This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss what we know about the new Omicron variant and what precautions to take with multiple cases now confirmed in the U.S.
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Response to psychiatric crises
This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss how some police departments in rural Georgia are investing in crisis intervention training to better respond to mental health crises.
Live music for hospital workers
This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss how live therapeutic music is working to reduce stress for frontline workers in two northeast Georgia hospitals.
Aromatherapy spray and disease
This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss the case of a contaminated aromatherapy spray recently linked to a rare bacterial disease that caused the death of a Georgia resident.
Nurses and hospital violence
On this Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss a growing number of nurses speaking out about the increased violence they’ve faced from patients over the course of the pandemic.
Narrowing vaccination gap
This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss the factors driving a jump in Covid vaccination rates among African Americans in Georgia.
School bus drivers and Covid
This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss an alarming trend in Covid cases, and even deaths, among school bus workers in Georgia and nationwide, pushing some drivers to quit.
Kids’ Covid cases fuel surge
This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss the new infections among school-age kids that’s driving Georgia’s latest Covid surge.
Covid and stadium safety
This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News break down the risk of attending big sports events this fall as COVID cases continue to surge.
Our health reporting news
This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss a new partnership between Georgia Health News and the health reporting juggernaut Kaiser Health News to expand health care reporting in Georgia and the southern region.