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‘We're Coming For You'
For public health officials, its been a year of threats and menace.

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For public health officials, its been a year of threats and menace.

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Experts still have yet to figure out what causes the long term coronavirus side effects.
Three families reflect on the health workers they lost.
Hospitals more willing to take a chance on organ transplants to treat the coronavirus patients.
Admits PPE shortages drove up death toll.
What other places can learn from Santa Rosa’s tent city.
More than 3,600 U.S. health workers died in the first year of the coronavirus.
Nearly 56% of California seniors have received the full course of a coronavirus vaccine.
Schools powering forward with 'normal' campus life for upcoming academic year.
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