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Category: Health and safety

These are stories about health care, environmental issues, policing, crime, the stresses of inequities — all the things that make us healthy or unhealthy in expected and unexpected ways.

Dozens of frozen bags of breast milk sit scattered on a stove.
Posted inHealth and safety

These two Charlottesville women are launching an app to help parents share excess breast milk as baby formula supplies fall dangerously low

by Tamica Jean-Charles June 14, 2022August 5, 2022

Set to launch in the coming weeks, The Drop allows parents who have extra breast milk to share it with parents and babies in need.

A man sits in the fold-down seat of his metal walker in front of a red door that a Christian icon of the Virgin Mary, the Baby Jesus, and Saint Joseph. There are windows on either side. He wears a camouflage hat, wire-rimmed aviator-style eyeglasses, some stubble on his cheeks and chin, a T-shirt, camouflage cargo pants and Crocs shoes. His knuckles, which face the camera, are tattooed with his name, “Phil.”
Posted inOur neighborhoods

When this Charlottesville shelter closes next year, its 100 elderly and seriously ill guests might have nowhere to go

by Erin O'Hare June 7, 2022August 5, 2022

“If it weren’t for Premier Circle, I’d be homeless,” said Sunshades, a shelter guest.

A mother, smiling in a yellow blouse sitting on a park picnic table, holds her baby with a stroller on the edge of the image.
Posted inHealth and safety

Local stores struggle to stock baby formula amid a national shortage, leaving parents to search for formulas that work for their infants

by Tamica Jean-Charles May 26, 2022August 5, 2022

“Breastfeeding is not free,” said Dr. Irène Mathieu, a Charlottesville pediatrician. She said that low-income parents and those who don’t get parental leave or space at work to pump breast milk are having the most difficult time.

A pool behind a chain link fence with a sign “Posted no trespassing keep out” in the foreground
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

It’s the first year all three Charlottesville city pools will be open since the pandemic began — but a lifeguard shortage is likely to reduce open hours

by Tamica Jean-Charles May 16, 2022August 3, 2022

Vic Garber, deputy director of Parks and Recreation, says he hasn’t seen a staff shortage this severe in his 10 years at the department.

A man stands at a workstation, his back to the camera, with a monitor and red phone on a gray desk. Beyond there are many bunk beds in star patterns with blue mattresses.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

An immigration detention center in Farmville built for over 700 people now has 11 — and activists say it’s time to shut it down

by Angilee Shah May 9, 2022August 5, 2022

Farmville earns $15,000 and the private company that operates the center earns $2 million per month from the federal government, even though they had a huge COVID-19 outbreak and detainees say that conditions there have been unbearable.

Women stand on the side of a street holding signs that read “Keep Abortion Legal.”
Posted inGovernment and public institutions

Charlottesville-area abortion providers brace for onslaught of out-of-state patients should Roe be overturned

by Charlotte Rene Woods and Tamica Jean-Charles May 6, 2022August 3, 2022

Virginia legislators prepare to battle over abortion rights.

The tops of trees with green and auburn leaves and a blue sky behind them
Posted inOur neighborhoods

You had questions about trees in Charlottesville. We got some answers.

by Charlotte Rene Woods May 4, 2022August 5, 2022

Here are the answers to five of the most common questions we got about our reporting on the city’s declining tree canopy.

A COVID-19 test shows a positive result, with two pink lines next to the letters “C” and “T.”
Posted inHealth and safety

We’re at the start of another COVID-19 surge — but this time, health officials expect hospitalizations will be low

by Jessie Higgins May 3, 2022August 3, 2022

“I’d like to say that, along with this lovely spring that we are having, this is part of a new beginning. But, we have been fooled before so we’ll just have to wait and see,” said Dr. Reid Adams, UVA Health’s chief medical officer.

A woman lays back after giving birth, with a blanket over her and a baby in her arms, with a man sitting behind her and child leaning in. Others surround her, faces not shown, some holding their phones or taking pictures. Photo in black and white.
Posted inHealth and safety

What does the Black birth experience in Charlottesville look like? A new photo series shows how powerful it can be.

by Tamica Jean-Charles April 18, 2022August 5, 2022

For many, having a “birth sister” can make a big difference for their health and well-being while pregnant and giving birth.

A tree and bushes sit between two rows of buildings, with a street and sidewalk in the foreground.
Posted inOur neighborhoods

Charlottesville’s tree cover has dropped about 15% since 2004 — but there are ways to bring it back

by Charlotte Rene Woods April 5, 2022August 3, 2022

“I think the idea of having places to gather and green spaces with trees will be good for me and my neighbors,” said South First Street resident Estephany Kepchar.

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