(Top row, left) Lucia Starbuck / This Is Reno; (remaining photos) Lucia Starbuck / KUNR Public Radio
Lucia Starbuck has covered the COVID-19 pandemic for over a year for KUNR Public Radio with Report for America, This Is Reno and Our Town Reno. In this photo gallery, she shares her photos from the field.
Early in the pandemic, my newsroom director asked me and my colleagues to grab our belongings and start working from home to curb the spread of COVID-19, but I still found myself incredibly curious about what was taking place in person in my home state. I had one driving question: What was pushing my community members to leave their homes during a deadly pandemic?
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Liz Szabo
Kaiser Health News
As an emergency physician, Dr. Eugenia South was in the first group of people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. She received her second dose last week – even before President-elect Joe Biden.
Yet South said she’s in no rush to throw away her face mask.
“I honestly don’t think I’ll ever go without a mask at work again,” said South, faculty director of the Urban Health Lab at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. “I don’t think I’ll ever feel safe doing that.”
And although vaccines are highly effective, South plans to continue wearing her mask outside the hospital as well.
USA TODAY NETWORK
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wants state lawmakers to pass a $1 billion COVID-19 economic relief bill that includes stimulus payments for about 400,000 eligible residents of the state.
The Republican said Monday that the bill, if passed, would provide a total of $267 million in stimulus money to individuals and families who qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit in 2019 and 2020.
Families would receive $750 and individuals would receive $450 under the RELIEF Act, which Hogan will ask legislators to pass when they convene for the first time in 2021 on Wednesday. I cannot imagine anything that could possibly be more important for the legislature to pass, Hogan said.