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Rural NC Warned Of Critical COVID-19 Community Spread

Grant Holub-Moorman
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While North Carolina’s urban centers were the sites of COVID-19 concern in March and April, the more sparsely populated parts of the state are now facing…
Health

COVID-19 Death Rates Are Higher In NC’s Rural Counties. Here’s Why.

Stacia Brown
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Though COVID-19 struck North Carolina’s suburban and urban communities earliest, the virus has begun to sweep through the state’s rural communities at an…
Health

Embodied: How COVID-19 Is Changing Childbirth

Stacia Brown
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Pregnancy and postpartum experiences can already be rife with anxiety. But since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, expectant and new mothers’…
Health

Embodied: How COVID-19 Is Changing Childbirth

Stacia Brown
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Pregnancy and postpartum experiences can already be rife with anxiety. But since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, expectant and new mothers’…
Health

Embodied: The Long Drive To Safe Birth in NC

Grant Holub-Moorman
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Childbearing in the United States is more deadly than in any other developed nation. Despite medical advances over the last few decades, the number of…
Health

Embodied: The Long Drive To Safe Birth in NC

Grant Holub-Moorman
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Childbearing in the United States is more deadly than in any other developed nation. Despite medical advances over the last few decades, the number of…
Race & Demographics

After Five Years, There's Finally A New Health Clinic In Warren County

Leoneda Inge
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People seeking health care in rural Warren County have waited a long time for good news. Now they're celebrating.Residents who live in the county, on the…
Health

Navigating Isolation At The Remote Ocracoke Health Center

Paul Kiefer
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Ocracoke Health Center CEO Cheryl Ballance estimates that anywhere from 8,000-10,000 people visit Ocracoke Island on any given summer weekend. Many…
Health

Navigating Isolation At The Remote Ocracoke Health Center

Paul Kiefer
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Ocracoke Health Center CEO Cheryl Ballance estimates that anywhere from 8,000-10,000 people visit Ocracoke Island on any given summer weekend. Many…
Health

Poll: Many Rural Americans Struggle With Financial Insecurity, Access To Health Care

Patti Neighmond
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A new poll from NPR, Harvard and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gives a glimpse into rural life in America today, finding that many people living in rural communities live on the edge financially.