Rural Broadband Grant Program Signed Into Law Wednesday

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Rural Broadband Grant Program Signed Into Law Wednesday

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Wednesday that establishes a statewide grant program designed to provide high-speed internet to areas currently lacking…

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Rural Humboldt County sees COVID-19 spike linked to church

EUREKA, Calif. (AP) – Humboldt County in rural Northern California is seeing a spike in COVID-19 infections that health officials say is linked to superspreader events, including one linked to…

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Coronavirus Missouri

Missouri launches new statewide transportation resource guide to expand COVID-19 vaccine access to rural, suburban, urban communities across the state

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), with the support of the Missouri Advisory Committee on Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, launched a new statewide…

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Egypt reports bird flu outbreaks in rural area

CAIRO (AP) – Local authorities in rural Egypt have declared a state of emergency after detecting two outbreaks of bird flu. Nagy Awad, head of the veterinary agency in the…

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Biden campaign pushes for improved broadband access in rural and tribal areas

By Samone Blair UNITED STATES – Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign held a roundtable about rural and tribal broadband access Friday. “The Covid-19 crisis has revealed that Americans…

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New rural hot spots are ICU bed deserts, study finds

Using Medicare data to pinpoint ICU beds, the authors found 49 percent of all low-income areas didn’t have any ICU beds, compared to just 3 percent of the wealthiest communities.…

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Trump signs order aimed at boosting rural health care, telehealth

Pressed about his lack of a replacement for Obamacare, Trump also has spent days promising to unveil a health plan of his own, though he declined to detail exactly what…

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Coronavirus South Carolina

The CARES Program during the Pandemic: Providing Health Outreach in Rural SC

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Anita Ramsetty about the free medical care and health screening provided in rural SC during the pandemic through the CARES program. Dr. Ramsetty…

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Virus taking hold in rural, old plantation region of Alabama

HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — Sparsely populated Lowndes County, deep in Alabama’s old plantation country, has the sad distinction of having both the state’s highest rate of COVID-19 cases and its worst…

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A deadly ‘checkerboard’: Covid-19’s new surge across rural America

As deaths near 100,000, the pandemic that first struck cities now strains counties with acres of farmland, cramped meatpacking plants, isolated prisons and few hospital beds. Source link

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