleared from devastating wildfires. Their plan was to chart how long it took for people to recover from living for seven …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Wildfire smoke leaves lung damage long after air clears

SEELEY LAKE, Mont. (AP) — When researchers arrived in this town tucked in the Northern Rockies three years ago, they could still smell the smoke a day after it cleared from devastating wildfires. Their plan was to chart how long it took for people to recover from living for seven …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Wildfire smoke leaves lung damage long after air clears

SEELEY LAKE, Mont. (AP) — When researchers arrived in this town tucked in the Northern Rockies three years ago, they could still smell the smoke a day after it cleared from devastating wildfires. Their plan was to chart how long it took for people to recover from living for seven …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Health officials worry nation not ready for COVID-19 vaccine

Public health departments, which have struggled for months to test and trace everyone exposed to the novel coronavirus, are now being told to prepare to distribute COVID-19 vaccines as early as Nov. 1.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Health officials worry nation not ready for COVID-19 vaccine

Public health departments, which have struggled for months to test and trace everyone exposed to the novel coronavirus, are now being told to prepare to distribute COVID-19 vaccines as early as Nov. 1.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Pandemic adds risk to already dangerous job of firefighting

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Jon Paul was leery entering his first wildfire camp of the year late last month to fight three lightning-caused fires scorching parts of a Northern California forest that hadn’t burned in 40 years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Pandemic adds risk to already dangerous job of firefighting

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Jon Paul was leery entering his first wildfire camp of the year late last month to fight three lightning-caused fires scorching parts of a Northern California forest that hadn’t burned in 40 years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Pandemic adds risk to already dangerous job of firefighting

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Jon Paul was leery entering his first wildfire camp of the year late last month to fight three lightning-caused fires scorching parts of a Northern California forest that hadn’t burned in 40 years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

County pledges probe into health worker's coronavirus death

Officials in a Maryland county say they “will spare no time or expense” investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a veteran public health worker who died of COVID-19 after relatives and coworkers believe she contracted the virus on the job.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Maryland county pledges probe on health worker's virus death

Officials in Maryland’s Prince George’s County say they “will spare no time or expense” investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a veteran public health worker who died of COVID-19 after relatives and coworkers believe she contracted the virus on the job.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Blood Centers Will Collect Plasma From COVID-19 Survivors In Bid For Treatment

Blood donation centers across the U.S. are ramping up efforts to collect plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 in hopes it could be used to save the lives of others infected with the pandemic disease.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

With Coronavirus Rare In Rural Florida, Experts Dispute Way Forward

JUPITER, Fla. ? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has refused to issue a statewide “stay-at-home” order to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus because the disease has not hit many areas of the state, he said.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Temperature Check: Tips For Tracking A Key Symptom Of Coronavirus Contagion

After I was told I’d been exposed to the novel coronavirus, I tried to follow the best medical advice. I started working from home. I socially isolated. And I “self-monitored” for signs I’d been infected.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

'Essential' Or Not, These Workers Report For Duty

[partner-box]WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Pauline Lawrence is 63, an age that puts her at increased risk if she contracts COVID-19.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Sheltered At Home, Families Broach End-Of-Life Planning

Long before she contracted COVID-19 at a Kirkland, Washington, nursing home, Barbara Dreyfuss made sure to document the wishes that would govern how she died.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

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