Amanda Michelle Gomez

Natosha Daniels poses for a portrait in front of her home in Round Rock, Texas on August 28, 2021. Daniels has three school-aged children in Round Rock, Texas. She thinks disagreements over this school year' s COVID safety rules distract from addressing losses in learning and mental health problems, which disproportionately affect Black students.

To quarantine or not: The hard choices schools are leaving to parents and staff

September 7, 2021 at 10:47 a.m.

On the second day of high school in Texas, Natosha Daniels' 14-year-old daughter went all day without eating because she did not want to remove her mask. The teen's school...

Maine | Total COVID-19 deaths in Maine: 67 per 100,000 people (total: 901) - Total COVID-19 infections in Maine: 5,355 per 100,000 people (total: 71,666) - 65 and older population: 21.3% - Total population: 1,338,404 (SeanPavonePhoto/Getty Images)

COVID politics and fatigue work against contact tracers

August 23, 2021 at 3:42 p.m.

Health departments nationwide scaled back their contact tracing in late spring or early summer when COVID-19-19 cases started to decrease as vaccination efforts took center stage. Then delta hit. Now...

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