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Mitigation Measures 201

Masks... distancing... hygiene... oh my! We seem to be getting the idea that this is what we're supposed to be doing, even if not everyone is on board and it can be hard to remember all the time. But what else is there? It can be confusing as we try to resume some semblance of […]

Union County COVID Diary — August in Retrospect

This article was originally published in The Daily Item on Sunday, September 6, in the Opinion Section. We know that COVID-19 does not affect all demographics uniformly, but new analysis from the independent journalism site, the Marshall Project, paints a stark picture of disparate racial impacts. Plotting excess deaths (not specific to COVID-19, but during […]

Voting in the Time of COVID

(This information is specific to Pennsylvania! If you are in another state, your election laws and ways to find out about the status of coronavirus transmission will be different. The general principles of assessing your local situation and your own level of risk, holds. Make a plan to vote now!) Election season is upon us. […]

Back To School Looks… Different

UPDATE (8/14): During school board meetings this week, both Mifflinburg Area School District and Lewisburg Area School District voted in favor of delaying their start dates until after Labor Day. The hope is this will provide time for the recent increase in cases to subside and offer conditions suitable for opening for face-to-face instruction. UPDATE […]

We’re All In This Together — Whether We Admit It Or Not

This is a modified version of an article that appeared as a My Turn column in the Daily Item on Sunday, July 19.Many organizations and institutions have made plans to stay open or reopen in keeping with CDC guidelines. That is good except for one loophole: those CDC guidelines rely on a baseline “good behavior” […]

COVID Q&A

We put out a call on facebook in mid-July for questions from locals about the coronavirus pandemic. Here is first the post, which accompanied an image of our "We Are All In This Together -- Whether We Admit It Or Not" article, and then a compilation of what people asked and our responses: OP: This […]

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