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Clay County seniors among most vaccinated age groups in state
Clay County seniors among most vaccinated age groups in state By Logan Whaley | May 17, 2021 at 9:47 PM CDT - Updated May 17 at 10:58 PM
CLAY COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - As vaccines continue to roll out, so do efforts to get people vaccinated.
Around 30 percent of Arkansans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but one rural county is performing better than most Region 8 counties.
According to the CDC, Clay County seniors are some of the most protected against COVID-19 in Region 8, as over 60 percent of Clay County residents over 65 are fully vaccinated against the virus.
Mobile mammography helping to âBridge the Great Health Divideâ The St. Bernards mobile mammography unit called the Ma am Mobile. It travels to various underserved health care areas in Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri. It offers services in the parking lots of rural hospitals. (Source: KAIT-TV) By Diana Davis | May 6, 2021 at 10:45 PM CDT - Updated May 6 at 10:45 PM
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - One in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Getting access to a screening mammogram should not stand in their way.
In Region 8, a largely rural area in Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri, that might mean traveling a great distance and possibly having to take off work to do so.
1st Choice Healthcare gets $3.6 million COVID grant
Healthcare provider receives over $3M By Logan Whaley | April 9, 2021 at 8:11 PM CDT - Updated April 9 at 8:11 PM
CORNING, Ark. (KAIT) - A Region 8 health center is receiving millions to help in the fight against COVID-19.
1st Choice Healthcare, based in Corning, will receive $3.6 million as part of the American Rescue Plan. CEO Brigitte McDonald says theyâre focusing on getting as many people vaccinated as possible, focusing on smaller communities in rural areas.
She says 1st Choice is planning on adding a mobile unit, helping with getting COVID vaccines distributed to vulnerable populations.
Illustration by Hanna Barczyk.
The door of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbus was locked when Larada Lee arrived for the first of two appointments she needed to get an abortion under Ohio state law. About a dozen anti-choice protesters had gathered outside, without masks, calling Lee a baby killer as she approached the door. Lee felt nauseated from her pregnancy, at times unable to keep down even water. Her bones ached. She was missing her classes at Ohio State University. The fatal shootings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor in recent weeks were weighing her down with a sense of hopelessness. Meanwhile, Ohio officials had sparked confusion by ordering a halt to “nonessential” abortions. “Being Black in the middle of trying to seek an abortion in the middle of a pandemic it was really difficult to navigate all of those feelings while also trying to focus on ’I hope that they don’t take this away from us,’” Lee said in a recent interview with