Editor’s Note: NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser recently traveled to Washington state to report on the whooping cough epidemic currently gripping many parts of the U.S. While there, she spoke with Chelsey Charles about her experience of losing a child to the disease. Listen to Chelsey’s full story in the video above. Below, Betty Ann reflects on the interview.
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It’s still optimal golf weather — 70 degrees with a light breeze — but at the Farragut Salt Dome in Northeast Washington, preparations are well underway for winter. Trucks have been inspected and cleaned, reserve tanks are filled, and a liquid concoction is churning through a network of tubes.
Inside a shed at the 18,000-ton-capacity dome, Cornelious E. Phillips touches a small button, triggering a flow of silty liquid through the tubes. Read More...
Explore More Early in the pandemic, Roman Wexler and his wife and young daughter were shopping for a puppy. They were initially looking for a schnauzer, but then his daughter discovered an exotic, mystical creature online: a French bulldog with hair that was long and fluffy and coloring that was a mottled pattern, known as merle, in soft pink-tan and blue-gray shades.
“We didn’t even know this option existed,” recalled Wexler, a 52-year-old medi-spa owner who lives on the Upper East Side. Read More...