STORRS, Conn. (AP) — At most of the nation’s largest public universities, students are under no obligation to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Some schools do require vaccines, but with leniency for those who opt out. Still others have expelled students who do not comply. As a new semester begins amid a resurgence of the coronavirus, [...]
Fearing his parents wouldn't approve of his decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine but needing their signature, Andrew signed up for the appointment in secret, and then sprang it on them at the last minute. They said no. Andrew cursed at his mother and father and called them idiots. Andrew's dad grabbed him by the [...]
A Columbus-based, non-profit provider of care and services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or I/DD, and behavioral health challenges, announced this week the launch of an integrated whole-person health-care center in Columbus, where the company was founded 40 years ago. Boundless Health officials said this is is the first such healt-care center in [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing many hospitals to pay top dollar to get the help they need to handle the crush of patients this summer. The problem, health leaders say, is twofold: Nurses are quitting or retiring, exhausted or demoralized by the crisis. And many are leaving for [...]
The Ohio Department of Aging is asking seniors throughout the Buckeye State to get moving during September to promote Falls Prevention Awareness Month. The department has reintroduced a popular fall-prevention campaign to get older Ohioans moving and keeping them on their feet. “Falls are a serious concern for older Ohioans; one in three will fall [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — This summer's coronavirus resurgence has been labeled a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" by government officials from President Joe Biden on down. The sound bite captures the glaring reality that unvaccinated people overwhelmingly account for new cases and serious infections, with a recent study of government data showing that hospitalization rates among unvaccinated [...]
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The COVID-19 surge is stretching oxygen supplies and sending hospitals scrambling for more ventilators, even as there are signs of hope that the spread of the virus is slowing down in pockets of the country. In Tulsa, Okla., a hospital recently called 911 after coming within just a few hours of [...]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After more than a year of attending church virtually, Monique Allen has struggled to explain to her asthmatic daughter why people from their congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints don't wear masks. Allen said she's taught her daughter that wearing a mask is Christlike, but now [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — The sergeant had so little use for the tablet that she did not bother to grab it from the seat of her squad car when she ran into the house where a suicidal man was screaming and slamming his head against the floor. But when she saw the man might harm himself, [...]
BOSTON (AP) — While many schools scrambled to shift to online classes last year, the nation's virtual charter schools faced little disruption. For them, online learning was already the norm. Most have few physical classrooms, or none at all. Yet when Congress sent $190 billion in pandemic aid to schools, virtual charters received just as [...]