Sebastián Martínez Valdivia
Health ReporterSebastián Martínez Valdivia is a health reporter and documentary filmmaker who focuses on access to care in rural and immigrant communities. A native Spanish speaker and lifelong Missouri resident, Sebastián is interested in the often overlooked and under-covered world of immigrant life in the rural midwest. He has a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in documentary journalism at the same institution. Aside from public health, his other interests include conservation, climate change and ecology.
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Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services has launched a new site where residents can input their contact information and test results.
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Dr. Laura Hesemann sits down with the Health & Wealth Desk to provide an update on how MU Health is faring amid the omicron wave.
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The Board of Curators' decision not to require masks comes as the state experiences the worst COVID-19 infection rates it has seen since the start of the pandemic.
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The record highs in COVID infections in Boone County were not brought up during Monday night's Columbia Public Schools Board of Education meeting.
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Testing of wastewater from Jackson and Buchanan counties has revealed the presence of the highly transmissible omicron variant.
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While there are concerns about omicron's transmissibility, the amount of mutations the variant possesses make it easily detectable
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Through the first six months of 2021, nearly 800 Missourians died from opioid overdose; well over half the total number of deaths in 2020. Law enforcement and public health experts say the synthetic opioid fentanyl is largely to blame.
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An interview with Dana Farber oncologist Dr. Miranda Lam, about her research on Medicaid expansion and cancer mortality.
