Health & Fitness

Experts offer roadmap for reporters tackling America’s nursing home crisis during COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the chasms, the fissures, the cracks in many American institutions. Nowhere, though, are they more apparent than in the nation’s arrangements for long-term care — specifically, in its nursing homes, where some 1.4 million people, mostly women, live out the rest of their days.

VA supports 988 expansion for National Suicide Prevention Crisis Line and Veterans Crisis Line access

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today their support for the Suicide Prevention 988 expansion initiative, a new national three-digit emergency telephone number to access crisis call centers across the country for suicide prevention and mental health services, including the Veterans Crisis Line, by July 2022.

Recreational team sports, including youth sports, still not permitted in Riverside County

As Riverside County continues to safely reopen additional activities and sectors of the economy, the return of youth sports has been on the minds of many parents and young athletes countywide.

In watching for the resurgence, mind the data complexities

As every state now has reopened some element of society after full lockdowns became the norm in recent months, scientists and reporters are watching for a COVID-19 resurgence.

Riverside County to begin coronavirus antibody testing as part of prevalence study

Thousands of Riverside County residents will soon be contacted and asked to take part in a coronavirus antibody testing study being sponsored by county health officials.

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