In a year of business closures, financial strain and social distancing, health officials reported suicide rates remained stable in Nevada County between 2019 and 2020.
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In an interview with the Journal Sentinel, Andrea Palm stressed the importance of vaccines, reflected on her time in Wisconsin, and talked about her new job.
Andrea Palm has gotten something in Washington, D.C., that she never got in Wisconsin: a confirmation.
Palm, who led Wisconsin s response to the COVID-19 pandemic during the two years she spent as secretary-designee of the state Department of Health Services, was never confirmed by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
But she was confirmed last week for the No. 2 position at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on a bipartisan 61-37 vote after being introduced by Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat.
During an interview this week with the Journal Sentinel her first since being sworn in as HHS deputy secretary on May 12 Palm stressed the importance of getting vaccinated, reflected on her time in Wisconsin and talked about her priorities in her new role. She also discussed President Joe Biden s focus on rebuilding and recovery, including addressing issues like mental health, preventing lead poisoning and access to care.
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We called them heroes. How will we support Wisconsin s health care workers as they grapple with the trauma of COVID?
Madeline Heim, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
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Lindsay Morgan, of Sheboygan, walks along the Sheboygan lakefront near King Park on Tuesday. As a speech language pathologist treating COVID-19 patients in the last year, she s feeling exhausted from what she s experienced.
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When Lindsay Morgan met the patient, the man s family had wanted to try everything possible to keep him alive.
He had suffered. As a speech-language pathologist, Morgan had assisted some of her hospital s sickest patients during the pandemic people who d had tubes stuck down their throats, pumping in 60 liters of oxygen per minute and interrupting their attempts to talk or swallow and he had been one of them.