by Sutter Health | Nov 5, 2021
By Liz Madison and Emma Dugas, Vitals contributors Earlier this year, children’s health and advocacy groups declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health. These organizations state this longstanding children’s health emergency has only been...
by Liz Madison | Nov 1, 2021
It was during the Colusa Duck Days—a well-known sportsmen’s expo that Patrick Kittle helped shape—when he started to “feel crummy.” The excitement he normally felt during this time, which always brings a lot of business to his local hunting and fishing store, was...
by Ashley Boarman | Oct 28, 2021
It took 38-year-old Jose Jimenez more than nine months into the country’s vaccine rollout to decide he was comfortable getting the shot. It’s a decision he says was suddenly made easy after spending more than a month in a Bay Area ICU battling COVID-19. “To everyone...
by Liz Madison | Aug 15, 2021
Call it the parental pickle. Society has been opening back up as COVID-19 vaccinations are available—with traditional in-person school right around the corner. And yet, the delta variant of COVID-19 cases are on the rise and those under 12 still do not have access to...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Jul 29, 2021
Temperatures are soaring, wildfires are burning out of control and spewing toxic smoke, and yet another surge of COVID-19 is upon us. You could be forgiven if you think this summer seems a lot like a sequel to last year’s disaster movie of a summer. There are a few...
