Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kan., for 42 years and never felt so alone.
As the public health administrator, sheâs struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic to keep her rural county along the Missouri border safe. In return, sheâs been harassed, sued, vilified â and called a âsheep.â
The months of fighting over masks and quarantines were already wearing her down. Then she got COVID-19, likely from her husband, who refused to require masks at the family hardware store. Her mother got it, too, and died Sunday.
Across the U.S., state and local public health officials have found themselves at the center of a political storm.
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