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South Carolina's top public health doctor warns senators wrong lessons being learned from COVID

Mar. 14, 2024 15:04 PM EDT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top doctor came before a small group of state senators on Thursday to tell them he thinks a bill overhauling how public health emergencies are handled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has some bad ideas, concerns echoed by Gov. Henry McMaster. ...

A decade later, Liberians remember those who died in Ebola outbreak

Mar. 14, 2024 07:32 AM EDT

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberians gathered this week to mark a decade since the country was hit by a devastating Ebola outbreak that killed more than 10,000 people in West Africa, adding to the region’s economic and political troubles. The second Wednesday of March in Liberia,...